Do your best, and then die.

These words are difficult to use, and few people can do it, but in Jester's cognition, Iwata Satoshi is definitely worthy of such a title.

He is the second president of the company to die of illness at the job since the birth of video games, the previous one was the legendary president of the Sega dynasty at the end of the Ogawa Ko, the successor of Hayao Nakayama, and Hayao Nakayama's best friend and partner, when Sega was already in the autumn of life and death, and Okawa Ko directly donated all his personal assets, a full 85 billion yen, to Sega, which avoided the fate of Sega's collapse.

A perfect interpretation of Okawa Gong's famous words that testify to his life.

"The cause is only a generational thing, and what you get from the cause must be re-invested in the cause."

And Iwata Satoshi's life is not as brilliant and glorious as Okawa Gong, nor is it as fierce as Okawa Gong's donation of property before his death, and when Nintendo died of illness, he had already broken away from the desperate situation when he first took over, and his career was thriving, and the financial report finally changed from a deficit to a sunspot.

However, his life can still be summed up in four words, he re-established Nintendo's confidence, and he led Nintendo to become a giant in the industry again.

This is all when Yamauchi Pu handed over the position of president to him, people from the outside world could not have thought of it at all, and people at that time were echoing it, Nintendo, must be like Sega to completely decline, and in the future game industry, there will only be two giants left, Microsoft and Sony.

Even, in the later Peter . Moore also said something like this in an interview.

Peter. Moore was the head of Microsoft's XBOX division at the time, and it can be said that the XBOX brand was created by him.

"We only had Sony in our eyes at the time, we only had the PS3, and Nintendo wasn't in our minds at all," he said. None of us thought that Nintendo could be our opponent, and none of Lenovo thought so. ”

However, it was Satoshi Iwata who launched the WII. NDS was launched, which revolutionized the industry.

THE SALES OF WII IN THE EARLY AND MIDDLE STAGES HAVE EXPLODED ALL THE WAY, AND THE COMBINED SALES OF XBOX AND PS3 CANNOT CATCH UP WITH WII. EVEN, AT THE END OF THE PS3, XBOX, AND WII GENERATION CONSOLES, AND WHEN THE NEXT-GENERATION CONSOLES WERE RELEASED, THE TOTAL SALES OF WII WERE STILL THE FIRST OF THE THREE, AND EVEN FAR EXCEEDED THE OTHER TWO CONSOLES.

Just when Jester was reminiscing about Satoshi Iwata's past and life in his heart before meeting, Satoshi Iwata also sat in the car with some trepidation and went to the restaurant where he met Jester.

He was a little nervous at this time.

Because what he's about to meet is, after all, the best designers in the industry. Moreover, it is also one of his favorite designers, he has learned a lot from Jester's countless games, it can be said that Jester is his teacher on the road of game design, in the past, Jester can only be a character he looks up to, but now, he can see it himself.

Say not nervous. If you don't get excited, that's impossible.

In a separate private room in the dining room, Satoshi Iwata met Jester who stood up to greet him. Plum.

As young as he had seen in the photos before, if I remember correctly. He should have just been twenty-five years old this year, and he was only twenty-five years old, and he already had such achievements, is this the kind of real genius he is talking about?

"Mr. Iwata, I've heard your name for a long time. It's a bit rude to have the opportunity to meet you today. Jester's tone was very polite, which made Iwata Satoshi a little flattered, and he even had some questions, why did Jester hear his name back? He's just a nobody.

After Satoshi Iwata, who was a little frightened, took his seat, he was still a little nervous from his expression.

And Jester has experienced a lot of conversations, he knows how to better adjust the atmosphere, to be honest, the Iwata Satoshi in his impression, or twenty years later, is always dressed in a straight suit, but he likes to have fun with players, often makes some funny expressions, and even often likes to use the words of the players at night to complain about his own cute Nintendo president.

Now when a young Iwata Satoshi with a pair of old-fashioned black-rimmed glasses, parted hair, and even a handsome face appeared in front of Jester, he almost screamed in shock, but fortunately, Jester's control was already relatively good, and no one saw anything special.

