Sadly, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima has announced that he’s stepping down from his role on June 28th. His replacement for the position of Nintendo president will be 56 year old Shuntaro Furukawa. Here’s what Kotaku has to say about his successor and his part achievements “Furukawa has an impressively long history working in multiple areas of upper management at Nintendo.”
Thanks to Christopher B for the news tip.
this soon? he has only been president for around 2-3 years
Kimishima was only acting as a temporary president until they could find someone better. He was kind of like the emergency backup when we lost Mr. Iwata
Many people thought he was gonna be the president to a year, but that was a misunderstanding.
This doesn’t make much sense, seems like he’s been doing a fantastic job. I wonder what the reasons are?
That it was always planned that he would be a short term president and they wanted someone younger to take over
56 isn’t that young though.
cubits12x: According to most sites, he’s 46, so there might be a typo here and on Kotaku (the source). In comparison to Kimishima’s 68, 46 is pretty young.
I don’t think this is not a mistake.
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Strange
I know right?
I was bit worried when Kimishima became the president… specially taking into account how loved Iwata was, and how kimishima looked to old to understand the modern changing market. But my worries were proven wrong. Kimishima will not be as remembered as Iwata was, but there is no doubt he has made a fantastic job at Nintendo.
And if Nintendo has found someone they consider better suited for the job… then I will put my faith in him.
In addition, when Kimishima stepped in it was clearly stated that it was a temporal position, so I dont really see this anouncement that strange.
Iwata was loved by everyone. Besides, Nintendo is keeping track of there current standards.
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Furukawa has only worked at Nintendo for like 5 yet Kotaku says “Furukawa has an impressively long history working in multiple areas of upper management at Nintendo.”
Does he has a long history with them? I don’t believe it.
Why stepping down as president. People did say he will be the president only for a year.
Your moment arrives Shuntaro Furukawa, make us proud.
Aww. I mean, it’s not like we really got to know him in videos or anything, but he seemed to be a good president, made good decisions. Thank you Mr. Kimishima~
Shame. Nintendo was doing good under Kimishima these last few years. Well here is to hoping the new guy is as good, if not better, as Kimishima.