Analysts: Miyamoto Unlikely to be New Nintendo President

21st July, 0 replies

Unsurprisingly video game analysts have been quick to speculate on who will succeed Satoru Iwata as Nintendo's new president and most think it unlikely that the creator of some of the most popular Nintendo franchises, Shigeru Miyamoto, will be the next president. Instead, Genyo Takeda looks to be the current front-runner.

"I am pretty sure that the candidate will come from within the business; the very essence of Nintendo games draws from decades of management recognising a market desire for mass market fun," Nick Parker of Parker Consulting told GamesIndustry.

"The obvious two choices are Takeda-san or Miyamoto-san, the former a hardware technology company veteran, the latter, the king of Nintendo first party content. Although it would be a romantic dream to have the company led by the father of Mario, I think Takeda-san has more corporate experience and really understands hardware; it was he who argued for a new interface for the Wii rather than just a faster Gamecube with better graphics."

"Genyo Takeda, who helped Punch-Out and Startropics, was one of the main devs on the Wii, and has a similar trajectory in the company as Iwata (from programmer to manager to executive)," noted the manager of Qualitative Insights at EEDAR, Mike Schramm.

"Takeda is likely a lead candidate for the job. Nintendo also has a number of executives on its board of directors who also could step up into the spot. It's very unlikely that the company would hire someone from outside Japan or from another corporation, as Nintendo doesn't need to (and shouldn't want to) make waves with this appointment. Most likely it'll be a senior Japanese executive at the company, ideally someone who has had a hand in game development at some point."

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