TOKYO. The Japanese video game maker Nintendo said it will promote its managing director, Tatsumi Kimishima to replace the president Satoru Iwata, who died of cancer in July.
Kimishima a exbanquero who also directed the operations of Nintendo in the United States, will assume his new post on Wednesday, the company said.
The executive 65, replaces a charismatic leader and involved with the product that launched the Nintendo Wii.
With his experience in finance and key management operations abroad, it is seen as a manager who will bring balance a management team that will continue to include two prominent engineers of games, analysts said.
Mr Takeda, one of the main developers of the Wii console, and senior managing director Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of successful games Mario and Donkey Kong, will remain the other two representative directors Nintendo .
Tatsumi Kimishima (center) at a press conference. (Photo: Jiji Press / AFP)
“(Kimishima) is a safe choice to continue the path set by Iwata,” said Hideki Yasuda, an analyst at Ace Research Institute.
“He will be in charge of the administration, while Takeda and Miyamoto will be responsible for the business of video game hardware and software,” he said
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The two engineers were viewed as possible candidates to fill the top job because they were temporarily in charge of managing the company after the death of Iwata.
Kimishima will have the task of preventing reduce too sales of traditional consoles and simultaneously push aggressively into the segment games on mobile devices.
Just months before his death, Iwata decided to enter the segment of video games on mobile devices through a partnership with online gaming company DeNA Co Ltd, after years to resist calls from investors to do that.
Source: Reuters
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