Iwata Asks [lower-alpha 1] is a series of interviews conducted by former Nintendo president and chief executive officer (CEO) Satoru Iwata from 2006 until his death in 2015. In these interview articles, Iwata discusses with various colleagues select details about Nintendo and other developers' video game titles, hardware, and various aspects of the company. [1] The discussions reveal historical background information on the development of games and hardware as well as the mindset of the creators at the time. Additionally, these interviews often showcase the friendly camaraderie between Iwata and other members of Nintendo as jokes and laughter are shown to be commonplace. [2] They proved to be one of the most insightful collections of information on the development of Nintendo products available. [3] Time 's Matt Peckham referred to Iwata Asks as "a remarkable series" and "a Nintendophile's dream come true." [4]
Content from Iwata Asks was featured in a book titled Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Satoru Iwata, published by Hobonichi. [5] The book was first published in 2019 in Japan. An English translation was released in 2021. [6]
Topic | Date [nb 1] | Interviewee(s) | Title/Volume | English Localization | Source |
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Wii | September 9, 2006 | Genyo Takeda, Junji Takamoto, Kenichiro Ashida, Kou Shiota | Wii console | [8] [9] | |
September 11, 2006 | Genyo Takeda, Shigeru Miyamoto, Kenichiro Ashida, Akio Ikeda | Wii Remote | [10] [11] | ||
September 14, 2006 | Takashi Aoyama, Tomoaki Kuroume, Kenichiro Ashida | Wii Channels | [12] [13] | ||
October 12, 2006 | Katsuya Eguchi, Keizo Ota, Yoshikazu Yamashita, Takayuki Shimamura | Wii Sports | [14] [15] | ||
October 26, 2006 | Yoshiyuki Oyama, Keisuke Nishimori, Koji Kitagawa, Atsushi Miyagi, Kentaro Tominaga, Aya Kyogoku | The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | [16] [17] | ||
November 22, 2006 | Yoshio Sakamoto, Goro Abe | Wario Ware: Smooth Moves | [18] [19] | ||
Super Mario Galaxy | October 4, 2007 | Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takao Shimizu | The Producer and Director | [20] [21] | |
Kenta Motokura, Futoshi Shirai, Norihiro Aoyagi, Hideaki Shimizu, Koichi Hayashida | The Developers | [22] | |||
Masafumi Kawamura, Mahito Yokota, Koji Kondo | The Sound Team | [23] | |||
Shigeru Miyamoto | Shigeru Miyamoto | [24] | |||
Wii Fit | November 8, 2007 | Shigeru Miyamoto | A New Creation | [25] [26] | |
Takeshi Nagareda, Takao Sawano | The Wii Balance Board | [27] | |||
Hiroshi Matsunaga, Tadashi Sugiyama | The Wii Fit Software | [28] | |||
Arisa Hosaka, Mari Shibata, Yoshiyuki Oyama, Yohei Miyagawa, Toru Minegishi | Sound, Design and Planning | [29] | |||
Super Smash Bros. Brawl | January 30, 2008 | Masahiro Sakurai | E3 2005: A Beginning | [30] [31] | |
For First-time Gamers | [32] | ||||
Versus, Co-op and Share | [33] | ||||
The Subspace Emissary | [34] | ||||
Plethora of New Features | [35] | ||||
All-star Music | [36] | ||||
Once in a Lifetime Experience | [37] | ||||
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption | February 29, 2008 | Risa Tabata, Kensuke Tanabe | — | [38] | |
Mario Kart Wii | April 3, 2008 | Shigeru Miyamoto, Kenichiro Ashida, Hideki Konno | — | [39] [40] | |
