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Nintendo employee number breakdown - main company, major/minor affiliates

by rawmeatcowboy
01 July 2016
GN Version 5.0

Nintendo Company Limited (Global) – 5,120 Total Employees

Nintendo (Japan) – 2,009 Employees
Nintendo of America – 1,257 Employees
Nintendo of Europe (includes regional branches, such as Nintendo France) – 868 Employees
Nintendo of Australia – 75 Employees
iQue (Nintendo subsidiary for the Chinese market) – ? Employees
Mario Club (debugging) – 305 Employees
ND Cube – ? Employees
Nintendo European Research & Development – 30+ Employees
Nintendo Network Service Database (subsidiary operating the Nintendo Network) – ? Employees
Nintendo Technology Development – 30+ Employees
Nintendo Software Technology – 50+ Employees
Retro Studios – 70+ Employees
Monolith Soft – 109 Employees
1-Up Studio – 30 Employees
NES Merchandising (division of Nintendo of America) – ? Employees

Major affiliates

The Pokémon Company – 400 Employees
HAL Laboratory – 149 Employees
Intelligent Systems – 134 Employees
SRD – 107 Employees
Creatures – 84 Employees
Genius Sonority – 22 Employees
Pux – ? Employees
Warpstar (managing Kirby animated series, Kirby rights) – ? Employees

Contract / Minor affiliate

GameFreak – 108 Employees
DeNa
Alpha Dream
Vanpool
Hatena
Grezzo
Next Level Games
Headstrong Games
Indies Zero
Camelot Software
Digipen Studios
First Avenue Entertainment (Seattle Mariners)

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