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Nintendo Names Tatsumi Kimishima As New President

Posted by Soulskill on from the mario-snubbed-yet-again dept.

RogueyWon writes: Following the death of Satoru Iwata in July, Nintendo has announced the appointment of Tatsumi Kimishima as its new president. The 65-year-old Mr. Kimishima has been serving as Nintendo's human resources director (PDF), following a previous stint as the CEO of Nintendo of America and earlier work on the management of the Pokémon franchise. Kimishima takes up post at a time of considerable change for Nintendo, with the company beginning a tentative step into the mobile games market and preparing for the launch of a new console, codenamed "NX", in 2016.

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  1. Re:He won't last long by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm 43 and I wouldn't even want the job. Yes I've been a gamer since the early days (Intellivision) but seeing the crap being sold as games these days, plus the social media shit on top of it all - I can't understand the appeal of it all. I mean, you want to Tweet your fucking achievements? In my days, the only achievement you had was being able to finish a game, which was pretty hard for most games. These days you have infinite lives, infinite retries, time rewinding, etc. You shouldn't even be proud to finish the damn game at all.

    The only way I'd accept the job would be if it were for a sub-division within the company which only targets older gamers who want "classic/retro" games.

    Now get off my virtual lawn!