Nintendo fans on Twitter react to retirement on Reggie Fils-Aime

As we reported earlier, Nintendo of America president and COO Reggie Fils-Aime announced his impending retirement today. The popular Nintendo executive made the announcement of his April 15th retirement via a video posted on the Nintendo of America Twitter account.

Reggie joined Nintendo in 2003 as executive vice president of sales and marketing. His boisterous appearances at press conferences and events were frequently turned into viral moments by enthusiastic fans - beginning with his "My name is Reggie. I'm about kicking ass..." speech at E3 2004. In just a few years, Reggie was promoted to president of Nintendo of America, essentially becoming the face of the company for most of the western world.

Now, after 15 or so years, Reggie has decided to call it a day in order to, as these things usually go, spend more time with his family. It's understandable; while Fils-Aime always seems to have an overabundance of energy and enthusiasm, being in charge of a company like NOA can't exactly be the easiest job in the world.

It didn't take long for both fans and colleagues to start showing their appreciation... via Tweets, of course.

Other folks took this opportunity to predict what Reggie planned to do with all this upcoming free time he's about to have on his hands.

Plenty of others also had opinions on Reggie's replacement - current NOA senior vice president of sales and marketing.... Doug Bowser.

As for us, everyone here at Sportskeeda eSports - in India, the U.S., and everywhere else - would like to thank Reggie Fils-Aime for years of entertainment and great games. Except for Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival. That game is garbage.

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Kevin Christopher Sullivan has been writing online professionally since 1999, which makes him probably older than you. He's written for sites such as Uproxx and Austin.com. He's also performed stand-up comedy, attended Butt-Numb-A-Thon and E3, and owns some pretty cool t-shirts. He lives outside of Austin, TX with his wife, daughter, and four annoying cats.

Gaming since the Atari 2600/Commodore 64 days, his interests vary wildly. He is just as likely to be playing a JRPG one moment, then to move on to a game like Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and then, suddenly, decide to play Fortnite. Most likely, though, he's probably playing Marvel SNAP, even if he IS pretty crummy at it.

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