List of Nintendo divisions

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This is a list of different companies that either are devoted suportors, or are owned by Nintendo. First party companies are companies that are owned by Nintendo, second parties make games only for Nintendo, and third parties make exclusive games for Nintendo and other companies such as Sega, Microsoft and Sony.

Nintendo headquarters and primary offices[]

Main offices[]

International distributors[]

The Americas[]

Motta Internacional (Panama)
- JVLat (Latin America)
  - Distelsa (Guatemala)
    - Max (Guatemala)
  - Gametec (Paraguay)
    - Atacado Connect (Paraguay)
  - Juegos de Video de Chile (Chile)
  - Latamel (Latin America)
  - NixBlix (Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Peru)
  - Phi-Digital (Argentina)

Europe, Middle East, and Africa[]

Active Gulf (Middle East)
Advanced Initiative (Saudi Arabia)
Bergsala (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden)
- AMO Toys (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden)
CD Media (Greece)
ConQuest Entertainment (Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia)
Core Group (South Africa)
Game Park (Hungary)
Ormsson (Iceland)
TorGaming (Israel)

Asia Pacific[]

Copperwired (Thailand)
Justdan (Taiwan)
Maxsoft Ltd. (Southeast Asia)
Tencent (Mainland China)

Nintendo Central Research & Development (Japan)[]

Nintendo Entertainment Planning and Development (EPD)[]

Nintendo Entertainment Planning and Development Division or Nintendo EPD for short, is currently the largest division within Nintendo, consisting of around 1000+ developers who create Nintendo games. It was formed in 2015 with the merger between Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development (EAD) and Nintendo Software Planning & Development (SPD).

Nintendo Technology Development (TDD)[]

Nintendo Technology Development Division or Nintendo TDD for short is Nintendo's Hardware division. It was formed in 2015 with Company President Tatsumi Kimishima combining Nintendo Integrated Research and Development with Nintendo System Development.

Nintendo Development Subsidiaries[]

1-Up Studio - formerly Brownie Brown. Various Mana titles, Mother 3, Magical series. co-development of 3D Mario and Ring Fit Adventure
iQue - Translation to Chinese and support development
Mario Club - Quality Assurance on Nintendo games
Monolith Soft - Disaster: Day of Crisis, Xenoblade Chronicles, The Legend of Zelda
Nintendo Cube - F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, Wii Party, Mario Party 9, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
Next Level Games - Punch-Out!! (Wii), Mario Strikers, Luigi's Mansion.
Nintendo European Research & Development - Formerly Mobiclip. While it doesn't develop games, it does develop software. Wii U Chat, Wii U Internet Browser, emulator programs used in the NES Classic and Nintendo Switch Online applications
Nintendo Software Technology Corporation - Wave Race: Blue Storm, 1080° Avalanche, Mario vs. Donkey Kong series, Metroid Prime Hunters, Nintendo Puzzle Collection, others.
Nintendo Technology Development- development kits and co-develops the hardware
Nintendo Pictures - Assists with graphics on various titles starting with Tears of the Kingdom
Nintendo Studios Singapore - Formerly called Bandai Namco Studios Singapore. Support studio working mainly in in-game art assets.
Nintendo Systems - A joint venture with DeNA to manage the Nintendo Account system and other services for Nintendo.
Retro Studios - Metroid Prime series, Donkey Kong Country
Shiver Entertainment - Ports to Nintendo platforms
Systems Research and Development - Support studio responsible for programming numerous Nintendo games, including major EPD titles

Sales and marketing[]

Nintendo Sales Co., Ltd.
NES Merchandising Inc.
Fukuei Co., Ltd. (non-consolidated)

IP Management[]

Nintendo Stars - Operation, licensing, and management of ancillary use for films featuring Nintendo IP

Others[]

