Satoshi Tanaka

Nintendo said today that its chief executive Satoru Iwata has died of cancer at the age of 55, in an upheaval for the Japanese video game giant just months after he abandoned a consoles-only policy and launched a push into the booming smartphone games market.

Nintendo said today that its chief executive Satoru Iwata has died of cancer at the age of 55, in an upheaval for the Japanese video game giant just months after he abandoned a consoles-only policy and launched a push into the booming smartphone games market.