Private company

Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development

Former division of Nintendo

Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development Division, commonly abbreviated as Nintendo EAD and formerly known as Nintendo Research & Development No.4 Department (abbreviated as Nintendo R&D4), was the largest software development division within the Japanese video game company Nintendo. It was preceded by the Creative Department, a team of designers with backgrounds in art responsible for many different tasks, to which Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka originally belonged.2 From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 16, 2026.

Overview

Sep 1983Founded1
  • Industryvideo game industry1
  • HeadquartersKyoto1

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The story

Founded by Hiroshi Yamauchi on Sep 1983.1

Leadership

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Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

Divisions

  • EAD Tokyo

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Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded Nintendo Research & Development 21
  2. Succeeded by Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development1

Timeline

  1. Sep 16, 2015Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. Sep 1983Founded Founded1

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