Jester smiled.

"Mr. Isota, don't be nervous."

He first used this sentence as the opening line of his next sentence to make Satoshi Iwata not so nervous, and then continued: "Maybe Mr. Iwata will wonder why I invited you to GDC, right?" ”

Hearing Jester say this, Satoshi Iwata really didn't think much of it, so he nodded.

This is indeed his biggest question in this period of time.

"It's actually very simple, because you're a very talented game developer, very talented, I've seen the game to be developed, and then I'm very interested in the designer who can develop Balloon Wars, so I asked people to collect information about this game, and that's when I know your name, and in the information, I also found out that you are still the main program of the American version of Dragon Quest? For the first time, I know that you're also involved in the development of this game......"

Jester's homely way of chatting also made Satoshi Iwata completely relaxed.

He continued as Jester spoke.

"It's just that Nintendo represented the distribution of "Dragon Quest" at that time, and the American version needed to be remade, but there were not enough people on the Enix side, and I had just joined the HAL Research Institute at the time, because I was good at 6502 compilation, so I was asked to go to ......."

Satoshi Iwata said it modestly, and he didn't think it was a great thing.

However, Jester shook his head after hearing him say this, he looked at Satoshi Iwata, and said very seriously: "This is not such a simple thing as you said, as far as I know, he has only joined HAL for three years at that time, but Enix and Nintendo, dare you to be in charge of the program of the American version of the game that they attach so much importance to, if it is really just a very ordinary thing as you said, then the HAL Research Institute is really rampant." ”

Satoshi Iwata was embarrassed to say this.

However, let him directly say that he was the best 6502 assembly language programmer at the HAL Institute at that time, according to his modest character, it is still unlikely.

"I know you Japanese like to be modest, but sometimes, excessive modesty is not a good thing, Iwata, I think what you need most is not to be overly modest, to be confident, and, from some of the information I have collected about you, when you are in the graduate school, you are not so modest, right?"

Jester said with a laugh.

This makes Iwata Satoshi a little unclear, and what he usually does when he works at the HAL Research Institute is also like now.

"One of the things that I hear you often say is that as a programmer, you can't say I can't do it, and if you say I can't do it, then you really can't do it...... Is it true? ”

Jester laughed when he said that.

And Iwata Satoshi's expression also became a little embarrassed, he nodded: "Yes, I do often use this sentence to motivate myself, I think as a programmer, there are so many things to face every day, so difficult, if you can't have a fearless mentality, then maybe, what you can do with a little effort, you will be given up directly, and you will never be able to do it......"

Jester and Satoshi Iwata chatted quickly, and they could be said to have a good conversation, and even the two of them didn't eat a few bites of the delicious food that was constantly served by the waiters.

It was nearly nine o'clock, and it was almost time for the end of this meeting.

Jester asked a question seemingly casually: "Iwata, I heard that HAL, will be disbanded in a while, do you have any plans for where you want to work next?" ”

And Iwata Satoshi didn't doubt him, he shook his head and replied casually.

"No, I've been worried about this recently, I'm very fond of the atmosphere of the HAL Institute, after all, I've been here for seven years, and I've long been used to it, and I'm really going to leave, I'm still a little reluctant, but there's no way, after all, I still have to eat to support my family, I plan to go back this time, just like a few game companies to submit a resume, I think according to some of my previous achievements, I should be able to apply for a job as a programmer."

Although he said this, it could be heard from Satoshi Iwata's tone that he was a little sad, and he didn't know if it was for the HAL Research Institute, which was about to close, or because he didn't know a clear future.

Then, instead of answering immediately, Jester fell silent.

Five seconds later, Jester tapped a finger on the table, and then said to Satoshi Iwata, "Iwata, I have a building, I wonder if you would like to hear it?" ”

"President Li, why am I unwilling to listen?" For Jester's question, Satoshi Iwata could only smile bitterly.

All right. “

Jester nodded.

"My advice is actually very simple, and I hope you will continue to stay at the HAL Institute." (To be continued.) )xh118R1052