The Japanese gaming giant Nintendo named its new president last Monday. Tatsumi Kimishima is now the newly appointed head of the largest multinational video game company after the death of the previous president Satoru Iwata last July due to cancer.
Kimishima's background is in corporate planning, finance, and gaming. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kimishima was a banker for almost 30 years before he joined the Nintendo Company in 2000 as the Chief Financial Officer. From Jan. 2002 until 2006, he was the appointed president for Nintendo in America and became the managing director in 2013. The 65-year-old president is currently the managing director and the fifth president of Nintendo.
Aside from the new president, Nintendo known for promoting enduring employees was planning some new roles for other executives. According to the report, Nintendo "changed the roles of various executives." And that the firm says that, "We aim to strengthen and enhance the management structure of the company following ... Satoru Iwata's passing ... and a large-scale revision of the organizational structure of the company."
Currently, the gaming company is aiming to restructure its business and development teams. Wired reports that the company's Entertainment Analysis & Development team and the Software Planning & Development team will be merged as a new team now called Entertainment Planning & Development.
The then-president Hiroshi Yamauchi plans a strategy before to have "different creative teams" and to make these teams compete towards each other for his approval according to Wired. The Entertainment Analysis and Development team before made "Super Mario," "Legend of Zelda," "Star Fox" and "Pikmin." While Software Planning and Development Team created "Wario Ware," "Metroid" and "Rhythm Heaven."
Aside from EAD and SPD being merged. Integrated Research and Development and Nintendo System Development were also combined. These two team combined becomes Platform Technology Development and according to Wired, they will "create a structure in which we can more broadly and efficiently conduct technology development necessary for new products and services."
