Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has passed away: http://t.co/h7kDlvPUUdpic.twitter.com/iUUhEn9C7P
— IGN (@IGN) July 13, 2015-A statement was put out by Nintendo Japan stating that he passed away from a bile duct growth
-Iwata was Nintendo's CEO since 2002
-No successor has been named as yet
edit:
-Genyo Takeda and Shigeru Miyamoto will manage the company until an official successor is announced.
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I'm surprisingly sad about this.