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Shuntaro Furukawa has only been President of Nintendo Co. Ltd for almost a year now, and so far it doesn't seem too much different from the Kimishima era, which wasn't that much different from the Iwata era as Kimishima was only ever meant to be a stopgap CEO to keep Nintendo afloat until a proper successor to Iwata could be found.

For a company as fairly big and conservative as Nintendo, it usually takes time for new management to take hold. After all Iwata became head of Nintendo in 2002, and we didn't see him put his full stamp on the company until a little over 3 years later, when the DS was starting to gain steam, and the GameCube was on its final legs.

So with that in mind, I think sometime around next year is when we'll start to actually see what Furukawa's Nintendo will be like. Furukawa isn't a game developer like Iwata was, but he does come across as a guy who genuinely loves games, citing Golf Story, a niche indie title from some developer in Australia as a recent favorite of his, as well as having grown up of the Famicom/NES as well. So he'll probably put an even greater focus on trying to get Nintendo to develop and produce games of all kinds, and step out of their comfort zone more.