Nintendo
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| Nintendo | |
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| Type | Public |
| Founded | September 23, 1889 |
| Headquarters |  Kyoto, Japan  Redmond, Washington, USA  Richmond, British Columbia  Windsor, Berkshire  Frankfurt, Germany  Scoresby, Victoria  Suzhou, China (as iQue, Ltd.)  Seoul, South Korea |
| Key people | Nintendo of Japan: Shuntaro Furukawa (president and CEO) Satoru Iwata† (former president and CEO) Shigeru Miyamoto (game designer) Gunpei Yokoi† (creator of the Game Boy, Game & Watch, and Virtual Boy) Hiroshi Yamauchi† (former president and chairman) Fusajiro Yamauchi† (founder) Nintendo of America: Doug Bowser (president and COO) Reggie Fils-Aime (former president and COO) Minoru Arakawa & Howard Lincoln (former heads) Nintendo of Europe: Satoru Shibata (president) |
| Industry | Video game industry Consumer electronics |
| Products | Color TV-Game, Game & Watch, Famicom/NES, Game Boy line, Super NES, Virtual Boy, Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, various game titles and peripherals |
Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company which develops and manufactures its own line of video games and consoles. It was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi on September 23, 1889 as a company which produced Hanafuda playing cards. Since 1977, with the release of the Color TV-Game, Nintendo has been a video game developer and console manufacturer.
Nintendo has published every game in the Super Smash Bros. series. Prior to Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the series only had representation for Nintendo franchises, such as Mario and The Legend of Zelda. While later Super Smash Bros. games still mainly represent Nintendo franchises, they also have representation for some third-party franchises, such as Sonic the Hedgehog.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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| Japanese | 任天堂 ニンテンドー Nintendō |
任天堂 is the formal name of the company. For each characters, 任 (nin) means "responsibility", "work" or "obligation", 天 (ten) means "sky" and 堂 (dō ) meaning "stately", "bless" or "sanctuary". Also 天堂 (tendō ) means "heaven". ニンテンドー is written in rough katakana form and is used for the Japanese names of some Nintendo's consoles, like Nintendo GameCube (ニンテンドーゲームキューブ, Nintendō Gēmukyūbu). The name Nintendo comes from a Japanese saying, 「運を天に任せる」(un o ten ni makaseru), meaning "To leave one's luck to heaven." |
| Chinese | 任天堂 Rèntiāntáng |
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| Finnish | Nintendon (Captain N: The Game Master) Nintendo |
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| Korean | 닌텐도 Nintendo |
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External links[edit]
- Official Japanese website
- Official American website
- Official Canadian (English) website
- Official Canadian (French) website
- Official Latin American website
- Official Brazilian website
- Official Colombian website
- Official Argentinian website
- Official Chilean website
- Official Peruvian website
- Official European website
- Official Danish website
- Official Finnish website
- Official Norwegian website
- Official Swedish website
- Official Hungarian website
- Official Polish website
- Official Czech website
- Official Slovak website
- Official Israeli website
- Official Oceanian website
- Official Korean website
- Official Hong Kongese (Traditional) website
- Official Hong Kongese (Simplified) website
- Official Taiwanese website
- Official Singaporean website
- Official Malay website
- Official Filipino website
- Official Thai website
- Official Mainland Chinese website
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