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Nintendo
(locationOriginal Office [[Kyoto, Japan
International offices: Redmond, Washington, United States Richmond, British Columbia, Canada Großostheim, Germany Scoresby, Victoria, Australia Suzhou, PRC (as iQue, Ltd.) Seoul, South Korea Costa del Este, Argentina (as Latamel Inc.) São Paulo, Brazil (as Latamel Inc.) Taiwan, ROC (via Nintendo Co., Ltd. and Haku Yu) key_people[[Satoru Iwata: President and CEOReggie Fils-Aime: President and COO of NOAShigeru Miyamoto: Game DesignerConrad Abbott: President of NOCRose Lappin: Managing Director of Nintendo AustraliaGunpei Yokoi (deceased): Creator of Game Boy, Game & Watch and Metroid video game series Hiroshi Yamauchi: Former President and ChairmanMinoru Arakawa: Former head of NOASatoru Shibata: President of NOE Satoshi Tajiri: Creator of the industry[[Card games (previously)products[[Game Boy line, Color TV Game, NES, SNES, Virtual Boy, Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Wii and various market cap [[Japanese yen|¥4.7813 trillion (2008)
|revenue ¥1.838 trillion (2009)"nintendo.co.jp">
|operating_income ¥555.263 billion (2009)"nintendo.co.jp"/>
|net_income ¥279.089 billion (2009)"nintendo.co.jp"/>
|assets ¥1.8 trillion (2009)"nintendo.co.jp"/>
|homepage}}
is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889"history NOJ"> by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards."history NOA"> By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel."history N-Sider"> Eventually, Nintendo developed into a video game company, becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japans third most valuable listed company, with a market value of over US$85 billion.
Nintendo is the fifth largest software company in the world.
Besides video games, Nintendo is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball team in Seattle, Washington.
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