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Nintendo Co., Ltd. [c] is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes, and releases both video games and video game consoles. The history of Nintendo began when craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi founded the company to produce handmade hanafuda playing cards. After venturing into various lines of business ...
Shigeru Miyamoto was hired by Nintendo in 1977, and created Donkey Kong (1981) for arcades: the company's first international hit video game and the origin of Nintendo's mascot Mario. After the video game crash of 1983 , Nintendo filled a market gap in the west by releasing the Japanese Famicom home console (1983) as the Nintendo Entertainment ...
With more than 101 million units sold, the Nintendo Wii is the best-selling home video game console in the seventh generation. The release of the Xbox 360 began the seventh generation. Video game consoles had become an important part of the global IT infrastructure by the mid-2000s. It was estimated that video game consoles represented 25% of ...
A size comparison of the (top to bottom) Wii (2006), GameCube (2001), Nintendo 64 (1996), North American SNES (1991) and the NES outside of Japan (1985) The Japanese multinational consumer electronics company Nintendo has developed seven home video game consoles and multiple portable consoles for use with external media, as well as dedicated consoles and other hardware for their consoles.
Because games sales were critical to Nintendo, it initially controlled all game production, but at requests from companies like Namco and Hudson Soft, Nintendo allowed for third-party developers to create games for the consoles, but strictly controlled the manufacturing process, limited these companies to five games year, and required a 30% ...
This is a list of notable video game companies that have made games for either computers (like PC or Mac), video game consoles, handheld or mobile devices, and includes companies that currently exist as well as now-defunct companies. See the list of video games for other lists relating to video games, and defunct video game companies for a more ...
This is a listing of largest video game publishers and developers ranked by reported revenue. Sony Interactive Entertainment is the world's largest video game company, followed by Tencent and Microsoft Gaming. [1] Of the 65 largest video game companies, 15 are based in the United States, 11 in Japan, 8 in South Korea, and 7 in China.
A sub-series of the Wii video game series that focuses on board games and minigames similar to the Mario Party series. Wii Party (2010) Wii Party U (2013) [89] [90] [91] Wii Sports: A sub-series of the Wii video game series that focuses on a collection of sports video games. Wii Sports (2006) Nintendo Switch Sports (2022) [92] Xenoblade Chronicles