commonly abbreviated as Nintendo IRD, was a Japanese developments division that handled everything related to producing

Nintendo is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles. Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produce ...

's console hardware and associated peripherals. Originally established in the 1970s with engineer

Genyo Takeda is a retired Japanese game designer and executive who worked for the video game company Nintendo. Takeda was formerly the general manager of Nintendo's Integrated Research & Development division, and was the co-representative director and "Tech ...

acting as manager, Nintendo Research & Development No. 3 Department and part of the ''Manufacturing Division'', the department was responsible for various hardware technologies and even developed several arcade and console titles. In 2000, as technology evolved into the 3D era, Takeda's group spun-off and established itself as a division into ''Integrated Research & Development Division'', and began spending longer periods of time researching and testing the various and rapidly evolving hardware that would power Nintendo's next generation of consoles. The Nintendo IRD Division was broken up into two departments: the ''Integrated Research & Development Department'' (or ''IRD''), which focused on the development of Nintendo

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hardware and associated peripherals, and the ''Research & Engineering Development Department'' (or ''RED''), which focused on the development of Nintendo

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hardware and associated peripherals. Both departments were split into several sub-groups. Unlike the software departments, the hardware groups generally worked together on most projects. On February 16, 2013, Nintendo announced that the ''Nintendo Research & Engineering Department'' (or ''RED''), the former hardware group specialized in all engineering and technological aspects of Nintendo's handheld development, was absorbed into Nintendo IRD Division. On September 16, 2015, IRD merged with the

Nintendo System Development commonly abbreviated as Nintendo SDD and formerly known as Nintendo Network Business & Development (NBD), Nintendo Network Service Development (NSD), and Nintendo Special Planning & Development (SPD), was a Japanese division located in the Nint ...

division, becoming the

Nintendo Platform Technology Development commonly abbreviated as Nintendo PTD, is a Japanese hardware development division for Nintendo. The division was created in September 2015 after the merger of Nintendo's Integrated Research & Development and Nintendo System Development, System D ...

History

In December 1980, Genyo Takeda was promoted to manager of the Nintendo R&D3 department.

Hardware developed

General Manager:

The ''Integrated Research & Development Department'' (or ''IRD'') was the hardware development team responsible for all of Nintendo's

s and associated peripherals. The department was split into five different groups who worked together on most projects, with each group generally focusing on a different aspect of product design. The manager,

, and most of the chief engineers originated from the Nintendo R&D3 hardware division.

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