Link's Crossbow Training | April 24, 2008 | Shigeru Miyamoto | — | [41] [42] | |
Wii Music | September 25, 2008 | Shigeru Miyamoto | Shigeru Miyamoto | [43] [44] | |
Makoto Wada, Junji Morii, Kazumi Totaka | The Developers | [45] | |||
Kazumi Totaka, Koji Kondo, Shigeru Miyamoto | [46] | ||||
Animal Crossing: City Folk | November 13, 2008 | Aya Kyogoku, Ryuji Kobayashi, Isao Moro, Hisashi Nogami | — | [47] [48] | |
Wii MotionPlus | May 18, 2009 | Keizo Ota, Kuniaki Ito, Noboru Wakitani, Junji Takamoto | — | [49] [50] | |
Wii Sports Resort | June 4, 2009 | Yoshikazu Yamashita, Takayuki Shimamura, Takuhiro Dohta, Kenta Sato | — | [51] [52] | |
Punch-Out!! | July 13, 2009 | Makoto Wada, Kensuke Tanabe, Shigeru Miyamoto, Genyo Takeda | — | [53] [54] | |
Monster Hunter Tri | July 30, 2009 | Kaname Fujioka, Ryozo Tsujimoto | — | [55] [56] | |
Wii Fit Plus | September 29, 2009 | Dr. Motohiko Miyachi | Volume 1 | [57] [58] | |
Volume 2 | [59] | ||||
Sin & Punishment: Star Successor | October 22, 2009 | Shingo Matsushita, Yurie Hattori, Hitoshi Yamagami, Masato Maegawa, Atsutomo Nakagawa, Yasushi Suzuki | — | [60] [61] | |
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers | November 6, 2009 | Akitoshi Kawazu | — | [62] | |
New Super Mario Bros. Wii | November 13, 2009 | Shigeru Miyamoto | Volume 1 | [63] [64] | |
Toshihiko Nakago, Takashi Tezuka | Volume 2 | [65] | |||
Sanae Uchida, Eiji Mukae, Takayuki Ikkaku, Shigeyuki Asuke | Volume 3 | [66] | |||
Wii no Ma | November 20, 2009 | Yusuke Beppu, Masaaki Yukawa, Yoshihiro Suzuki, Tony Ellison | — | [67] | |
NHK Kōhaku Quiz Gassen | December 25, 2009 | Kenji Suzuki | — | [68] | |
Zangeki no Reginleiv | February 4, 2010 | Kenji Suzuki, Takehiro Honma, Masatsugu Igarashi, Toshio Noguchi, Kazuhiro Yoshikawa | — | [69] | |
And-Kensaku | April 22, 2010 | Tsuyoshi Kan | — | [70] | |
Super Mario Galaxy 2 | May 11, 2010 | Shigeru Miyamoto | Volume 1 | [71] [72] | |
Kenta Motokura, Takeshi Hayakawa (mistranslated as Kenzo Hayakawa), Kōichi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Koizumi | Volume 2 | [73] | |||
Ryo Nagamatsu, Mahito Yokota, Koji Kondo | Volume 3 | [74] | |||
Xenoblade Chronicles | May 19, 2010 | Tetsuya Takahashi, Yoko Shimomura, Yasunori Mitsuda, Manami Kiyota, ACE+ (Chico), Tomori Kudo, Kenji Hiramatsu | Sound | [75] [76] | |
Tetsuya Takahashi, Yuichiro Takeda | Story | [77] | |||
Yurie Hattori, Genki Yokota, Hitoshi Yamagami, Koh Kojima, Tetsuya Takahashi | The Development Process | [78] | |||
Metroid: Other M | July 29, 2010 | Ryuzi Kitaura, Yosuke Hayashi, Yoshio Sakamoto | The Collaboration | [79] [80] | |
Takehiko Hosokawa, Takayasu Morisawa, Hidekatsu Nagasawa, Yutaka Saito, Taiyo Aramaki, Kazutaka Otsuka, Ryo Koike | Development Staff | [81] | |||
Wii Party | August 5, 2010 | Hiroshi Sato, Miyuki Hirose, Shuichiro Nishiya, Atsushi Ikeda | — | [82] [83] | |
The Last Story | August 17, 2010 | Hironobu Sakaguchi | — | [84] [85] | |
Kirby's Epic Yarn | October 7, 2010 | Emi Watanabe, Nobuo Matsumiya, Atsushi Kono, Kentaro Sei, Etsunobu Ebisu | — | [86] [87] | |
Super Mario All-Stars | October 21, 2010 | Ryo Nagamatsu, Mahito Yokota, Koji Kondo | The Music | [88] [89] | |
Naoki Mori, Tadashi Sugiyama | The Developers | [90] | |||
