Nintendo Company Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese video game company. They are also the co-creator of Miiverse.
History[]
Nintendo was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi in Kyoto, Japan during 1889. Back then, Nintendo manufactured Hanafuda playing cards. Eventually, after jumping to many different business ideas, including love hotels and children's toys, they entered the video game market and started creating their own consoles. Their first huge success in the console market was the Nintendo Entertainment System, a console that put an end to the video game crash of 1983.
Due to its success, they eventually went on to make more successful consoles such as the SNES, Nintendo 64, Game Boy / Color / Advance, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, and currently the Nintendo Switch. They have also created several successful video game franchises such as Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Pokémon, and many others.
Today, Nintendo is one of the biggest video game companies in the world and is currently considered one of the wealthiest and most valuable companies in Japan.
Trivia[]
- Nintendo invented the D-pad, along with the standard contoller layout used on almost every video game system to this day.
- Miyamoto's first console video game was Devil World, a puzzle game that never made it to North America due to its use of religious imagery.
- Nintendo is notorious for taking down YouTube uploads of music from their games, a practice typically not observed by other video game companies.