Shintaro Sato

Shintaro Sato is a program director at Nintendo. He joined in 2008 in EAD. He created the first concept for Splatoon which involved tofu blocks inking turf.

Known Works

 * Wii Music (Wii, 2008) - Programming
 * New Super Mario Bros. U (Wii U, 2012) - System programming
 * New Super Luigi U (Wii U, 2013) - System programming
 * (Wii U, 2015) - Programming (program director)
 * (Nintendo Switch, 2017) - Directer (program director)
 * Octo Expansion (Nintendo Switch, 2018) - Director (program director)


 * (Nintendo Switch, 2022) - Directer (program director)

Special Thanks

 * New Super Mario Bros. 2(2012)
 * Super Smash Bros. Ultimate(2018) - Original Game Supervisor