Donkey Kong Country Returns | December 1, 2010 | Kynan Pearson, Mike Wikan, Tom Ivey, Kensuke Tanabe, Risa Tabata | — | [91] [92] | |
Pandora's Tower | May 23, 2011 | Chikako Yamakura, Toru Hoga, Hirofumi Irie, Takao Nakano, Hitoshi Yamagami | — | [93] [94] | |
Wii Play: Motion | June 30, 2011 | Toyokazu Nonaka, Etsunobu Ebisu, Yuichi Mizobe, Hirosato Funaki, Ryusuke Niitani, Takehiko Hosokawa, Keita Eto, Jun Taniguchi, Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, Shinya Takahashi | — | [95] [96] | |
Rhythm Heaven Fever | July 20, 2011 | Takafumi Masaoka, Masami Tone, Ko Takeuchi, Mitsuo Terada, Koji Kamada, Hiroshi Iida | — | [97] [98] | |
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword | October 18, 2011 | Eiji Aonuma, Hidemaro Fujibayashi, Ryuji Kobayashi, Ryo Tanaka | Wii MotionPlus Inspires New Controls | [99] [100] | |
Haruyasu Ito, Yutaka Hiramuki, Shigeyuki Asuke, Hidemaro Fujibayashi | The Dense Forest | [101] | |||
Yoshiyuki Oyama, Takafumi Kiuchi, Kentaro Tominaga, Hidemaro Fujibayashi | The Dense Volcano and Enemy Monsters | [102] | |||
Koji Kitagawa, Yohei Fujino, Hiromu Takemura, Hidemaro Fujibayashi | The Dense Desert and New System | [103] | |||
Masato Mizuta, Hanako Hisada, Daiki Iwamoto, Eiji Aonuma, Hidemaro Fujibayashi | The Dense Sky and Town | [104] | |||
Shigeki Yoshida, Hajime Yakai, Naoki Mori, Hidemaro Fujibayashi, Eiji Aonuma | The Dense Script and Direction | [105] | |||
Hanako Hisada, Tomomi Marunami, Tomomi Iwasaki, Akiko Hirono, Arisa Hosaka | Female Staff | [106] | |||
Eiji Aonuma | Those Who Played The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for Hundreds of Hours | [107] | |||
Go Vacation | October 20, 2011 | Masaya Kobayashi, Yozo Sakagami | — | [108] [109] | |
Kirby's Return to Dream Land | October 21, 2011 | Shigefumi Kawase, Shinya Kumazaki, Hiroaki Nakano, Tadashi Kimitake | — | [110] [111] | |
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games | December 6, 2011 | Emi Watanabe, Tomoyoshi Yamane, Eigo Kasahara, Osamu Ohashi | — | [112] [113] | |
Kiki Trick | December 27, 2011 | Noriyuki Sato, Yoshio Sakamoto, Shinichi Sakamoto | — | [114] | |
Project Zero 2: Wii Edition | April 5, 2012 | Keisuke Kikuchi, Makoto Shibata | — | [115] [116] | |
Dragon Quest X | July 23, 2012 | Jin Fujisawa, Yosuke Saito, Yuji Horii | — | [117] | |
Topic | Date [nb 1] | Interviewee(s) | Title/Volume | English localization | Source |
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Jam with the Band | June 11, 2008 | Shinji Kitahara, Noriko Kitamura, Koichi Kyuma | Volume 1 | [118] [119] | |
September 2008 | Masaru Nishita, Noriko Kitamura | Volume 2 | [120] [121] | ||
Rhythm Heaven | July 11, 2008 | Kyohei Seki, Takafumi Masaoka, Masami Yone, Ko Takeuchi, Kazuyoshi Osawa | [122] | ||
Tsunku | [123] | ||||
Style Savvy | October 17, 2008 | Norihito Ito, Yurie Hattori, Hitoshi Yamagami, Azusa Tajima | — | [124] | |
Nintendo DSi console | October 24, 2008 | Yui Ehara, Kentaro Mita, Masato Kuwahara | Hardware | [125] | |
Shigeru Miyamoto, Yusuke Akifusa, Masahiro Imaizumi, Yoshihiro Matsushima, Tomoaki Kuroume | Internal Software | [126] | |||
Satoshi Furukawa, Eiichi Shirakawa, Shinya Takahashi | Browser | [127] | |||
