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 Logo used since 1975[a] | |
 Headquarters in Kyoto, Japan | |
Native name | 任天堂株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Nintendō kabushiki gaisha |
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| Company type | Public |
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| ISIN | JP3756600007 |
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| Founded | 23 September 1889 in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan |
| Founder | Fusajiro Yamauchi |
| Headquarters | 11–1 Kamitoba Hokodatecho, , Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Products | List of products |
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| Brands | Video game series
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| Services | |
| Revenue |  ¥1.601 trillion (US$13.923 billion) (2023) |
| ¥504.3 billion (US$3.678 billion) (2023) | |
| ¥432.7 billion (US$3.156 billion) (2023) | |
| Total assets |  ¥2.662 trillion (US$21.866 billion) (2023) |
| Total equity | ¥2.069 trillion (US$16.995 billion) (2023) |
Number of employees | 8,109[b] (2024) |
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| Subsidiaries | |
| Website | nintendo |
| Footnotes / references [1][2][3][4][5] | |
Nintendo Co., Ltd.[c] is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes, and releases both video games and video game consoles.
The history of Nintendo began when craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi founded the company to produce handmade hanafuda playing cards. After venturing into various lines of business and becoming a public company, Nintendo began producing toys in the 1960s, and later video games. Nintendo developed its first arcade games in the 1970s, and distributed its first system, the Color TV-Game, in 1977. The company became internationally dominant in the 1980s after the arcade release of Donkey Kong (1981) and the Nintendo Entertainment System, which launched outside of Japan alongside Super Mario Bros. in 1985.
Since then, Nintendo has produced some of the most successful consoles in the video game industry, including the Game Boy (1989), the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1991), the Nintendo DS (2004), the Wii (2006), and the Nintendo Switch (2017). It has created or published numerous major franchises, including Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Animal Crossing, and Pokémon. The company's mascot, Mario, is among the most famous fictional characters, and Nintendo's other characters—including Luigi, Donkey Kong, Samus, Link, Kirby, and Pikachu—have attained international recognition. Several films and a theme park area based on the company's franchises have been created.
Nintendo's game consoles have sold over 836 million units worldwide as of March 2023, for which 5.6 billion individual games have been sold. The company has numerous subsidiaries in Japan and worldwide, in addition to second-party developers including HAL Laboratory, Intelligent Systems, Game Freak, and The Pokémon Company. It is one of the wealthiest and most valuable companies in the Japanese market.
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