™
and Wii
™ home consoles, and Nintendo 3DS
™ and
Nintendo DS
™ families of portable systems. Since 1983, when
it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System
™, Nintendo has
sold more than 4.3 billion video games and more than 680 million
hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii U,
Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL, as well as the Game Boy
™,
Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi
™ and Nintendo DSi
XL
™, Super NES
™, Nintendo 64
™, Nintendo
GameCube
™ and Wii systems. It has also created industry icons
that have become well-known, household names such as Mario
™,
Donkey Kong
™, Metroid
™, Zelda
™ and
Pokémon
™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America
Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s
operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about
Nintendo, please visit the company’s website at
http://www.nintendo.com.
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http://press.nintendo.com,
a password-protected site. To obtain a login, please contact Deanna
Avila at 213-438-8742 or
dtalamantezavila@golin.com.
Users can receive instant Nintendo information by subscribing to the
site’s RSS feed.
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