Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development Division,[a] abbreviated Nintendo EPD, is the largest division within the Japanese video game company
Nintendo. The division focuses on developing and producing video games, mobile apps, and other related entertainment software for the company. Nintendo EPD was established in September 2015 after merging their
Entertainment Analysis & Development and
Software Planning & Development divisions.
The division assumed both of its predecessors' roles, focusing on the
development of games and software for Nintendo platforms and
mobile devices; it also manages and licenses the company's various
intellectual properties, alongside producing and supervising development for external studios.
Shinya Takahashi, former general manager of Nintendo SPD,[4] has the same title in EPD, with
Yoshiaki Koizumi,
Katsuya Eguchi,
Eiji Aonuma, and
Hisashi Nogami as deputy general managers, and,
Kensuke Tanabe,
Yoshio Sakamoto and
Takashi Tezuka as senior officers. The others had been in such positions since the division's formation, and Aonuma, Tanabe, and Nogami were promoted into higher positions within the division in 2019.[3][5] By 2023, Takahashi and Koizumi were promoted to more senior positions, with Takayuki Shimamura being named deputy general manager and Aonuma and sound designer
Koji Kondo named senior officers.[6][7][8][9]
Structure
Mainly located in Kyoto, the Nintendo division works similarly to its two predecessors before the merger and is divided into many groups. It has ten production groups responsible for development or production of games, each of them having their own managers, producers and project leads working on specific series and focus, with them using the pool of talents in the division for each project. In the overall division, the general manager, deputy general managers, and senior officers oversee different aspects in those production groups. There are currently 10 production groups in Nintendo EPD, and the known groups in the department are:
Production Group No. 6 oversee and produce games developed by external studios and published by Nintendo, such as the Paper Mario, Metroid Prime and Luigi's Mansion series.[20]
Smart Device Production Group, with group manager
Hideki Konno, develop
smartphone games alongside other EPD groups as well as produce games by external studios.[23]
Games developed
List of video games developed by Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
^Nintendo Labo is a brand of cardboard-based DIY construction sets that use the Nintendo Switch, with included software, and its Joy-Con controllers in a variety of ways.
Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development Division,[a] abbreviated Nintendo EPD, is the largest division within the Japanese video game company
Nintendo. The division focuses on developing and producing video games, mobile apps, and other related entertainment software for the company. Nintendo EPD was established in September 2015 after merging their
Entertainment Analysis & Development and
Software Planning & Development divisions.
The division assumed both of its predecessors' roles, focusing on the
development of games and software for Nintendo platforms and
mobile devices; it also manages and licenses the company's various
intellectual properties, alongside producing and supervising development for external studios.
Shinya Takahashi, former general manager of Nintendo SPD,[4] has the same title in EPD, with
Yoshiaki Koizumi,
Katsuya Eguchi,
Eiji Aonuma, and
Hisashi Nogami as deputy general managers, and,
Kensuke Tanabe,
Yoshio Sakamoto and
Takashi Tezuka as senior officers. The others had been in such positions since the division's formation, and Aonuma, Tanabe, and Nogami were promoted into higher positions within the division in 2019.[3][5] By 2023, Takahashi and Koizumi were promoted to more senior positions, with Takayuki Shimamura being named deputy general manager and Aonuma and sound designer
Koji Kondo named senior officers.[6][7][8][9]
Structure
Mainly located in Kyoto, the Nintendo division works similarly to its two predecessors before the merger and is divided into many groups. It has ten production groups responsible for development or production of games, each of them having their own managers, producers and project leads working on specific series and focus, with them using the pool of talents in the division for each project. In the overall division, the general manager, deputy general managers, and senior officers oversee different aspects in those production groups. There are currently 10 production groups in Nintendo EPD, and the known groups in the department are:
Production Group No. 6 oversee and produce games developed by external studios and published by Nintendo, such as the Paper Mario, Metroid Prime and Luigi's Mansion series.[20]
Smart Device Production Group, with group manager
Hideki Konno, develop
smartphone games alongside other EPD groups as well as produce games by external studios.[23]
Games developed
List of video games developed by Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
^Nintendo Labo is a brand of cardboard-based DIY construction sets that use the Nintendo Switch, with included software, and its Joy-Con controllers in a variety of ways.