Nintendo Research & Engineering Development

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Nintendo Research & Engineering Development
Type Division of Nintendo
Founded 1996
Headquarters Kyoto, Japan
Key people Satoru Okada, manager (1996-2012)
Industry Video games
Products Video game consoles and hardware
Number of people
Website http://www.nintendo.com/

Nintendo Research & Engineering Development (開発技術部, RED) was formed in 1996.

History

In 1996 when Gunpei Yokoi, manager of Nintendo Research & Development 1 resigned from Nintendo, then-president of Nintendo, Hiroshi Yamauchi, created Nintendo Research & Engineering Development and appointed Satoru Okada its general manager.

The hardware development team of Nintendo Research & Development 1 was reassigned to Nintendo Integrated Research & Development, while the software development team remained at Nintendo Research & Development 1.

Throughout the lifespan of the development, Nintendo Research & Engineering Development designed Nintendo's portable video game consoles.

In January 2012, Satoru Okada retired from Nintendo. On February 16, 2012, Nintendo RED was merged into Nintendo Integrated Research & Development, which effectively combined the portable and home console development teams into one division.

Video game consoles by Nintendo Integrated Research & Development

Title Released Notes
Game Boy Light 1998
Game Boy Color 1998
Game Boy Advance 2001
Game Boy Advance SP 2003
Nintendo DS 2004
Game Boy Micro 2005
Nintendo DS Lite 2006
Nintendo DSi 2008
Nintendo DSi XL 2009
Nintendo 3DS 2011

Video game peripherals by Nintendo Research & Engineering Development

Title Released Notes
Game Boy Camera 1998 Camera for the Game Boy.
Game Boy Printer 1998 Printer for the Game Boy.
Nintendo e-Reader 2002 Dotcode scanner to load data on GBA.
Play-Yan 2005 A GBA MP3 Player released in Japan. It was released in China as MP4 Player for GBA.
Nintendo MP3 Player 2005 Updated GBA MP3 Player released in Japan as Play-Yan Micro.
Circle Pad Pro 2011 A device that adds a circle pad to the Nintendo 3DS.
Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure
keyboard
2011 Keyboard for the Nintendo DS.
Circle Pad Pro XL 2012 A device that adds a circle pad to the Nintendo 3DS XL.