Nintendo Co., Ltd. (TYO: 7974; OTC: NTDOY), commonly "Nintendo," is a Japanese publicly traded entertainment company headquartered at 11-1 Hokotate-cho, Kamitoba, Minami-ku, Kyoto. It was founded in September 1889 (incorporated 1947) as a playing-card maker and took its current name in 1963. Nintendo is an independent public company with no parent; it reported 8,666 consolidated employees as of March 2026 on its own corporate profile, and Simply Wall St put market capitalization at roughly JP¥9.6 trillion in September 2026. Fortune's latest trailing-twelve-month figures (period ended Sept. 30, 2025) list revenue near US$11.7 billion.
Products and operations. Nintendo develops, manufactures, and sells dedicated video-game hardware and software: home consoles, handheld systems, accessories, and first-party game software, most recently the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 platforms. It operates the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service, publishes mobile applications, licenses its characters and franchises (Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon, etc.) into film and other media, and still sells traditional playing cards. This is a manufacturing, software-development, and publishing operation, not a licensing shell.
Patent-litigation posture. The tracked data show one case, with Nintendo appearing solely as a defendant in a U.S. International Trade Commission Section 337 investigation. That count profile — an operating company on the receiving end, with no plaintiff-side filings — is characteristic of a large hardware vendor defending against third-party assertions rather than of a patent assertion entity.
Notable case and context. Technology Properties Limited LLC et al. v. Acer et al. was filed July 24, 2012 and instituted by the ITC on August 21, 2012 as Inv. No. 337-TA-853, "Certain Wireless Consumer Electronics Devices and Components Thereof." Complainants TPL, Phoenix Digital Solutions, and Patriot Scientific — administered by licensing firm Alliacense — asserted U.S. Patent 5,809,336 from the Moore Microprocessor Patent (MMP) portfolio against 13 groups of wireless-device makers; Nintendo Co., Ltd. and Nintendo of America, Inc. were respondents. The ITC's November 2013 review declined to disturb the ALJ's finding that the complainants failed to prove infringement of asserted claims 6 and 13.