a lot has happened since 1889 when Nintendo was born as a Hanafuda card companythat is to say with flowers, as one of the ideas of the Japanese Fusajiro Yamauchi, the firm is confirmed in Kyoto and it continues to be based there today.
At the moment, is one of the most successful video game companies in the worldOwner of iconic games like Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon.
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The company has adopted its abilities to innovate with a great capacity for adaptation, it has managed to be one of the most popular in the development of video games.
In 1933 he converted the name Yamauchi Nintendo and later, in 1951, The Nintendo Playing Card, twelve years later he established his name as Nintendo and started with other business branches.
In 1962, the company was listed on the second section of the Osaka Stock Exchange. and on the Kyoto Stock Exchange.
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is 1973, the company opted for the Laser Clay Shooting System, which preceded the company’s entry into the video game marketit also inspired many of Nintendo’s future video games such as Duck Hunt.
The idea is that players fire their lasguns at moving targets produced by an overhead projector. When a hit is registered, the projector displays an image of a destroyed target. This even went so far as to take away the popularity of bowling in Japan.
towards video games
is 1975 in cooperation with Mitsubishi Electric, develops a video game system for Japan using electronic video player (EVR) and the following year he introduced the microprocessor in video game systems, by 1977 he developed the first home consoles, ‘TV Game 15’ and ‘TV Game 6’.
In March 1978 Nintendo publishes a desktop game arcade based on the board game Othello: Computer Othello. On a black, single-color screen, green, white, and black Othello pieces are replaced by squares and plus signs respectively. Computer Othello has no joystick, just 10 colored buttons per player.
A year later, Minoru Arakawa, son-in-law of Japanese Nintendo head Hiroshi Yamauchi, launches Nintendo of America in New York City, Thus, he started a department of coin-operated gaming machines.
Mario is born
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graphic artist, Shigeru Miyamoto created the Donkey Kong game in 1980. The protagonist, whose original name was Jumpman, is a carpenter who runs to save his girlfriend Pauline from a crazy monkey. Jumpman is later renamed during the establishment of Nintendo of America headquarters by Nintendo Co., Ltd. As a tribute to Jumpman’s resemblance to the offices owner, Mario Segalihe was called ‘Mario’.
is 1984, the Nintendo Entertainment System -NES- is born a console that includes titles like Excitebike, Super Mario Bros., Metroid, The Legend of Zelda and Punch-Out!.
Mario and his brother Luigi become as famous as the NES and the NES game ‘Super Mario Bros.’ It is a hit all over the world.
From the introduction of the NES console in 1985 to the Wii in 2006, Nintendo has continued to innovate and set trends in the entertainment industry.
In 1989 he presented the Game Boy in Japan, the first handheld console with interchangeable game cartridges. This will strengthen the power of the Tetris game around the world.
consoles and more
The Nintendo 64 was released in Japan on June 23, 1996.. A pioneer, the 64-bit game console that changed more than 500,000 sales on the first day.
By March 1997, Nintendo 64 was released in Europe and sold 2.3 million in the first year.
Two years later and with the Pokémon license, the foundations for an unprecedented phenomenon are established. Well, the popular series was all the rage in the world.
In 2000, the Nintendo Game Boy became the best-selling console of all time with sales surpassing the 100,000,000 mark. In 2004, a worldwide scale of Nintendo’s mysterious new console is announced: the Nintendo DS, a dual-screen handheld with touch screen technology.
Nintendo DS: Recognized for being portable and light. Allows the reproduction of video games and multimedia elements. It gained favoritism for having a touch screen.
After the appearance of the Wii at the end of 2006, came a series of changes in video games and consoles, in 2008, the Wii became the first system purchased by more than 10 million Americans in a single year.
By 2011, the Nintendo 3DS system was released, allowing users to view and play 3D content without special 3D glasses.
In 2012, the Wii U included the Wii U GamePad controller so that users could play in a different way, even outside of the television.
By 2017 the Nintendo Switch system was released and in 2019 the Nintendo Switch Lite, designed specifically for portable gaming.
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As sales have fallen, the company’s new console won’t arrive until 2024.
The company has sold 125.62 million Switch consoles as of March 31, up from 122.5 million, which means that equipment sales are down 22 percent.
Although Nintendo claimed in its fiscal year-end results that it had sold a total of 17.97 million consoles during the 12-month period, it did not replace the start-of-year sales target of 21 million or the goal of reach 18 million.
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