Satoru Iwata dismisses resignation reports as purely speculation.

[Mummelmann]

Purple said:

Mummelmann said:
Iwata isn't going anywhere. Some are saying he screwed up and perhaps he did, but who the hell would take over?

Nintendo are a big global company capable of offering great wages. There would be literally thousands of intrested applicants if the position was open.

Nintendo is a fairly unique company, you would need intimate knowledge about Japanese business tradition, company tradition as well as full comprehension of the entire consumer electronics market, you would also have to posses the skills and balls to pull Nintendo out of the ditch they're currently sitting in.

This is not a job for anyone and thousands of applicants would probably yield only a tiny number of viable candidates. I'm not saying Iwata is magical, I don't care if he works there or now, but simply replacing the head of Nintendo like that is no easy task and requires some hard thinking.