Under new president, this is still Satoru Iwata’s Nintendo — and it’s at a crossroads

The Super Mario Bros. company has a new leader today, but he’s planning to guide the publisher in the same direction it was already marching in.

Nintendo announced this morning that it has appointed general manager Tatsumi Kimishima as president and chief executive officer to replace Satoru Iwata, who died in July. If Nintendo were ready for some major changes, this shift in leadership seems like the ideal opportunity to pursue them. But Kimishima is more likely going to have Nintendo working to further the strategies first put in place by Iwata himself.