During the 2015 Game Awards, executive producer Geoff Keighley took some time out to hold a moment of remembrance for the late Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata. The six minute segment featured a short eulogy from Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aime.
You can see the six minute segment, just before the on-stage performance begins, by checking it out courtesy of Kotaku's YouTube channel.
Keighley opened the segment by talking about his very last meeting with Satoru Iwata. He mentions that despite his worsening health that Iwata never let Keighley know just how ill he really was, and that in spite of his condition that Iwata still managed to put on a smile.
A short video package plays showing Iwata and his legacy at Nintendo, as well as his very popular Nintendo Direct videos that were oftentimes played for very dry laughs.
The video package tribute to Iwata is just under two minutes and then it cuts back to Geoff who introduces Nintendo of America's president Reggie Fils-Aime to the stage.
Reggie spends just three minutes eulogizing the late CEO and global president of Nintendo, talking about how out of the entire history of game consoles and platforms, Iwata was responsible for bringing three out of the five platforms to market that sold over 100 million SKUs. That's a very impressive feat to have on one's resume.
One of those hundred-million-selling platforms was the highly doubted but very successful Wii. While the name of the console was ridiculed and the idea of motion controls seemed ludicrous at the time, back in 2006 Satoru Iwata and the rest of Nintendo managed to bring the Wii to the market with startling success.
Iwata also managed to help get popular devices like the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS up and out to the general public, where they once again received a lot of criticism for their features but went on to sale millions of units, and even continue to sell even to this day.
Reggie praised the late Nintendo executive not only for his foresight and confidence in a wildly unpredictable market, but also talked up Iwata's ability to help design games on the software level, help understand and iterate consoles on a hardware level, and help push the product out to the public on a marketing level.
The tribute was handled well during the Game Awards and it was noted as being one of the highlights of the show.
A number of games walked away with deserving awards, including The Witcher 3, which managed to become The Game of The Year. But it was nice that they took time out to honor the untimely death of Satoru Iwata that occurred earlier this year.
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