Taku Sugioka, Naoko Mori, Goro Abe | Wario Ware: Snapped! | [128] | |||
Koichi Kawamoto, Shinya Takahashi | Brain Age Express | [129] | |||
Hideaki Shimizu, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Junya Kondo, Yeppei Ninomiya | Flipnote Studio | [130] | |||
Yoichi Kotabe, Shigeru Miyamoto, Yoshiaki Koizumi | Yoichi Kotabe | [131] | |||
Personal Trainer: Walking | October 27, 2008 | Masaru Shimomura, Kiyoshi Mizuki, Naoya Morimura, Noriko Akita | — | [132] [133] | |
WarioWare D.I.Y. | April 22, 2009 | Taku Sugioka, Takumi Hatakeyama, Goro Abe | — | [134] | |
Tomodachi Collection | June 11, 2009 | Masanori Nakagawa, Daisuke Shiiba, Ryutaro Takahashi | — | [135] | |
Dragon Quest IX | July 3, 2009 | Yuji Horii, Koichi Sugiyama | — | [136] | |
Mono ya Okane no Shikumi DS | August 20, 2009 | [137] | |||
[138] | |||||
Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver | September 4, 2009 | Shigeki Morimoto, Tsunekazu Ishihara | — | [139] | |
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks | November 19, 2009 | Eiji Aonuma, Daiki Iwamoto | The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks | [140] | |
Toshihiko Nakago, Takashi Tezuka, Eiji Aonuma | The History of Handheld The Legend of Zelda Games | [141] | |||
Nintendo DSi XL | December 14, 2009 | Takaki Fujino, Masaki Amano, Masato Kuwahara, Kazuo Yoneyama | — | [142] | |
Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem | July 14, 2010 | Kouhei Maeda, Masahiro Higuchi, Toru Narihiro | — | [143] | |
Pokémon Black and White | September 10, 2010 | Tsunekazu Ishihara, Junichi Masuda, Ken Sugimori | — | [144] | |
Touch de Oboeru Hyakuninisshu: Chotto DSi Shiguredono | November 17, 2010 | — | [145] | ||
Eigo de Tabisuru: Little Charo | January 19, 2011 | — | [146] | ||
Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure | April 22, 2011 | Masato Kuwahara, Daisuke Fukumoto, Masahiko Ota | [147] | ||
Manabu Yamana, Tsunekazu Ishihara, Kaori Ando | [148] | ||||
Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 | June 14, 2012 | Junichi Masuda, Takao Unno, Tsunekazu Ishihara | — | [149] | |
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon | Summer 2008 | Toru Narihiro |
Topic | Date [nb 1] | Interviewee(s) | Title/Volume | English Localization | Source |
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Nintendo 3DS | January 7, 2011 | Shigeru Miyamoto, Shigesato Itoi | And That's How the Nintendo 3DS Was Made | [150] | |
January 27, 2011 | Kenichi Sugino, Ryuji Umezu, Hideki Konno | Hardware Concept | [151] | ||
February 3, 2011 | Junichiro Miyatake, Yui Ehara, Hironori Akai, Hiroki Goto, Kazunori Koshiishi | Exterior and Mechanical Design | [152] | ||
February 8, 2011 | Hideki Konno, Shigeru Miyamoto | Nintendogs + Cats | [153] | ||
February 25, 2011 | Shigeru Miyamoto | Asking Mr. Miyamoto Right Before Release | [154] | ||
March 10, 2011 | Kiyoshi Mizuki, Toshiaki Suzuki, Kouichi Kawamoto, Yusuke Akifusa, Ryutaro Takahashi, Tomoaki Kuroume | Built-in Software | [155] | ||
Third Party Developers | February 10, 2011 | Akihiro Hino | Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask | [156] | |
February 15, 2011 | Hisashi Koinuma | Samurai Warriors: Chronicles | [157] | ||
February 17, 2011 | Shinji Enomoto | Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 for the 3DS | [158] | ||
