Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes, and manufactures both video games and video game consoles.
Headquarters in Kyoto, Japan
Original Nintendo headquarters (1889–1930) and workshop in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, c. 1889. The right section was eventually rebuilt (pictured below), and the left section was reportedly demolished in 2004.
Nintendo karuta poster from the Meiji era
Former Nintendo headquarters (1933–1959), rebuilt from the right section of the original building
Nintendo has developed eight home video game consoles and multiple portable consoles for use with external media, as well as dedicated consoles and other hardware for their consoles. As of March 31, 2
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…and Fox McCloud—have attained international recognition. Several films and a theme park area based on the company's franchises have been created. Nintendo's game consoles have sold over 860 million units worldwide as of May 2025, for which more than 5.9 billion individual games have been sold. The company has numerous…
Home consoles size comparison of the (top to bottom) Wii (2006), GameCube (2001), Nintendo 64 (1996), North American SNES (1991) and the NES (1985)
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Super Nintendo Entertainment System (North America design)