{"id":7983,"date":"2025-09-26T00:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bowser-is-leaving-nintendo-of-america\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T00:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:24:22","slug":"bowser-is-leaving-nintendo-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bowser-is-leaving-nintendo-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowser is leaving Nintendo of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Doug Bowser, Nintendo of America&rsquo;s President and Chief Operating Officer, is stepping down on December 31, 2025, according to Nintendo. Bowser&rsquo;s leadership responsibilities will now be split between two executives: Devon Pritchard, NoA&rsquo;s Executive Vice President of Revenue, Marketing and Consumer Experience, will take over as President, and Satoru Shibata, the current Corporate Director and Managing Executive Director, will act as the company&rsquo;s CEO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Bowser first joined Nintendo in 2015 as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, before replacing long-time President Reggie Fils-Aim&eacute; in 2019. In comparison to some of the company&rsquo;s other leaders, Bowser was much less of a public-facing presence, but he still guided Nintendo of America through a transformative portion of the company&rsquo;s history. Nintendo not only opened a theme park while Bowser was in charge, but also had a major Hollywood release in <em>The Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/em> and a successful console launch with the release of the Switch 2 earlier this year. Bowser also weathered his fair share of controversies, including reports that Nintendo of America was failing to address issues of gender discrimination among its employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">&ldquo;Leading Nintendo of America has been the honor of a lifetime, and I am proud of what our team has accomplished in both business results and the experiences we&rsquo;ve created for consumers,&rdquo; Bowser said in a statement. &ldquo;Now, it&rsquo;s time for the next generation of leadership and Devon&rsquo;s track record speaks for itself,&rdquo; Bowser continued. &ldquo;She is an exceptional leader, and her promotion is a testament to her strong performance and strategic contributions to the company&rsquo;s growth.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">According to Nintendo, &ldquo;Pritchard plans to build on the many experiences that allow consumers to connect with Nintendo&rsquo;s characters and worlds, from video games to entertainment to retail experiences.&rdquo; The company might be too big and successful now to feature someone with as much personality as Fils-Aim&eacute;, but if Pritchard plans to stick with business-as-usual, maybe Shibata could become the public face Nintendo has been missing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Bowser is leaving Nintendo of America<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Bowser, Nintendo of America&rsquo;s President and Chief Operating Officer, is stepping down on December 31, 2025, according to Nintendo. Bowser&rsquo;s leadership responsibilities will now be split between two executives: Devon Pritchard, NoA&rsquo;s Executive Vice President of Revenue, Marketing and Consumer Experience, will take over as President, and Satoru Shibata, the current Corporate Director and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bowser-is-leaving-nintendo-of-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Bowser is leaving Nintendo of America&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}