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Nintendo Company Ltd. is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel. Eventually, Nintendo developed into a video game company, becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most valuable listed company, with a market value of over US$85 billion. In 2007, Nintendo ranked eighth on the list of largest software companies in the world. Besides video games, Nintendo is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball team in Seattle, Washington. According to Nintendo's Touch! Generations website, the name "Nintendo" translated from Japanese to English means "Leave luck to Heaven". As of October 2, 2008, Nintendo has sold over 470 million hardware units and 2.7 billion software units.
- Name:
- 任天堂株式会社
- Type:
- Public
- Location:
- Kyoto, Japan
- Founded:
- September 23, 1889
- Industry:
- Card games (previously)
- Video games
- Key People:
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- Minoru Arakawa: Former head of NOA
- Satoru Shibata: President of NOE
- Gunpei Yokoi (deceased): Creator of Game Boy, Game & Watch and Metroid video game series
- Shigeru Miyamoto: Game Designer
- Satoru Iwata: President and CEO
- Conrad Abbott: President of NOC
- Hiroshi Yamauchi: Former President and Chairman
- Reggie Fils-Aime: President and COO of NOA
- Rose Lappin: Managing Director of Nintendo Australia
- Products:
- Game Boy line, Color TV Game, NES, SNES, Virtual Boy, Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Wii and various video games
- Revenue:
- ¥1.672 trillion (2008)
- Operating Income:
- ¥487.22 billion (2008)
- Net Income:
- ¥257.342 billion (2008)
- Assets:
- ¥1.8 trillion (2008)
- No. of Employees:
- 3,768 (2008)
- Market Cap:
- ¥4.7813 trillion (2008)
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