February 22, 2011 | Yozo Sakagami | Ridge Racer 3D | [159] | ||
February 24, 2011 | Yoshinori Ono | Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition | [160] | ||
April 27, 2011 | Akari Uchida | New LovePlus | [161] | ||
May 12, 2011 | Yosuke Hayashi | Dead or Alive | [162] | ||
May 19, 2011 | Masachika Kawata | Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D Resident Evil: Revelations | [163] | ||
June 23, 2011 | Makoto Yoshizumi | Tales of the Abyss | [164] | ||
December 5, 2011 | Kaname Fujioka, Ryozo Tsujimoto | Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate | [165] | ||
January 19, 2012 | Masachika Kawata, Koshi Nakanishi, Kota Suzuki, Tsukasa Takenaka, Yoshizumi Hori | Resident Evil: Revelations | [166] | ||
February 9, 2012 | Katsuhiro Harada, Kouhei Ikeda | Tekken 3D: Prime Edition | [167] | ||
February 13, 2012 | Ichiro Hazama | Theatrhythm Final Fantasy | [168] | ||
February 28, 2012 | Hiroshi Utsumi, Motoshi Takabe, Makoto Osaki | Hatsune Miku and Future Stars: Project Mirai | [169] | ||
April 3, 2012 | Tetsuya Nomura | Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance | [170] | ||
April 26, 2012 | Kenichi Ogasawara | Shin Sangoku Musou VS | [171] | ||
May 17, 2012 | Taichi Inuzuka, Yuji Horii | Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland 3D | [172] | ||
June 12, 2012 | Daisuke Kanada, Shigeo Komori | Etrian Odyssey IV | [173] | ||
June 28, 2012 | Yoshifumi Hashimoto | Rune Factory 4 | [174] | ||
September 18, 2012 | Naotaka Hayashi, Tomoya Asano | Bravely Default | [175] | ||
October 10, 2012 | Takaharu Terada, Kazuhiro Tsuchiya, Soichiro Morizumi, Kensuke Tsukanaka | Project X Zone | [176] | ||
October 25, 2012 | Yasuhiro Anpo, Shintaro Kojima | E.X. Troopers | [177] | ||
November 22, 2012 | Shu Takumi, Akihiro Hino | Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney | [178] | ||
January 31, 2013 | Sachiko Sugimura, Shintaro Majima, Noriyoshi Fujimoto, Yuji Horii | Dragon Quest VII | [179] | ||
Steel Diver | May 10, 2011 | Giles Goddard, Takaya Imamura, Tadashi Sugiyama, Shigeru Miyamoto | — | [180] | |
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | May 26, 2011 | Mahito Yokota, Koji Kondo | Sound | [181] | |
Toshio Iwawaki, Eiji Aonuma, Takumi Kawagoe, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Toru Osawa | Original Development Staff Part 1 | [182] | |||
Kazuaki Morita, Makoto Miyanaga, Satoru Takizawa, Yoshiki Haruhana, Eiji Aonuma | Original Development Staff Part 2 | [183] | |||
Eiji Aonuma, Takao Shimizu, Nagako Ikuta, Shun Moriya, Takashi Tonooka, Koichi Ishii | Development Staff | [184] | |||
Shigeru Miyamoto | Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto | [185] | |||
Nintendo eShop | June 6, 2011 | Kenta Tanaka, Takao Nakano, Daiji Imai, Kazuto Nakaya | — | [186] | |
Star Fox 64 3D | July 5, 2011 | Mitsuhiro Takano, Tusuke Amano, Dylan Cuthbert, Shigeru Miyamoto | — | [187] | |
Pokédex 3D | August 9, 2011 | Tsunekazu Ishihara, Hiroyuki Ogasawara, Rie Takeuchi, Katsunori Orimoto | Pokédex 3D | [188] | |
Tsunekazu Ishihara, Muneaki Ozawa, Norio Matsumura | Pokémon Rumble Blast | [189] | |||
Hana to Ikimono Rittai Zukan | September 22, 2011 | Shinji Kitahara, Kanako Tsugihashi, Toshiaki Suzuki, Shinya Takahashi | — | [190] | |
