Nintendo

Nintendo Company, Limited 任天堂株式会社
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Type		Public
Founded		September 23, 1889
Headquarters		Kyoto, Japan International: Redmond, Washington, USA Richmond, British Columbia, Canada Großostheim, Germany Scoresby, Victoria, Australia Suzhou, China (as iQue, Ltd.) Seoul, South Korea
Key people		Fusajiro Yamauchi: Founder Satoru Iwata: President & CEO Reggie Fils-Aime: President & COO of NoA Shigeru Miyamoto: Game Designer Gunpei Yokoi: Creator Game Boy, Game & Watch, and Metroid Hiroshi Yamauchi: Former President & Chairman Minoru Arakawa & Howard Lincoln: Former heads of NOA Satoru Shibata: President of NOE
Industry		Card games (previously) Video games
Products		Game Boy line, Color TV Game, NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and various video game titles
Revenue		10px ¥555.263 billion (2009) Forbes 2000 ranking: 620
Net income		10px ¥279.089 billion (2009)
Employees		3,013 (2006)
Website		Nintendo Japan Nintendo of America Nintendo Europe Nintendo Australia

Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社 Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha?) is a Japanese video game hardware manufacturer and software publisher. They are the largest video game making company, followed by Sony. They have countless series, such as the Mario, Legend of Zelda, Animal Crossing, and Metroid series. They previously made hanafuda cards before they came into the video game industry, and are now one of the largest video game companies there are. Since they're the developers of the Animal Crossing series, some of their products, like the NES have made it into Animal Crossing gameplay. They also have made the SNES, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii, Gameboy, Game Boy Color, Gameboy Advance, and Nintendo DS.

Gaming systems

Nintendo has created many gaming systems, most of which are listed below:

Consoles

• Color TV Game (1977 – 1980)
• Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) (1983 – 2003)
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) (1990 – 2003)
• Nintendo 64 (N64) (1996 – 2002)
• Nintendo GameCube (GCN) (2001 – 2006)
• Nintendo Wii (2006 – Present)

Portables

• Game Boy (1989 – Present)
• Nintendo DS (2004 – 2007)
• Nintendo DS Lite (2006 - Present)
• Nintendo DSi (2009 - Present)
• Nintendo 3DS (2011 - Present)

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