Nintendo Co., Ltd., Nintendo (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd., founded in Japan in 1889, is a well-known portable game console platform and an influential game platform manufacturer in the world
Nintendo's predecessor was founded on September 23, 1889. It started as a small company founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to make a Japanese handmade type of playing cards called Hanaza. Officially renamed Nintendo Corporation in 1963, Nintendo Corporation has developed a variety of businesses, such as hotels and video game companies. In addition, Nintendo also owns the Seattle Mariners in Major League Baseball. Turning primarily to electronics, the Famicom Nintendo console quickly became the world's largest video game company. Later, the advent of consoles such as Super Famicom, N64, GameCube, and Wii strengthened Nintendo's position in the video game industry to this day.
Nintendo is the longest-running video game platform company in history, as well as the most influential and well-known game platform producer, and is a leader in portable game console platforms. They started their career in Japan in 1983 and have since developed divisions in various regions such as North America in 1985 and Europe in 1986. Nintendo Corporation is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. Today, Nintendo has sold more than 2 billion copies of game software worldwide, created some of the most famous names in gaming history, such as Mario and Donkey Kong, and created some of the most iconic games in gaming history, such as The Legend of Zelda and Pokémon. Nintendo manufactures and sells home consoles and gaming software, including the Nintendo GameCube and the Game Boy series, the world's best-selling handheld consoles.
Nintendo is the world's No. 1 game console company, ranking 294th among the world's 500 most valuable companies (stock market value) in 1996. Nintendo, which has only 850 employees, has beaten mega-companies like Toyota several times to become the most profitable company in Japan, and has created the myth that each employee nets the company $1.5 million. Nintendo's game consoles sold 31.7 million units in 1991, making it to L/3 or more American households; The ace game "Super Mario" series swept 150 countries around the world, selling nearly 70 million boxes by 1991, with 1.2 billion "Super Mario" fans; In 1992 alone, 32 million boxes of Tetris were sold, and the Red Square Cathedral in Moscow, which served as the background of the game, was called the "Tetris Tower" by children around the world, and Tchaikovsky's work as the background music became the "Nintendo Song"; By 1996, Game Kid had sold more than 40 million units. US President George W. Bush once attended a military intelligence meeting with a "game boy," and former Soviet astronauts invited a "game boy" to space. In 1995, 30% of Japan's semiconductor production was used in Nintendo products. In 1996, Nintendo's turnover was $3.276 billion, profits were $554 million, and the market value was $10.432 billion. A new box of Nintendo game cards is now sold every 5 seconds around the world.
"Nintendo" originated from the idiom "It is up to man to make things happen, and things are up to heaven", and President Uru Yamauchi shifted his main business from the production of playing cards to computer game consoles in the 80s. Its game has a lot of influence and has benefited many players. In the 70s, Atari pioneered a high-tech computer game industry. Coincidentally, Nintendo, a Japanese company specializing in computer game consoles, also caused an uproar when it launched its home computer game console (FC) on the market in the early 80s. This small Japanese company has less than 1,000 employees, but it has left behind the well-known international well-known large enterprises such as Panasonic, Hitachi, Toshiba, and Sony——— with a per capita profit of 800,000 US dollars in 1993; In 1994, the company's pre-tax profit ranked second among all listed companies in Japan, second only to Toyota, the overlord of the automotive industry.
