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Satoru Iwata wrote messages to employees before passing away


Last year the whole gaming world was in shock when Satoru Iwata passed away. He's touched the hearts of many gamers and even on gamers!

Since the release of Pokemon Go,many Niantic developers revealed that Iwata worked and gave advice from his hospital bed! Now some more information has been revealed thanks to the latest issue of Toyo Keizai which has a nintendo feature.

It seems he wrote many messages to various types of employees such as advice,what he learned from his life,fond memories and of course personal matters. According to one employee,the way Iwata wrote the messages seemed like he knew he was going to pass away soon.

Satoru Iwata passed away last year on July 11, 2015 from complications of a bile duct tumor


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