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hello everyone and thank you for joining us today president of Nintendo Satoru Iwata has died aged 55 marking an end to a life that helped shape the gaming world as we know it born in Japan in 1959 it was grew up in the city of Sapporo interested in electronic games from an early age after university owatta works at how laboratories our developer closely affiliated with Nintendo where he worked on popular franchises including earthbound and Kirby also later bringing his programming expertise to bear on Pokemon games joining Nintendo in 2000 it was a took charge as president two years later during his tenure as leader Nintendo released two of the most successful gaming devices in history the Nintendo DS handheld and the Nintendo Wii which issued traditional gaming controls in favor of motion based interaction the Wii sold over 100 million units bringing the world of gaming to a broader audience than ever before and serving as a monument to artists approach to the industry focusing less on cutting-edge hardware and more on innovative gaming experiences an approach that's likely to define how a Walter will be remembered to Nintendo's loyal fans owatta was a familiar face delivering nintendo news and announcements personally by nintendo direct broadcasts and offering game development insight through the owatta ask series of interviews although beset by health troubles in his last year's it were to continue to work and earlier this year confirmed that Nintendo was working on a new gaming platform codenamed NX on my business card I am a corporate president in my mind I am a game developer but in my heart I am a gamer an iconic figure in the industry under the leadership of Satoru Iwata Nintendo truly brought gaming to the masses the legacy that will not soon be forgotten