Tatsumi Kimishima Retires as Nintendo President
During Nintendo's financial results, the company revealed that company president Tatsumi Kimishima would be retiring from his position.
The video game world was rocked early Thursday, as Nintendo has suddenly experienced a major shake-up at the top of the company. During Thursday's release of Nintendo's financial results (via Nintendo Everything), the company announced that Tatsumi Kimishima would retire as Nintendo President.
The 68-year-old Kimishima was named company President in September 2015, following the passing of former President and CEO Satoru Iwata. Kimishima previously served as Nintendo's Managing Director, as well as President of Nintendo of America.
Tatsumi Kimishima with the late Satoru Iwata (Photo credit: Bloomberg)
Kimishima will be succeeded by Shuntaro Furukawa, who has been a part of Nintendo since 2012. The 46-year-old Furukawa has largely served as Outside Director of The Pokemon Company, but most recently served as Nintendo's Managing Executive Officer and Supervisor of Corporate Analysis & Administration Division.
Kimishima's retirement will be made official in June, at which point Furukawa will step into his new position.
Elsewhere in the financials, Nintendo of Europe is also losing its President. Satoru Shibata will be transitioning back to Nintendo of Japan to fill the role of Senior Executive Officer. No word on who will replace him as President of Nintendo of Europe at this time.
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replyOzzie Mejia posted a new article, Tatsumi Kimishima Retires as Nintendo President
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Yup, pretty sure Kimisima said he wouldn't be there long when he took the position.
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And thus, nintendo was saved.
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Sounds like they wanted to transition after righting the ship. Some more numbers
17.79 million Switches srd
Over 10 million copies of Mario Odyssey sold
9.22 million copies of MK8 Deluxe sold
At about 8.5 million units sold,BotW is the best selling Zelda ever
Even Kirby gets a best ever with the Switch outing at 1.26 million sold.-
That's switches sold to date damn autocorrect.
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That's a lot of Switches sold.
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Not to drag up the past but I stumbled across this gem the other day from January 2017 (less than two months before the Switch's release)
The Wii console was a fast food fad in video game format. People had to have one then felt empty after a month of ownership. Nintendo will never sell a home console at Wii levels again. Fool me once is going to bite them hard for evermore.
http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=35900358#item_35900358
Nailed it!
Strictly technically speaking it has a ways to go before it hits the 100M+ mark of the Wii but it's sold more units in less time than the Wii did (and more units than the Wii U did, ever) so I think time will bear it out.-
They straight up said they intend for the Switch platform to last about a decade. They’ve already followed the 3DS strategy of launching in March and ramping up towards its first holiday. I except they’re also going to keep it around a long time with hardware upgrades and several price drops.
It will outsell the Wii’s 100 million, easily.
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That guidance is totes Underpromise Overdeliver.
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It's what they've always tried to do.
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the attach rate for multiple Nintendo first party games is ridiculous. I am contributing to that, but then I also have no non-Nintendo games to play on it.
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Ditto, my library is about 50/50 right now 1st party other and I hope to make that more 3rd party oriented as time goes on.
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Mario Kart 8 DX and this are why we'll keep seeing Wii U ports: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbwOe6TVQAAwdBz.jpg
Bring it, the games on the Wii U are some of the best this gen and deserve to be on a platform people actually own
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