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Satoru Iwata, Head of Nintendo, Has Died At 55

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 12, 2015 @12:36PM from the full-life dept.

An anonymous reader with the news, announced with a statement released by Nintendo on their homepage, that Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata died of a bile duct growth on the 11th of July, 2015. The news is noted by Kotaku and by Engadget. Wikipedia notes that Iwata was the first of the company's presidents to be unrelated to the Yamauchi family through blood or marriage.

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Please Understand by DeanCubed · 2015-07-12 13:20 · Score: 4, Interesting

He was a great man. Responsible for Pokemon Gold/Silver, Kirby's Dream Land, Balloon Fight, Earthbound, Super Smash Bros., and was CEO starting in the GameCube generation until now.

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Re:He understood games by alvinrod · 2015-07-12 14:38 · Score: 5, Interesting

He was also a model CEO in that he cut his pay last year when the company was not doing well instead of bailing out with a giant golden parachute. He believed in Nintendo and was willing to stick with them through the good and the bad.
Re:thanks for the details by Chris+Mattern · 2015-07-13 01:57 · Score: 5, Interesting

Japanese quirk. They don't say cancer; the word is taboo.
Re:He understood games by RyuuzakiTetsuya · 2015-07-13 03:19 · Score: 4, Interesting

He was also involved with debugging Super Smash Bros. Melee, when he wasn't an engineer anymore.
He prided himself on being 'CEO of a listed company in Japan with the most knowledge of programming.'
Source.
He will be missed.

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