Nintendo

The Nintendo logo

For the weapon brand, see Weapon brand#Nintendo.

Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社 Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. Nintendo is the world's largest video game company by revenue. Founded on 23 September 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as cab services and love hotels.

Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s, Nintendo then developed into a video game company in the 1970s, ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and as of 2020 is Japan's most valuable listed company. Nintendo of America is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team.

The name Nintendo can be roughly translated from Japanese to English as "leave luck to heaven." As of 2021, Nintendo reports historically cumulative sales of over 795.62 million hardware units and 5.13 billion software units.

Some of Nintendo's most famous franchises include Mario, Zelda and Metroid. Nintendo published Splatoon and controls Splatoon's servers and DLC unlocks. Nintendo occasionally creates custom Splatoon servers accessible only by Nintendo employees for live streams or promotional material. A custom Regular Battle (Turf War) server with only the Moray Towers stage (unavailable to the public at that time) was created for the Nintendo Treehouse: Live with Splatoon Tower Control live stream. Nintendo frequently does live streams through its Nintendo Direct service.

On 11 July 2015, Nintendo's fourth president, Satoru Iwata, died of a tumor inside of his bile duct. He had been fighting this ailment for a bit over two years, but it eventually overcame him. On 14 September 2015, Nintendo announced Tatsumi Kimishima to be the new president of Nintendo of Japan, replacing Satoru Iwata.

Consoles

Home consoles

• Color TV-Game (1 June 1977)
• Nintendo Entertainment System (15 July 1983)
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System (21 November 1990)
• Nintendo 64 (23 June 1996)
• Nintendo GameCube (14 September 2001)
• Wii (19 November 2006)
• Wii U (18 November 2012)
• Nintendo Switch (3 March 2017)

Handheld consoles

• Game & Watch (28 April 1980)
• Game Boy (21 April 1989)
• Virtual Boy (21 July 1995)
• Game Boy Color (21 October 1998)
• Game Boy Advance (21 March 2001)
• Nintendo DS (21 November 2004)
• Nintendo 3DS (26 February 2011)
• Nintendo Switch Lite (20 September 2019)

Notable Employees involved with Splatoon and/or Splatoon 2

Active

• Hisashi Nogami (1971-; affiliated 1994-)
• Yusuke Amano (1981-; affiliated 2003-)
• Tsubasa Sakaguchi (?-; affiliated 2004-)
• Seita Inoue (?-; affiliated ?-)
• Shintaro Sato (?-; affiliated 2008-)
• Toru Minegishi (1975-; affiliated 1998-)
• Ryo Nagamatsu (1982-; affiliated 2006-)
• Yuki Tsuji (1974-; affiliated 2008-)
• Shiho Fujii (1984-; affiliated 2007-)
• Shigetoshi Gohara (1980-; affiliated ?-)
• Takuro Yasuda (?-; affiliated 2014-)
• Mitsuhiro Kida (?-; affiliated 2006-)
• Isami Yoshida (?-; affiliated 2017-)
• Takahisa Yamamoto (1989-; affiliated ?-)
• Shigeru Miyamoto (1952-; affiliated 1977-)
• Katsuya Eguchi (1965-; affiliated 1986-)
• Tatsumi Kimishima (1950-; affiliated 2002-)
• Mariko Tachibana (?-; affiliated 2012-)
• Yosuke Morimoto (?; affiliated 2014-)
• Kotomi Jin (?-; affiliated 2012-)
• Hiroshi Ueda (?-; affiliated 2010-)
• Takuya Kobayashi (?-; affiliated 2016-)
• Kazuhide Ueda (?-; affiliated 2013-)
• Terumasa Kato (?; affiliated 2014-)
• Junki Ikeuchi (?-; affiliated 2012-)

Former

• Keita Tsutsui (?-; affiliated 2012-2018; Nintendo —> Ubisoft Singapore —> Niantic)

Deceased

• Satoru Iwata (1959-2015; affiliated 2000-2015)