• News

Nintendo taps Tatsumi Kimishima to be new company president

Nintendo Managing Director and former Nintendo of America CEO Tatsumi Kimishima has officially been named as Nintendo's new President and CEO, replacing Satoru Iwata, who tragically passed away earlier this year.

Ozzie Mejia

September 14, 2015 12:09 AM

4

In the wake of Satoru Iwata's tragic passing earlier this year, Nintendo was left with a massive void at the top of the company. Today, a new President of the company has been named. It's Tatsumi Kimishima, former Managing Director of Nintendo.

The information was issued earlier tonight via an official personnel change. Kimishima has served as Managing Director since June 2013, where he has remained until the time of this promotion. Prior to that, he was President of Nintendo of America. He served in that role from January 2002 until May 2006, where he was succeeded by current NOA President Reggie Fils-Aime. He also served as the first president of Pokemon USA Inc. from 2001 to 2002.

Image courtesy of Bloomberg.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?