iQue

iQue
Type	Subsidiary of Nintendo
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Suzhou, China
Key people	Wei Yen, founder
Industry	video games
Products	Video games consoles, video games
Number of people	not disclosed
Website	http://www.iQue.com/

iQue is a Chinese video game company that is a subsidiary of Nintendo.

Foundation

China banned video game consoles in 2000, due to concerns over adverse effects in youth. As a result, in 2002, iQue was founded as a joint venture between Chinese-American scientist Wei Yen and Nintendo. Their first console, the iQue Player, was developed to circumvent the ban. It did not have the physical media of traditional consoles, and games were stored in system memory.

iQue also released Nintendo's handheld consoles in China, from the Game Boy Advance to the 3DS XL in December 2012.

Subsidiary of Nintendo

By 2013, the company became a fully owned subsidiary of Nintendo. Consoles released in China after 2013 were released under the Nintendo brand. After that point, iQue continued to support the products they had already released, and localized Nintendo's products into simplified Chinese while Nintendo Hong Kong localized products into traditional Chinese.

Video game consoles by iQue

Title	Release	Notes
iQue Player	2003
Game Boy Advance	2004	The SP and micro models were also released by iQue.
DS	2005	The lite model was also released by iQue.
DSi	2009
3DS XL	2012	No access to an e-shop.