Nintendo's Fifth President: Tatsumi Kimishima (#105)

Nintendo have announced that Tatsumi Kimishima, 65, has been promoted to the Japanese video game organisation's company fifth and most recent president. Nintendo's last and fourth president, Satoru Iwata, unfortunately passed away two months ago. Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, Zelda and Pikmin, and Genyo Takeda, one of the creators of the Wii, were each expected to be chosen as the next president, but Kimishima, who was CFO of the Pokemon Company in 2000 and Nintendo of America's president from 2002-2006, was given the position instead.

Nintendo will be making a lot of changes in the next couple years, from the release of the details-scarce NX console, to the mobile games that Nintendo are experimenting with, such as Pokemon Go which looks pretty cool.

Thanks to arstechnica.com for this information.

Thomas