Satoru Iwata
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| Satoru Iwata | |
| Known for | President of HAL Laboratory, 1993-1999 President of Nintendo, 2002-2015 Manager of Nintendo SPD, 2003-2013 |
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| Birth | December 6, 1959 |
| Death | July 11, 2015 |
Satoru Iwata (岩田 聡, Iwata Satoru, December 6, 1959 – July 11, 2015) was the third president of HAL Laboratory and the fourth president of Nintendo.
He was also the manager of Nintendo Software Planning & Development from 2003 until Shinya Takahashi took over in 2013.
He was preceded by Hiroshi Yamauchi and succeeded by Tatsumi Kimishima as president of Nintendo.
