Nintendo today announced that Satoru Iwata, the company’s President and CEO, died on Saturday. He was 55.
Nintendo stated that the cause of Iwata’s death was a bile duct growth. Iwata took time off last year around E3, undergoing surgery to remove said growth.
Iwata-san also missed this year’s E3, but health complications were not named.
Iwata was the fourth President of Nintendo, taking over from longtime head Hiroshi Yamauchi in 2002.
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