Now that I am a little better off to run of what I have been holding in for the past few days, I just want to put out a couple things about this subject. First off, its hard to blog about something so devastating as this. Since the Wii went out, I have not really even been a Nintendo fan, the Wii U just never really caught my eye, and didn't have any kind of games that I wanted to play with the exception of its usual exclusives such as: Mario, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Zelda...ect. The third party games dropped out, the controller is unattractive to your typical hardcore, or semi-hardcore gamer, and the price for what they offer on the Console Bundles is unreasonable to me....sorry but its true. So Nintendo hasn't really even played an important gaming factor in my life for at least the last 2 years. Yet all of a sudden, President Iwata-San passes at an early age (God rest his soul, and nothing but the deepest sympathies to his family) of 55, and I felt like a part of my gaming life just died...I didn't really even know this man, barely heard about him in all the time I have spent as a gamer/gamer informative, yet the urge to fight back the toughest sadness still hits me whenever I think about it. I feel like someone I knew personally and as close as a family member has just been ripped away from me and can barely stand it. I know that some people are not affected by this, but I know as well that thousands if not millions more people like me, feel the same way. How can you feel this way about a total stranger? About someone you've never met? About someone that is a non-factor in your daily life? Well I'm not the most spiritual person in the world but I can tell you how. I believe in great passions, and behind them passions is a burning soul that I believe lives in everyone one that shares that same passion. Whether your passion may be about Art, Music, Reading, or Video Games, there are people out there, that have the same passion, the same desire to love the same thing that you do. And if that passion is corrupted, broken, hurt, ripped, or changed in anyway, we all feel it. And something as passionate, and as devastating as Mr. Iwata-San passing, has made us all feel a little incomplete. The Video Game World lost one of its best, whether everyone realizes it or acknowledges it or not. The industry will have less emotion, less guidance, and less passion for some time. I just want to say ''Thank You Iwata-San, for everything that you gave to the Video Game Universe. You gave it everything you had, your mind, your heart, and your soul, and we ''The Gamers'' are eternally grateful! I hope wherever you are, and whatever you are doing, you have a Nintendo Controller in your hand and you are smiling! You will be forever missed, but never forgotten. Whenever I played Nintendo for now on, I will be thinking about you. Rest in piece.
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