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'''Nintendo Co., Ltd.''' (任天堂株式会社 ''Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha''<sup>?</sup>) is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. Nintendo is the world's largest video game company by revenue. Founded on September 23, 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 Japan's third most valuable listed company with a market value of over US$85 billion. Nintendo of America is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team.
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The name ''Nintendo'' can be roughly translated from Japanese to English as "leave luck to heaven." As of March 31, 2016, Nintendo reports historically cumulative sales of over 693.18 million hardware units and 4.41 billion software units.<ref>[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/ {{NES}} IR Information - Sales - Hardware and Software Sales Unit]</ref>
'''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 {{date|1889-09-23}} 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.


Some of Nintendo's most famous franchises include [[mariowiki:Mario (series)|Mario]], [[zeldawiki:The Legend of Zelda (Series)|Zelda]] and [[metroidwiki:Metroid (series)|Metroid]]. Nintendo published ''[[Splatoon]]'' and controls Splatoon's servers and [[DLC]] unlocks. Nintendo occasionally creates custom Splatoon servers accessible only by Nintendo employees for livestreams 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'' livestream. Nintendo frequently does livestreams through its [[Nintendo Direct]] service.
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 one of Japan's most valuable listed companies. Nintendo of America was also formerly the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team.


On July 11, 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, ending his glorious career.<!--The current interim presidents of Nintendo are Genyo Takeda and Shigeru Miyamoto. They will remain president until an official replacement can be found. --> <ref> [http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150713e.pdf {{NES}} Official Notification of Death and Personnel Change] </ref> On September 14, 2015, Nintendo announced Tatsumi Kimishima to be the new president of Nintendo of Japan, replacing Satoru Iwata. <ref> [http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150914e.pdf {{NES}} Official Notice Regarding Personnel Change of a Representative Director and Role Changess of Directors] </ref>
The name ''Nintendo'' can be roughly translated from Japanese to English as "leave luck to heaven." As of March 2022, Nintendo reports historically cumulative sales of over 818.68 million hardware units and 5.37 billion software units.<ref>[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/index.html {{NES}} IR Information: Sales Data - Dedicated Video Game Sales Units]</ref>
 
Some of Nintendo's most famous franchises include [[mariowiki:Mario (series)|Mario]], [[zeldawiki:The Legend of Zelda (Series)|Zelda]] and [[metroidwiki:Metroid (series)|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 {{date|2015-07-11}}, Nintendo's fourth president, Satoru Iwata, died of a tumor inside of his bile duct, having been fighting this ailment for over two years.<ref>[http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150713e.pdf {{NES}} Official Notification of Death and Personnel Change]</ref> On {{date|2015-09-14}}, Nintendo announced Tatsumi Kimishima to be the new president of Nintendo of Japan, replacing Satoru Iwata.<ref>[http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150914e.pdf {{NES}} Official Notice Regarding Personnel Change of a Representative Director and Role Changes of Directors]</ref>
 
==Offices and Locations==
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<ref>https://www.nintendo.com/regionselector/</ref>
 
===Nintendo Co., Ltd.===
Nintendo Co. is the main headquarters, based in Kyoto, Japan. The branch serves Asia, though it is often localized as Asia-Pacific with the Nintendo Australia branch.
 
Supported countries from this branch include:
* Japan
* China Mainland (Tencent)
* Hong Kong
* Taiwan
* Singapore
* Thailand
* Malaysia
* Philippines
 
===Nintendo of America===
* USA
* Canada (English)
* Canada (French)
* México
* Brasil
* Colombia
* Argentina
* Chile
* Perú
 
===Nintendo Australia===
* Australia
* New Zealand
 
===Nintendo of Europe===
Nintendo of Europe not only serves Europe but also Africa and the Middle East.
 
* Austria
* België (Dutch)
* Belgique (French)
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* Deutschland
* España
* Finland
* France
* Greece
* Hungary
* Israel
* Italia
* Nederland
* Norway
* Slovakia
* Poland
* Portugal
* Russia
* South Africa
* Sweden
* Schweiz (German)
* Suisse (French)
* Svizzera (Italian)
* UK & Ireland
 
===Nintendo of Korea===
* Korea
 
==Consoles==
{{Columns
| colwidth = 30em
| col1 = '''Home consoles'''
* Color TV-Game ({{date|1977-06-01}})
* Nintendo Entertainment System ({{date|1983-07-15}})
* Super Nintendo Entertainment System ({{date|1990-11-21}})
* Nintendo 64 ({{date|1996-06-23}})
* Nintendo GameCube ({{date|2001-09-14}})
* Wii ({{date|2006-11-19}})
* [[Wii U]] ({{date|2012-11-18}})
* [[Nintendo Switch]] ({{date|2017-03-03}})
| col2 = '''Handheld consoles'''
* Game & Watch ({{date|1980-04-28}})
* Game Boy ({{date|1989-04-21}})
* Virtual Boy ({{date|1995-07-21}})
* Game Boy Color ({{date|1998-10-21}})
* Game Boy Advance ({{date|2001-03-21}})
* Nintendo DS ({{date|2004-11-21}})
* Nintendo 3DS ({{date|2011-02-26}})
}}
 
==Notable employees involved with {{s}} and/or {{s2}}==
===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)
 
==See also==
* [[List of official websites]]


==References==
==References==
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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 one of Japan's most valuable listed companies. Nintendo of America was also formerly 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 March 2022, Nintendo reports historically cumulative sales of over 818.68 million hardware units and 5.37 billion software units.[1]

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, having been fighting this ailment for over two years.[2] On 14 September 2015, Nintendo announced Tatsumi Kimishima to be the new president of Nintendo of Japan, replacing Satoru Iwata.[3]

Offices and Locations

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Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Nintendo Co. is the main headquarters, based in Kyoto, Japan. The branch serves Asia, though it is often localized as Asia-Pacific with the Nintendo Australia branch.

Supported countries from this branch include:

  • Japan
  • China Mainland (Tencent)
  • Hong Kong
  • Taiwan
  • Singapore
  • Thailand
  • Malaysia
  • Philippines

Nintendo of America

  • USA
  • Canada (English)
  • Canada (French)
  • México
  • Brasil
  • Colombia
  • Argentina
  • Chile
  • Perú

Nintendo Australia

  • Australia
  • New Zealand

Nintendo of Europe

Nintendo of Europe not only serves Europe but also Africa and the Middle East.

  • Austria
  • België (Dutch)
  • Belgique (French)
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Deutschland
  • España
  • Finland
  • France
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Israel
  • Italia
  • Nederland
  • Norway
  • Slovakia
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Russia
  • South Africa
  • Sweden
  • Schweiz (German)
  • Suisse (French)
  • Svizzera (Italian)
  • UK & Ireland

Nintendo of Korea

  • Korea

Consoles

Notable employees involved with Splatoon and/or Splatoon 2

Active

Former

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

Deceased

See also

References

  1. ↑ Nintendo IR Information: Sales Data - Dedicated Video Game Sales Units
  2. ↑ Nintendo Official Notification of Death and Personnel Change
  3. ↑ Nintendo Official Notice Regarding Personnel Change of a Representative Director and Role Changes of Directors
  4. ↑ https://www.nintendo.com/regionselector/
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