Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died at the age of 55

Satoru Iwata, CEO of Nintendo, died yesterday at the age of 55, Nintendo confirming its passing into non-existence through a press release, so the information is official.

Satoru Iwata died due to a bile cancer that was discovered a few months ago, he was operated on last year by Japanese doctors, but unfortunately it seems that his evolution was not as positive as it seemed to most the world around him, so starting today the world has an innovator in minus.

Satoru Iwata has been the CEO of Nintendo for more than a decade and helped the company launch successful products such as the GameCube, the Wii, the Wii U, the DS and the recent handheld console 3DS, so his successor will have a very important role. important to fulfill.

Satoru Iwata was one of the active presidents of the companies, so he had a special relationship with game developers for portable consoles, he participated in numerous conferences organized specifically to give developers answers to the various questions they have.

In this idea, Nintendo has also taken the decision to develop certain games for the iOS platform, but it remains to be seen how long it will take until they will be available for download in terminals.

During the last year, Iwata even agreed to halve his salary to help the Nintendo company overcome the financial problems generated by the decline in sales, so we are talking about a man who gave his all to help his company .

For now, it is not known who will be Iwata's successor at the head of the company, but probably the succession plan has been discussed in recent months, so exactly as it will happen in the case of the death of Steve Jobs, Nintendo will be taken over by a man capable of leading it company to success.