Nintendo

Nintendo^[a] is a Japanese company that makes video games and video game consoles. At first, it began by creating playing cards and other toys and games. Their main office is in Kyoto, Japan. They also have offices in other continents.

Nintendo

Nintendo's logo, which dates back to the 1980s. The current color was adopted in 2005; the previous red version is still used on some properties, mostly in Japan.[1]
Headquarters in 2020
Native name	任天堂株式会社
Company type	Kabushiki gaisha
Traded as	TYO: 7974
Industry	Video games Consumer electronics
Founded	Kyoto, Japan (September 23, 1889 (1889-09-23))
Founder	Fusajiro Yamauchi
Headquarters	Kyoto , Japan[2]
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Tatsumi Kimishima (Global President) Shigeru Miyamoto (EAD General Manager) Reggie Fils-Aime (Former President NoA) Satoru Shibata (President NoE)
Products	Consoles list Color TV Game Game Boy line NES SNES Virtual Boy Nintendo 64 Nintendo GameCube Game Boy Advance Nintendo DS Wii Nintendo DSi Nintendo 3DS Wii U Nintendo Switch Franchises list Donkey Kong Kirby The Legend of Zelda Mario Metroid Pokémon Super Smash Bros. Pikmin Star Fox Wario Yoshi
Services	List Nintendo Network Nintendo eShop Miiverse Nintendo TVii SpotPass Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (defunct) Nintendo Switch Online
Revenue	¥ 635.6 billion (FY 2013)[3]
Operating income	¥ 36.1 billion (FY 2013)[3]
Net income	¥ 7.2 billion (FY 2013)[3]
Total assets	¥ 1.4 trillion (FY 2013)[3]
Total equity	¥ 1.1 trillion (FY 2013)[3]
Number of employees	5,095 (as of January 2013)[4]
Subsidiaries	List The Pokémon Company 1-UP Studio HAL Laboratory Intelligent Systems Monolith Soft Nd Cube Creatures Inc. Retro Studios
Website	nintendo.com

Nintendo made many of the most popular and best-selling consoles of all time, like the Game Boy, Nintendo DS, Wii and Nintendo Switch. Altogether, Nintendo has sold over 700 million consoles (2018)^[5] and over 5 billion games (2022).^[6]

History

Nintendo's building in 1889

Nintendo was formed on September 23, 1889. Originally, they were a company that made playing cards. Then it went on to making toys. In the 1960s, they started doing other things, such as owning hotels. They began making video games only in the 1970s. In 1980, they came out with a hand-held game device called Game and Watch. Nintendo's first video game console was the Color TV Game.

The Famicom, Nintendo's second console, was first only released in Japan. It was later released in some other areas, such as North America and Europe. When they released it in there, its name was changed to the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES for short. They also released some popular stand-alone video games, with names like the arcade game Donkey Kong, and NES games Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, and The Legend of Zelda. Later, the company made hand-held game consoles such as the Game Boy, the DS, and the 3DS, while continuing to make more home consoles such as the Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, and Switch. Nintendo later sold newer consoles, and a changing point happened with the Nintendo 64, or N64, which made the first Nintendo 3D games. One of its biggest games is Super Mario 64.

List of video game consoles

portable and semi-portable devices

The latest console of Nintendo, the Switch 2 on display in April 2025.

• Game Boy (1989) and Game Boy Color (1998).

• Virtual Boy (1995)

• Game Boy Advance (2001), Game Boy Advance SP^{[broken anchor]} (2002) and Game Boy Micro^{[broken anchor]} (2005).

• Nintendo DS (2004), Nintendo DS Lite (2006), Nintendo DSi (2008) and Nintendo DSi XL (2009).

• Nintendo 3DS (2011, N3DS), Nintendo 3DS XL (2012), Nintendo 2DS (2013), New Nintendo 3DS (2014), New Nintendo 3DS XL (2014) and New Nintendo 2DS XL (2017).

• Wii U (2012)

• Nintendo Switch (2017), Switch Lite (2019) and the OLED model (2021).

non-portable devices

• Nintendo Entertainment System (1985, NES) – known as the Famicom in Japan [or the "Family Computer"]

• Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1990, SNES) – known as the Super Famicom in Japan [or the "Super Family Computer"]

• Nintendo 64 (1996)

• Nintendo GameCube (2001)

• Wii (2006)

See also: List of best-selling video games

List of Nintendo products

Main article: List of Nintendo products

Related pages

• Citra (emulator) (3DS) and Yuzu (emulator).

Other companies:

• Sega, Sony and Microsoft (video game console competitors).
• Game Gear, Playstation portable, Vita and steam Deck (handheld devices).
• Mobile game