Naruko Kodama, Hirotsugu Nagao, Michio Sakamura | — | [191] | |||
Mario Kart 7 | October 21, 2011 | Hideki Konno | Nintendo Direct | [192] | |
November 25, 2011 | Tom Ivey, Vince Joly, Ryan Powell, Yuji Ichijo, Masaaki Ishikawa, Yoshihisa Morimoto, Hideki Konno | Joint Development with Retro Studios | [193] | ||
Kenta Nagata, Yusuke Shiraiwa, Kosuke Yabuki, Hideki Konno | In-house Staff | [194] | |||
Super Mario 3D Land | October 27, 2011 | Daisuke Tsujimura, Hideyuki Sugawara, Kenta Motokura, Koichi Hayashida | Super Mario 3D Land | [195] | |
Koichi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takashi Tezuka, Shigeru Miyamoto | The Producers | [196] | |||
Freakyforms | Kensuke Tanabe, Hiroshi Moriyama | — | [197] | ||
Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir | December 27, 2011 | Kozo Makino, Toshiharu Izuno, Keisuke Kikuchi | — | [198] | |
Swapnote | January 26, 2012 | Yu Kitai, Daiji Imai, Motomasa Kondo, Satoshi Takenouchi | — | [199] | |
Kid Icarus: Uprising | February 22, 2012 | Masahiro Sakurai | — | [200] | |
Fire Emblem Awakening | March 21, 2012 | Tohru Narihiro, Masahiro Higuchi, Kouhei Maeda, Toshiyuki Kusakihara, Kozaki Yusuke, Genki Yokota, Hitoshi Yamagami | — | [201] | |
Culdcept | April 24, 2012 | Shinya Saito, Kohei Takeshige, Hideo Suzuki | — | [202] | |
Nintendo Pocket Football Club | May 30, 2012 | Hiroyuki Sonobe | [203] | ||
[204] | |||||
Brain Age: Concentration Training | July 18, 2012 | Dr. Ryuta Kawashima | Volume 1 | [205] | |
Yuichiro Ito, Noriko Kitamura, Kouichi Kawamoto, Shinya Takahashi | Volume 2 | [206] | |||
Nintendo 3DS XL | July 20, 2012 | Junichiro Miyatake, Kumpei Fujita, Takashi Murakami, Shoya Tanaka, Kazunori Koshiishi | — | [207] | |
New Super Mario Bros. 2 | July 24, 2012 | Masaaki Ishikawa, Yusuke Amano | — | [208] | |
HarmoKnight | August 29, 2012 | Shigeru Ohmori, James Turner, Junichi Masuda | — | [209] | |
Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone! | September 6, 2012 | Yuji Ichijo, Kaori Miyachi, Keisuke Terasaki, Jason Howard, Trancred Dyke-Wells | — | [210] | |
Style Savvy: Trendsetters | October 22, 2012 | Hiromasa Tsujii, Koji Tamura, Shun Sasaki, Yurie Hattori, Hitoshi Yamagami | — | [211] | |
Animal Crossing: New Leaf | October 31, 2012 | Koji Takahashi, Isao Moro, Aya Kyogoku | — | [212] | |
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity | November 15, 2012 | Shinichiro Tomie, Seiichiro Nagahata, Tsunekazu Ishihara | — | [213] | |
Paper Mario: Sticker Star | November 29, 2012 | Kensuke Tanabe, Shingo Igata, Naohiko Aoyama, Kenji Nakajima, Tare Kudo | — | [214] | |
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon | March 22, 2013 | Chad York, Bryce Holliday, Brian Davis, Shigeru Miyamoto, Yoshihito Ikebata | — | [215] | |
Tomodachi Life | April 11, 2013 | Mai Okamoto, Eisaku Nakae, Ryutaro Takahashi, Yoshio Sakamoto | — | [216] | |
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team | July 2, 2013 | Tomomi Sano, Akira Otani, Hiroyuki Kubota, Yoshihiko Maekawa | — | [217] | |
StreetPass Relay Points | September 6, 2013 | Masayoshi Matsuoka, Yusuke Inoue, Taisuke Kawahara, Masatoshi Yamazaki, Hideki Konno | — | [218] | |
