Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese video game manufacturer with headquarters in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, Nintendo started by produced handmade hanafuda cards and moved into video games in 1974 by securing the rights to distribute the Magnavox Odyssey video game console in Japan.
Nintendo's first hardware was in 1977, with the Color TV Game home video game consoles and today Nintendo is the most successful video game company in the world with a market value of over US$ 85 billion.
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (2017)
Developed by Monolith Soft for
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a role-playing game developed by Monolith Soft and released on Nintendo Switch.-5 -
Pokemon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon (2017)
Developed by Game Freak for 3DS
Pokemon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon is a role-playing game developed by Game Freak and released on Nintendo 3DS.-5 -
Mario Party: The Top 100 (2017)
Mario Party: The Top 100 is a misc game developed by Nd Cube and released on Nintendo 3DS.-5
History
Subsidiary Companies
Nintendo owns and manages several software development studios across the world. Here is a list of those studios:
Nintendo Brainwaves
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