Just to add on that... the original founder put a rule in the company that it must remain a family business, to the point that when they didn't had a heir, the

Just to add on that... the original founder put a rule in the company that it must remain a family business, to the point that when they didn't had a heir, the guy adopted someone and gave him the family name, to keep the family going. Only reason the company is not with a family CEO right now, is because the last family CEO personally gave the greenlight to the shift, because he genuinely believed Iwata (the person that would replace him) was more skilled than he was at managing the company... Yet seemly he still paid close attention to the company even after retiring. Right now the children of the last CEO that theoretically own Nintendo biggest share block, but seemly nobody is sure of that, only information I found is that seemly one of them sold the shares to Nintendo itself (thus increasing the shares the other members had of Nintendo, percentage-wise).