Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata Has Passed Away

<p>Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s President and CEO&comma; Satoru Iwata&comma; has passed away&period; He was 55 years old&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In light of this tragic event&comma; Nintendo issued <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nintendo&period;co&period;jp&sol;ir&sol;pdf&sol;2015&sol;150713e&period;pdf">the following statement<&sol;a>&comma; explaining that Iwata was claimed by the same health complications that prevented his show floor appearance this past E3&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Iwata originally began work in the games industry in the 1980s&comma; helping to create such games as <em>Balloon Fight<&sol;em> and <em>Earthbound <&sol;em>under HAL Laboratory with <em>Super Smash Bros&period;<&sol;em> creator&comma; Masahiro Sakurai&period; Joining Nintendo in 2000&comma; he succeeded Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi in 2002 and later assumed his position as CEO in 2013&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s president for the past twelves years and its CEO for the past two&comma; Iwata oversaw the launch for both the Wii and Wii U as well as the debut of the DS and 3DS&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Our thoughts are with his friends and family at this time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;nintendos-president-has-passed-away-1717386412">Kotaku<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;