NINTENDO

 

Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社 Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha^?) is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company located in Kyoto, Japan. Nintendo is the world's largest gaming company by revenue.^[6] Founded on September 23, 1889^[2] by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it originally produced handmade hanafuda cards.^[7] By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel.^[8]
Abandoning previous ventures, Nintendo developed into a video game company, becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most valuable listed company with a market value of over US$85 billion.^[9] Nintendo of America is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team.^[10]
The name Nintendo can be roughly translated from Japanese to English as "leave luck to heaven".^[11] As of October 18, 2010, Nintendo has sold over 565 million hardware units and 3.4 billion software units.

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