I just have to say that picking a 65 year old to lead your company is not a good long term prospect. Thats usually retirement age.

He should have retired 10 years ago.

I'll wait and see, but expect good things.

Hiroshi Yamauchi didn't step down in his role of president of Nintendo until he was 74 years old and it also may not be so uncommon in Japan for veteran members of companies to play more important leadership roles.

Tag. Gonna read later.

Great read. Didn't know he helped in creating save state tech in NES cartridges and was part of the creation of the analogue stick. I'm quite optimistic that he will be a great president for Nintendo, even if temporary.

Nevermind that was Takeda lol

Still optimistic!

I'm just curious what this means for NoA. Will Reggie get it back under his complete control?

The funny part is I predicted an American would take over, and this is practically the same thing as this guy has lived here for so long.

Someone look it up, Is he a duel citizen?

He developed the one for the N64, which, as far as I know, is the first modern analogue stick. Or am I just making things up here?

I mean... the technology behind it is quite different from the technology behind, for example, the arcade and Atari sticks that came before  

For us it is... but Yamauchi was 77 when he let Iwata take over Nintendo, so who knows?

Oh, didn't know it was actually mentioned that he would be president for 1 year! That's interesting, and it does seem to be a logical move. On the other hand, and I don't know if that's also the case for Japan, isn't it normal for people to get a temporary contract before they are assigned for a longer period of time?