Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development

Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development Division
	Outside of the Nintendo Central Office in Kyoto, where the division was housed for most of its existence
Native name	任天堂情報開発本部
Romanized name	Nintendō Jōhō Kaihatsu Honbu
Formerly	Nintendo Research & Development No.4 Department
Company type	Division
Industry	Video games
Predecessors	Nintendo R&D1; Nintendo R&D2;
Founded	September 30, 1983; 41 years ago
Founder	Hiroshi Yamauchi
Defunct	September 16, 2015
Fate	Merged with Nintendo Software Planning & Development
Successor	Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
Headquarters	Kyoto, Japan
Number of locations	2 (Kyoto and Tokyo)
Services	Video game development
Parent	Nintendo

The Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development Division (Nintendo EAD for short) is Nintendo's biggest game studio. It was responsible for making many of Nintendo's biggest games, including the Mario series and The Legend of Zelda series. It was merged with Nintendo SPD in September 2015 to create the Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development Division.

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