Talk:History of Nintendo

Etymology of the name Nintendo. Could someone please include that? 24.229.188.194 05:58, 12 January 2007 (UTC) ==Date of Founding is 22nd September not 23rd according to Nintendour of Japan's website

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/outline/index.html

創　業 明治22年9月 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.158.53.209 (talk) 23:18, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

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Meaning of Nintendo
According to this the meaning of Nintendo is not "leave luck to heaven." It seems like it means something more like "entrust heaven's temple". Can anyone confirm it's meaning? See also: 任 天 堂 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adamdann (talk • contribs) 19:25, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Also, the cited link for Nintendo's name leads to a 2006 archived version of a Nintendo website, which appears to use an outdated version of Flash, and their link to download that version of Flash does not work, so I'm unable to view that source. Phil Bond (talk) 16:07, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

this page fails to mention the gameboy micro
this page fails to mention the gameboy micro which was released just alittle before the DS

also i think it lacks explanation for the gameboy advanced which was a success 219.94.166.8 (talk) 14:53, 6 April 2009 (UTC) By amigojapan april 6 2009

Nintendo DSi XL
This article fails to mention anything about the advancement in the Nintendo DS series. The Nintendo DSi XL comes out in a few months, and has already came out in Japan. Can someone fix this?

CelineDeStar (talk) 15:26, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

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1951: "Nintendo Koppai" or "Nintendo Karuta"?
That Nintendo changed their name to 任天堂骨牌株式会社 in 1951 is uncontroversial - see Nintendo of Japan's official history page. But as it turns out - there doesn't seem to be any reliable sources proving the "骨牌" bit is really read "Koppai" rather than "Karuta", as the kanji used can be read in both ways. The more common reading by far is "かるた". Looking at furigana.info which shows the more common furigana used in books to denote the reading based on titles in Aozora Bunko, a digital library "encompass[ing] several thousands of works of Japanese-language fiction and non-fiction [including] out-of-copyright books or works that the authors wish to make freely available," the "koppai" reading doesn't even make the list. 92.7% of the time the kanji has appeared in furigana in this collection, it's been some variety of "karuta/garuta". Sometimes it's "toranpu" and "fuda", but never "koppai". It's also worth noting that on the sign of Nintendo's old offices in Kyoto, there's a sign reading "かるた・トランプ 製造元山内任天堂" - "Karuta Toranpu Seizoumoto Yamanouchi Nintendo". Notice "Karuta" rather than "Koppai" (this is certainly not conclusive evidence for one reading or the other, but should still be considered). (picture:, source: ).

I was able to find one somewhat weak evidence for "Nintendo Koppai" in a contemporary source: Japanasia Japan Trade Directory, 1954. Still, this isn't conclusive either. Might it be worth pointing out (in a note, or in the text) that the name might have been "Nintendo Karuta" rather than "Nintendo Koppai"? As for a non-origial research source, there's plenty of books in English about Nintendo claiming the company name was changed "Nintendo Karuta" rather than "Nintendo Koppai" on Google Books, among them Nintendo: The Company and Its Founders (Mary Firestone, 2011), Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands: Durable goods (Janice Jorgensen, 1994), Encyclopedia of Global Industries (Diane M Sawinski, 1996), an article in Asiaweek (Volume 17, Issues 14-26, 1991), etc.110.165.185.203 (talk) 03:23, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Their name was definitely "Nintendo Karuta" - see this official Nintendo of Japan document: (search for 任天堂かるた) 24.17.19.196 (talk) 20:05, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

History section on Nintendo article vs this one
This page seems to be somewhat inferior to the History section on the main Nintendo article. I'd imagine that section would be much shorter and that anything there would also be listed here, but it appears to be longer, more detailed, and better-written than this article is. Ringtail Raider (talk) 08:54, 21 July 2023 (UTC)