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Who is Shuntaro Furukawa? A Look Into Nintendo’s New President
A few hours ago, the current Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima has announced his retirement from the company in June. The person who will be taking the chair now is none other than Shuntaro Furukawa. A lot of people wonder who this 46-year-old man is and why he is the new leader of Nintendo. Well, we’re going to take a few minutes to talk about Nintendo’s new President.
Shuntaro Furukawa is a man born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. His year of birth is 1972 and he spent a long time playing Famicom games like many of the children of that generation. Furukawa has worked in Nintendo ever since 1994. However, he has been focusing on marketing more than anything else. Currently, he’s the leader of Nintendo’s Global Marketing Department.
Of course, there is also the fact that he has spent over 10 years working in Germany. In 2012 he helped The Pokemon Company as its outside Director as well. The basic conclusion that has to be drawn from this is that he has been affiliated with Nintendo for quite a long time, so he isn’t a name unknown for the insiders at the company.
He’s an individual who is very fluent in 3 different languages – English, German and Japanese – and has helped with some of Nintendo’s latest projects to become the success they are today. In fact, he was involved with a lot of marketing efforts for the Nintendo Switch and, well, we know how much of a success that console has been for Nintendo.
Not only that, his recent interviews have made him look like a visionary and a person who defies the status quo. “As a member of management with Super Mario’s creator Shigeru Miyamoto (…) I expect to say what needs to be said to run the company.” He said to Bloomberg in an interview.
A final, but no-less-important detail to be mentioned about Nintendo’s new Prez is the positive reaction analysts had over Furukawa’s new appointment. “Furukawa comes across as thoughtful, very knowledgeable and quite well informed,” said Atul Goyal, an analyst at Jefferies Group, who has met him several times in person.
“The key thing here is that management is getting younger,” said Satoshi Kurihara, an analyst at Tokai Tokyo Research Institute. “They will have to execute the Switch’s growth plan, so in that sense, this is a new start.”
Now that you know who Nintendo’s new President is. Do you think he will bring Nintendo to the top of the charts? Do you think the younger blood can be a great asset? There’s a lot to be discussed about this person so you can leave your comments below!
Since the excellent Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out in the wild for a while, interesting data can be gleaned, such as how players choose to play an innovative new RPG from home. Stats from developer Larian Studios and posted on the PlayStation Blog show that most people want to play as a stealthy archer like in Skyrim when given nearly limitless options.
According to a fascinating graph, Rogue/Ranger is the most popular multiclass build, with over 175,000 players using it to snipe unsuspecting enemies from range. The next two builds reveal similarly. 150,000 played Barbarian/Fighter because they loved pummeling things, and 109,00 played Barbarian/Paladin, which lets players talk to their victims before beatings.
More sense emerges as you descend. If the Paladin/Warlock/Sorcerer/Bard has high Charisma, any combination can be interesting. Charisma helps these classes cast spells and abilities and interact with NPCs outside of combat.
Playing a single class through Baldur’s Gate 3 feels great, which is what most players do. A pure Fighter or Wizard becomes so powerful by game’s end that we don’t blame you for not mixing things up!
Play as a Tiefling Oathbreaker Paladin, Dark Urge Origin (which you must resist), or Bard for real moral dilemmas. You could also play pseudo-Aragorn again.
Techland is continuing to release Dying Light 2 content as part of its long-term support. This is surprising since the meaty Good Night, Good Luck update was released a few months ago. It’s nice to know what’s coming, but no timeline was given.
IGN-exclusive roadmap trailers reveal more co-op missions, board quests, a tower raid, and replayable GRE anomalies. Executions and finishers may be added to the April Gut Feeling update, which overhauled melee mechanics. Graphical options, weapon repair, gear, and mod dismantling are always welcome.
Knives, polearms, and more enemy variants are coming, including a Nightmare difficulty. Changes to NG+ include firearms. Players can finally dress to their hearts’ content with new cosmetic options.
Has Techland’s Dying Light 2 support lured you back? Would you rather focus on something new?
Epic Games expanded the Fortnite V-Buck “pricing alignment” after laying off almost 900 employees, citing “inflation and currency fluctuations”. Fortnite’s premium currency will rise in international markets, including the largest.
Epic Games will raise the price of V-Bucks and real money content packs in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Eurozone countries, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Turkey, and the US (including all US Dollar storefronts) on October 27.
Raising the price of this fictitious currency was successful when the company trialed it in the UK, Canada, and Mexico, so it was decided to announce it worldwide now. These USD increases range from $1 (1000 V-Bucks, previous $7.99) to $10 (13,500 V-Bucks, previous $79.99).
How do you view Epic’s timing and pricing increase?
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