Nintendo has named a 65-year-old human resources executive as president to lead the company’s long- awaited push into smartphone gaming and development of its new console.

Nintendo chief executive Satoru Iwata died of cancer on Saturday, months after he led the Japanese video-game maker’s belated entry into mobile gaming following years of declining sales. He was 55.

Nintendo plans to release five smartphone games by 2017, the first of which will launch by the end of the year.