Nintendo just announced the saddest news possible for their fans: Satoru Iwata, president of the company for the last 13 years and only the fourth president of the company overall, has passed. He suffered from a bile duct tumor and even though the condition was treated last year, things went awry recently and required another surgery. Unfortunately complications arised and Iwata passed at 55 years of age.
Iwata was beloved amongst fans and was responsible for many of the successful products and ideas that Nintendo had in recent years. He was responsible for leading the company when it created the highly successful Nintendo Wii console, the revolutionary handheld consoles Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS. As of now both Shigeru Miyamoto and Genyo Takeda, senior managing directors of Nintendo, will hold things together at the company until a new president is announced.