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Nintendo's current logo, in use since 2016
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The exterior of Nintendo's headquarters in Kyoto, Japan
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Native name
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任天堂株式会社 |
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Romanized name
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Nintendō kabushikigaisha |
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Formerly called
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| Traded as | : |
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| Founded | 23 September 1889 |
| Founder | Fusajiro Yamauchi |
| Headquarters | Kyoto, Japan |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Production output
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| Revenue |
 ¥504.459 billion (2016) |
 ¥32.881 billion (2016) |
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¥16.505 billion (2016) |
| Total assets |
¥1.297 trillion (2016) |
| Total equity |
¥1.161 trillion (2016) |
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Number of employees
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5,166 (2017) |
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| Website | nintendo |
Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. Nintendo is one of the world's largest video game companies by market capitalization. Founded on 23 September 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as cab services and love hotels. The word Nintendo can be roughly translated from Japanese to English as "leave luck to heaven". The company has created and released some of the best-known and top-selling video game franchises, such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon.
Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s, Nintendo then developed into a video game company in the 1970s, ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most-valuable company with a market value of over $85 billion. From 1992 until 2016, Nintendo was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners.
Nintendo was founded as a card company by Fusajiro Yamauchi on September 23, 1889. Based in Kyoto, Japan, the business produced and marketed a playing card game called "Hanafuda". The handmade cards soon became popular, and Yamauchi hired assistants to mass-produce cards to satisfy demand. In 1949, the company adopted the name Nintendo Karuta Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 任天堂骨牌株式会社 Hepburn: Nintendō karuta kabushikigaisha), doing business as The Nintendo Playing Card Co. outside Japan. Nintendo continues to manufacture playing cards in Japan and organizes its own contract bridge tournament called the "Nintendo Cup".
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