Nintendo announced some sad news today. The CEO and President of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, passed away on July 11, 2015 from gallbladder cancer.
Iwata started his career as a game developer for HAL Laboratory which became famous due to its collaboration with Nintendo in several well-known projects high profile.
He quickly went into the HAL hierarchy, and finally left and joined 2000 on Nintendo.
It is worth noting that he was the first chairman who did not belong to the Yamauchi family who founded Nintendo.
In 2002, Iwata became Nintendo's fourth president. During his stay at Nintendo, Iwata has participated in many successful projects of the company and even took over as CEO of Nintendo of America in 2013. Satoru Iwata is credited with tripling the company's profits, especially after the release of Game Boy Advance SP and Wii.
While president of the Company he released several best-sellers and continued to develop its game hardware with the introduction of the Wii U. He also continued the procedure evolution of the DS series with the new 3DS standard.
Satoru Iwata was also involved in the development of the new NX platform and had refused to provide more details about it before 2016.
Iwata tried to make Nintendo more accessible and friendly to the publicforeignto several companies to show them the development process of his company.
Currently, Nintendo is competing fiercely with its Wii U, Microsoft's Xbox One, and the PlayStation 4 by Sony. Let's see, will there be continuity in the competition?
