On Saturday at 56 year, died the president and CEO of Nintendo Satoru Iwata , who was in charge since the beginning of the last decade.
Nintendo will have to appoint a new manager, and function is the CEO and President will be shared by Geno Takeda and Shigeru Miyamoto . Iwata was the first president of Nintendo, unrelated to the family of the founders of the corporation, which started in the late nineteenth century. Under the leadership of Iwata it decided to start developing games for smartphones, and it should increase its operating profit doubled in the current year, although sales of the traditional console at the same time continued to fall.
Nintendo leads the development of a new game console generation under NX symbol , which should reach the market next year. Trying to create the conditions for better security, Nintendo representatives still does not deny the pleasure to share some comments through social networks. For example, they recently announced that next-generation console will not try to catch up with Sony PlayStation 4 on the speed level. This means that game developers have to spend to adapt their creations to the platform Nintendo .
Satoru Iwata became interested in computer games during his school years, he not only played them, but also program. Career game developer attracted him so much that he had to go against the will of parents in choosing a profession. This is a classic example of a career technician in Japan.