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The president of the Japanese video game giant, Satoru Iwata, has died at age 55, said today the company based in Kyoto ( Western Japan).
Iwata died Saturday victim of an obstruction in the bile duct, which was forced to undergo surgery last year already.
The executive and programmer It became in 2002 the fourth president of Nintendo, where he promoted the launch of the home console Wii, which was launched in 2006 and represented one of the biggest commercial successes in the history of the company and of video games.
As president also championed the development and commercialization of the Nintendo DS, which was another commercial success by being the first to incorporate a dual touch screen and stylus.
Born in Sapporo in 1959 and licensed computer by the Tokyo Institute of Technology, he began working on the development study HAL, Nintendo subsidiary responsible for franchises such as Super Smash Bros. and Kirby, before joining the parent in 2000.
Two Iwata years later would take the reins of the company from the hands of legendary Hiroshi Yamauchi (1927-2013), the figure had become a regional company called Nintendo playing cards on a giant electronic entertainment.
As president Iwata He became a well known face for players given their taste for appearing in presentations of new products or the “Iwata asks” section (“Iwata Asks”) to be included on the website of the company and the President He interviewed various developers.
After the lukewarm reception of new products like Wii U and financial distress in recent years, Iwata also boosted the entry of the company in the video game market for smartphones announced this same year.
Nintendo reported that temporarily remain at the helm of the company as “representative directors” Shigeru Miyamoto, the creative mind behind the success of the company billionaires and Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities 2012 . and Takeda-san, in the house since the seventies and remembered responsible for games like “Punch-out”
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