Satoru Iwata

Satoru Iwata
岩田 聡
Iwata at Game Developers Conference in 2011
4th President and CEO of Nintendo
In office May 24, 2002 – July 11, 2015
Preceded by	Hiroshi Yamauchi
Succeeded by	Tatsumi Kimishima
Personal details
Born	(1959-12-06)December 6, 1959 Sapporo, Japan
Died	July 11, 2015(2015-07-11) (aged 55) Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
Cause of death	Complications from bile duct growth
Nationality	Japanese
Spouse(s)	Kayoko Iwata (m. ?–2015; his death)[1]
Alma mater	Tokyo Institute of Technology
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In this Japanese name, the family name is Iwata.

Satoru Iwata (Japanese: 岩田 聡, Hepburn: Iwata Satoru, December 6, 1959 – July 11, 2015) was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer and gamer. He was the fourth president and CEO of Nintendo. He is widely regarded as someone who helped make video games liked by a wider audience by focusing on making entertaining games rather than advanced hardware.

On July 11, 2015, Iwata died of bile duct cancer at age 55. Iwata was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2015 Golden Joystick Awards and the 2016 DICE Awards.

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