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• (Japanese: 任天堂株式会社, Hepburn: Nintendō kabushikigaisha) is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and software company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan
• Nintendo is one of the world's largest video game companies by net worth
• Founded on 23 September 1889, by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards
• By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as cab services and love hotels
• The word Nintendo can be roughly translated from Japanese to English as "leave luck to heaven"
• Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s, Nintendo then developed into a video game company in the 1970s, ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most-valuable company with a market value of over $85 billion
• From 1992 until 2016, Nintendo was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners
• As of 31 March 2014, Nintendo has cumulative sales of over 670
• 43 million hardware units and 4