Beloved former President of NintendoSatoru Iwatasaid many sound and memorable things throughout his career , but thanks to a reuploaded and remastered Kikizo audience from E3 2004 , we have even more .

The video , which was uploaded by Kiziko founder Adam Doree over the weekend , is now watchable in 1440p at 60 frame per second . fit in to the Kikizo archive , the original video was posted in an astounding 320 - by-240 resolve , so the quality upgrades alone make it worth watching .

While his remark on the State Department of the picture biz industriousness at the time are n’t new , they feel almost prophetic in 2024 , where most of his forecasting about the console table market have get unfeigned . For instance , when talk about the then upcomingNintendo DSand the Wii ( which was called the Revolution at the time ) , he articulate that Nintendo ’s posture are about institution . This , he contribute , would separate Nintendo consoles from competitors like PlayStation and Xbox .

“ I do n’t consider the next - propagation consoles that Sony and Microsoft are considering have a future . If I thought so , we would be doing the same thing , right ? ” Iwata aver , according to subtitle on the picture . “ Even if I had a simple machine with 10 clock time the processing exponent and 20 fourth dimension the graphics , the work would be harder , and I do n’t think it ’s that soft to make customer clearly acknowledge the difference . ”

“ When other company free products that are improvements on subsist ones , the question is whether Nintendo can loose something that can be called revolutionary . In this way , our goal is for our challenge to bear fruit , and I believe that is what we should be doing , ” he continues .

He did n’t have much to say about the Wii , which was still in development and would n’t be unwrap until the following class , but he noted : “ Just as Nintendo surprised people with the DS , if we were to create new hardware after the GameCube , I believe there ’s no gunpoint in making it unless it ’s something that will surprise citizenry . That ’s all I can say today . ”

The jury is out on whether Xbox and PlayStation do n’t have a time to come in console , but the number speak for themselves . The Switch has sold over 140 million unitsas of February 2024 , despite getting released in 2017 , and is working on a follow - up . While Microsoft and Sony are still in the console game , the former is focusing a lot of its efforts on cloud gaming andXbox Game Pass , while the latter isstretching out onto PC for its first - party titles . Nintendo has also become roll in the hay for its innovational consoles that do n’t necessarily chase graphics and frame rates .

The interview also feature previously never - before - run across footage . In one subdivision , Iwata misunderstands a head and talks more about his predecessor , Hiroshi Yamauchi , alternatively of shifting gears to Shigeru Miyamoto , who had have on newfangled responsibilities at the company and was center more on develop plot . While Iwata name Yamauchi in the original audience , he go more into how the former head of Nintendo inspired him .

“ I have heard a lot from him in the past about his philosophy on how the gaming industry should change , and I stand for to inherit that doctrine as it is , if it ’s good , ” Iwata say . “ And he himself enjoin that we take to vary with the time , and I also intend to inherit that . ”

Iwata pass in 2015 due to complications from a tumour at the age of 55 . He had been the president of Nintendo from 2002 until his destruction .