Flashback: Satoru Iwata's 2004 Comments On Nintendo DS

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Stephen Totilo recently found an old interview tape from 2004 in which he interviewed Nintendo's Satoru Iwata about the upcoming Nintendo DS and how Sony's new PlayStation Portable seemed poised to steal away the handheld gaming market from the world of Game Boy products. Totilo has published the recovered audio and transcribed some of the more interesting parts of the interview for us to enjoy. I know hindsight is always 20/20, but I found this to be an interesting window into Iwata's thoughts at a critical fork in the road for the company. He had a lot to say about...