Nintendo

Nintendo was founded in September 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi in Kyoto to make hanafuda playing cards. It is headquartered in Kyoto and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (7974).

It designs consoles and games: the Nintendo Switch family and the Switch 2, earlier Game Boy, DS and Wii hardware, and franchises such as Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Pokemon (as a partner) and Animal Crossing. Development subsidiaries include Retro Studios, Monolith Soft and Next Level Games.

Nintendo reports 8,666 employees on a consolidated basis at the end of March 2026, 3,084 of them at Nintendo Co., Ltd. itself (company profile). Its office list covers Kyoto, Uji and Tokyo in Japan and sales subsidiaries in North America, Europe, Australia and East Asia.