Nintendo Asia & Oceania Business Division - Satoru Shibata
- Nintendo International Business Department - Tsutomu Saito - Overseas projects.
Nintendo Business Development Division
Nintendo Corporate Analysis & Administration Division - Koji Miyake
- Corporate Planning Department
Nintendo Development Administration & Support Division
Nintendo Development Promotion Division
Nintendo Finance Administration Division - Hajime Murakami
- Finance Department
- General Accounting & Control Department
Nintendo General Affairs Division - Kentaro Yamagishi
- General Affairs Department
  - Investor Relations Group
- Intellectual Property Department
  - Product Protection Group
- Legal Department
Nintendo Global Communications Division - Yoshiaki Kuratsune
- Global Public Relations Department
  - Public Relations Group
Nintendo Human Resources Division - Koji Miyake
Nintendo Manufacturing Division - Hirokazu Shinshi
- Creative Department
Nintendo Marketing Division - Satoru Shibata and Juro Takeuchi
- Global Marketing Department
Nintendo Publisher & Developer Relations Division - Satoru Shibata
The Pokémon Company (32%)

Former or divested divisions and subsidiaries[]

Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development[]

Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development Division (previously Nintendo R&D4) was a division within Nintendo that specialized in creating video games for their current consoles. It was merged with with Nintendo SPD to create Nintendo EPD in 2015

Nintendo Software Planning and Development[]

Nintendo Software Planning and Development Division's main purpose was to produce and overseee other developers in creating Nintendo published video games, though they themselves also developed original titles. They were consolidated into Nintendo EPD with EAD in 2015.

Nintendo Integrated Research and Development[]

Nintendo Integrated Research and Development Division (Nintendo IRD for short) designed Nintendo hardware and accessories since their Arcade days in the mid 1970s. It was merged with SDD to form PTD in 2015.

Nintendo Research & Engineering[]

Nintendo Research & Engineering Department designed Nintendo handhelds and handheld accessories including the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and more. They were merged into Nintendo IRD in 2013.

Nintendo System Development[]

Nintendo System Development Division began as the Nintendo Special Planning & Department Division where it worked on low profile hardware like the e-Reader and Pokéwalker. It was turned into Nintendo Network Business & Development Division in 2011 and added the Nintendo Network Planning Group. In 2013, it was turned into Nintendo System Development. It was merged with IRD to form PTD in 2015.

Nintendo Network Service Database[]

Formerly known as Wii no Ma, Nintendo Network Service Database operates Nintendo Network service in conjunction with Nintendo SDD Network Development & Operations Department. It was dissolved in 2018.

Other units[]

International offices[]

Nintendo Italia - Merged into NOE in 2005
Nintendo UK - Merged into NOE in 2005
Nintendo Phuten Company - Dissolved in 2014
Nintendo RU - Dissolved in 2023
Nintendo France - Merged into NOE in 2023
Nintendo Benelux - Merged into NOE in 2023
Nintendo Iberica - Merged into NOE in 2024

Sales and marketing[]

Nintendo Services Ltd. - Dissolved in 2002
Nintendo Services USA, Inc. - Dissolved in 2005
Nintendo Research, Inc. - Dissolved in 2007
NHR Inc. - Dissolved in 2011
HFI Inc. - Dissolved in 2011
Siras - Sold to InComm in 2014

Research and Development[]

Nintendo Tokyo R&D Products - Dissolved in 1989
Nintendo of America Special-Projects - Dissolved in 1996
Ape - Became Creatures Inc. in 2000, currently exists for licensing
Randnet - Dissolved in 2002
Nintendo Software Canada - Dissolved in 2002
Left Field Productions - Sold off in 2002
Rare (49%) - Sold to Microsoft in 2002
MONEGI - Dissolved in 2002
Mobile21 (50%) - Dissolved in 2002
MGM Fund Inc. - Sold off in 2003
Marigul Management (50%) - Dissolved in 2003
A/N Software (51%) - Dissolved in 2004
Midway/Nintendo Inc. - Sold off in 2006
AiLive - Sold off in 2008
Silicon Knights (41%) - Sold off in 2011
Project Sora (72%) - Dissolved in 2012
PUX Corporation (27%) - Sold off in 2023