Keza MacDonald

He was a wonderful game journalist.

He'd interview all the developers about what they were doing and why.

And it's a treasure trove of like insight into how Nintendo works and what they're trying to do.

And like,

I thought that Iwata would have probably preferred them to continue being more open, but it's kind of closed down quite a lot since he passed away and the new presidents took over.

They weren't thrilled, I have to say, about...

They weren't exactly delighted.

They weren't like, oh, fantastic.

Let's get Miyamoto on the line right now.

You know, it wasn't like that.

I did manage to get a good sit down with Miyamoto for the book, but it took a year and a half to organize, like a full year and a half.

And then it was one of those situations where it wasn't going to happen.

It wasn't going to happen.

It was going to happen.

No, it's not going to happen.

And I'd kind of given up on it.

And then I got a phone call that's like, it's happening next week.

Fly, fly, get on the plane right now.

So yeah, and I would have really liked to be able to, because a lot of the interviews in the book are from like a little bit further back in my career.

So maybe from, you know, three, four, five, even 10 or 15 years ago, some of them, I really would have liked to be able to speak again to some of the people that I spoke to back in the day.