Pokémon X and Y | October 10, 2013 | Junichi Masuda, Tsunezaku Ishihara | — | [219] | |
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds | November 19, 2013 | Koji Takahashi, Kentaro Tominaga, Shiro Mouri, Hiromasa Shikata, Eiji Aonuma | — | [220] | |
Nintendo 3DS Guide: Louvre | November 27, 2013 | Shigeru Miyamoto | — | [221] | |
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D | February 13, 2015 | Tomomi Sano, Tomohiro Yamamura, Eiji Aonuma, Mikiharu Ooiwa | — | [222] | |
Xenoblade Chronicles 3D | March 27, 2015 | Tetsuya Takahashi | — | [223] | |
Rhythm Heaven Megamix | June 11, 2015 | Tsunku | — | [224] | |
Fire Emblem Fates | June 24, 2015 | Hitoshi Yamagami, Genki Yokota, Shin Kibayashi, Kouhei Maeda, Masahiro Higuchi | — | [225] | |
Topic | Date [nb 1] | Interviewee(s) | Title/Volume | English Localization | Source |
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Wii U console | October 11, 2012 | Nobuyuki Akagi, Yasuhisa Kitano, Ko Shiota, Genyo Takeda | — | [226] | |
Wii U GamePad | October 17, 2012 | Tat Iwamoto, Masato Ibuki, Kenichi Mae, Kuniaki Ito, Toru Yamashita | — | [227] | |
Miiverse | November 7, 2012 | Junya Kondo, Kiyoshi Mizuki | The Producers | [228] | |
November 8, 2012 | Kazuyuki Motoyama, Yoshiomi Kurisu, Shunsaku Kato, Hideto Yuzawa | The Developers | [229] | ||
Internet Browser | November 9, 2012 | Munetaka Tsuda, Tetsuya Sasaki | — | [230] | |
Wii U Chat | November 12, 2012 | Fumihiko Tamiya, Atsushi Watanabe | — | [231] | |
New Super Mario Bros. U | November 16, 2012 | Shigeyuki Asuke, Daiki Iwamoto, Masataka Takemoto | — | [232] | |
ZombiU | November 27, 2012 | Gabrielle Shrager, Guillaume Brunier, Xavier Poix, Yves Guillemot | — | [233] | |
Nintendo x Wii Karaoke U | December 4, 2012 | Yurie Hattori, Hitoshi Yamagami, Kazunori Ikami, Yukio Nakatani, Yuuki Yoshimitsu | — | [234] | |
Nintendo Land | December 7, 2012 | Tsubasa Sakaguchi, Yoshikazu Yamashita, Takayuki Shimamura, Katsuya Eguchi | — | [235] | |
Nintendo TVii [nb 2] | December 11, 2012 | Yoji Kamikawa, Hirodoku Oda | — | [236] | |
Wii Street U | February 7, 2013 | Shinya Takahashi, Toshiaki Suzuki, Hiroshi Ohashi, Kei Kawai | — | [237] | |
Game & Wario | March 28, 2013 | Naoko Mori, Goro Abe, Yoshio Sakamoto | — | [238] | |
Dragon Quest X | March 29, 2013 | Jin Fujisawa, Yosuke Saito | — | [239] | |
New Super Luigi U | July 4, 2013 | Masataka Takemoto, Takashi Tezuka | — | [240] | |
The Wonderful 101 | August 11, 2013 | Hideki Kamiya | Hideki Kamiya | [241] | |
Hitoshi Yamagami, Shingo Matsushita, Atsushi Inaba, Hideki Kamiya | Development Staff | [242] | |||
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD | September 18, 2013 | Masanao Arimoto, Takuhiro Dohta, Satoru Takizawa, Daiki Iwamoto, Eiji Aonuma | — | [243] | |
Wii Sports Club | October 29, 2013 | Ryunosuke Suzuki, Kozo Makino, Takayuki Shimamura | — | [244] | |
Super Mario 3D World | November 14, 2013 | Yoshiaki Koizumi, Koichi Hayashida, Kenta Motokura, Shigeru Miyamoto | — | [245] | |
Fit Meter | December 6, 2013 | Yugo Hayashi, Hiroshi Matsunaga, Tadashi Sugiyama, Tadaharu Kitado, Nozomu Tooyama | — | [246] | |
Xenoblade Chronicles X | April 28, 2015 | Genki Yokota, Koh Kojima, Kazuho Hyodo, Yuichiro Takeda, Tetsuya Takahashi | — | [247] | |
