Nintendo Co., Ltd.
name
Nintendo Co., Ltd.
id
NTDOY
summary
Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops, publishes, and releases both video games and video game consoles. Founded in 1889 as Nintendo Koppai by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi, it originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards. After venturing into various lines of business during the 1960s and becoming a public company, Nintendo distributed its first console, the Color TV-Game, in 1977. It gained international recognition with the release of Donkey Kong in 1981 and the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Mario Bros. in 1985. Since then, Nintendo has produced some of the most successful consoles in the video game industry, such as the Game Boy, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Nintendo DS, the Wii, and the Switch. It has created and/or published numerous major franchises, including Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Fire Emblem, Kirby, Star Fox, Pokémon, Super Smash Bros., Animal Crossing, Xenoblade Chronicles, and Splatoon. Nintendo's mascot, Mario, is internationally recognized. The company has sold more than 5.592 billion video games and over 836 million hardware units globally, as of March 2023. Nintendo has multiple subsidiaries in Japan and abroad, in addition to business partners such as HAL Laboratory, Intelligent Systems, Game Freak, and The Pokémon Company. It is one of the wealthiest and most valuable companies in the Japanese market.
industry
Video games, Electronics
founded
23 September 1889
founder
Fusajiro Yamauchi
headquarters
Kyoto, Japan
area_served
Worldwide
key_people
Shuntaro Furukawa (president), Shigeru Miyamoto (fellow)
products
List of products
revenue
¥1.601 trillion (US$13.923 billion) (2023)
operating_income
¥504.3 billion (US$3.678 billion) (2023)
net_income
¥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
7,317 (2023)
divisions
Entertainment Planning & Development, Platform Technology Development, Business Development
subsidiaries
List
website
nintendo.com