Nintendo

Nintendo Company Ltd. is a video game developer, publisher, and home console and handheld manufacturer. They were founded in 1889 in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi as a manufacturer of Hanafuda playing cards. Following the success of their cards, Nintendo attempted to jump into various other businesses with little to absolutely no success until their entry into the video game market. Translated to English, Nintendo means "Leave luck to heaven". They are responsible for giving Majesco the rights to produce the GBA Video lineup, as well as publishing the Pokémon anime's Video Paks.

Background
They entered the video game market with the permission to distribute the Odyssey to the Japanese audience. Soon enough they'd make their own consoles and handheld units such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Nintendo 64, and Game Boy Advance, among many others. They've developed quite the name for themselves for their multitude of video game series including, but certainly not limited to, Mario, Pokémon, and The Legend of Zelda.

Their Nintendo DS and Wii soared to the top of the charts. The Wii had sold more units than Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation 3, at the same time the Nintendo DS has also sold more units than Sony's PlayStation Portable. They released the Nintendo Switch after the underwhelming performance of the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, as they had performed at a fraction of their predecessors.