Splatoon | May 21, 2015 | Shintaro Sato, Seita Inoue, Tsubasa Sakaguchi, Yusuke Amano, Hisashi Nogami | — | [248] | |
Topic | Date [nb 1] | Interviewer(s) | Interviewee(s) | Title/Volume | English localization | Source |
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Iwata Asks | October 5, 2006 | Yasuhiro Nagata | Satoru Iwata | Turning the Tables: Asking Iwata | [249] [250] | |
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon | August 1, 2008 | Masahiro Sakurai | Toru Narihiro | — | [251] | |
Nintendo DSi | Yasuhiro Nagata | Satoru Iwata | Turning the Tables: Asking Iwata | [252] | ||
Game & Watch | April 15, 2010 | Satoru Iwata | Masao Yamamoto, Makoto Kano, Takehiro Izushi | — | [253] | |
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection | October 15, 2008 | Satoru Iwata | Takashi Aoyama, Yosuke Hatayama, Kazuhiro Fujiwara | — | [254] | |
Game Seminar 2008 | January 26, 2009 | Satoru Iwata | Katsuya Eguchi, Hisashi Nogami | Animal Crossing | [255] | |
Game Seminar 2009 | January 15, 2010 | Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto | Takahashi Ryutaro, Mai Okamoto, Asuka Ito, Hatahan Umino | Tomodachi Collection | [256] | |
Wii · DS software you are looking Guide | January 22, 2010 | Satoru Iwata | Shinji Hatano, Toshiro Takeuchi, Yuko Oda, Yuzuru Sakai | — | [257] | |
E3 2010 | June 16, 2010 | Satoru Iwata | Shigeru Miyamoto | Nintendo 3DS | [258] [259] | |
Hideki Konno | [258] [260] | |||||
Masahiro Sakurai | Kid Icarus: Uprising | [258] [261] | ||||
Hideki Konno | Nintendogs + Cats | [258] [262] | ||||
Eiji Aonuma, Shigeru Miyamoto | The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword | [258] | ||||
Warren Spector | Epic Mickey | [258] | ||||
June 17, 2010 | Kensuke Tanabe | Donkey Kong Country Returns | [258] | |||
Wii Games | August 26, 2010 | Satoru Iwata | Hironobu Sakaguchi, Yoshio Sakamoto | Hironobu Sakaguchi × Yoshio Sakamoto | [263] [264] | |
Super Mario 25th Anniversary | September 13, 2010 | Shigesato Itoi | Shigeru Miyamoto | Shigesato Itoi Asks in Place of Iwata | [265] [266] | |
Satoru Iwata | Masayuki Uemura, Hiroshi Imanishi | NES & Mario | [267] | |||
Yoshiaki Koizumi, Hiroyuki Kimura, Hideki Konno, Katsuya Eguchi | Super Mario Developers | [268] | ||||
Shiho Fujii, Ryuhei Matsuura, Keiichiro Yoshida, Sayaka Nishimura, Yusuke Amano | Super Mario Developers 2 | [269] | ||||
Toshihiko Nakago, Koji Kondo, Yakashi Tezuka, Shigeru Miyamoto | Original Super Mario Developers | [270] | ||||
Game development | January 25, 2011 | Satoru Iwata | Hironobu Sakaguchi, Tetsuya Takahashi | In Conversation with Takahashi & Sakaguchi | [271] [272] | |
The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary | November 10, 2011 | Satoru Iwata | Shigesato Itoi, Shigeru Miyamoto | Creative Small Talk | [273] | |
Wii U | June 8, 2011 | Satoru Iwata | Shigeru Miyamoto | E3 2011: Wii U | [274] | |
Nintendo TVii [nb 3] | December 20, 2012 | Reggie Fils-Aimé | Zach Fountain, Masaki Okahata, Brad Pelo | Reggie Asks | [275] | |
PlatinumGames | January 25, 2013 | Satoru Iwata | Atsushi Inaba, Tatsuya Minami | — | [276] [277] | |
Nintendo European Research & Development | May 21, 2013 | Satoru Iwata | Jérôme Larrieu, Alexandre Delattre | — | [278] | |
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