Editing Nintendo EAD

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|align="center" bgcolor="lightblue" | '''Nintendo EAD'''

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|'''Type:''' First Party Developer

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|'''Founded:''' 1984

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|'''Bestselling Game:''' [[Super Mario Bros.]]

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|align="center" bgcolor="lightblue" | Notable Members

|align="center" | [[Eiji Aonuma]] - [[Shigeru Miyamoto]]

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|align="center" bgcolor="lightblue" | Key Franchises

|align="center" | [[Animal Crossing]] - [[F-Zero]] - [[Mario]]

|align="center" | [[Pikmin]] - [[Star Fox]] - [[The Legend of Zelda]]

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Originally known as R&D4, Nintendo EAD is Nintendo's most celebrated development team. Lead by [[Shigeru Miyamoto]], it is currently Nintendo's largest development team. EAD stands for Entertainment Analysis and Development.

R&D4 was founded in 1984. The president of Nintendo, impressed with the success of Shigeru Miyamoto's games, decided to give Miyamoto his own development team. It was the smallest development team, but they created some of the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]]'s most memorable games: the [[Mario]] and [[The Legend of Zelda]] series.

In 1989, the president of Nintendo decided to restructure the company. Most of the software developers from [[R&D2]] and [[R&D3]] were transferred to the newly renamed Nintendo EAD. They were told to focus on developing games for the [[Super Nintendo]]. They continued with the popular Mario and Zelda franchises, while creating new ones including ''[[Star Fox]]'' and ''[[F-Zero]]''. Though they didn't make as many Gameboy games as [[R&D1]], they made a few, most notably ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]''.

During the Nintendo 64 era, EAD continued to create new games in their popular franchises. In addition, they began a few new franchises. ''[[Wave Race 64]]'' and ''[[1080 Snowboarding]]'' were popular. They supported the [[Pokemon]] franchise with ''[[Pokemon Stadium]]''. However, the most significant new franchise was ''[[Animal Forest]]'', a life simulator.

With the Gamecube came new games. Nintendo EAD continued to create games for it's two key franchises: Mario and Zelda. However, the majority of it's franchises were taken over by other groups. They brought over a new version of the Japanese ''Animal Forest'' to America under the name ''[[Animal Crossing]]''. They also began a new series with ''[[Pikmin]]''

In 2005, [[Satoru Iwata]] decided to merge all of Nintendo's internal software developers into one group. [[R&D1]], [[R&D2]], and [[Nintendo Special Planning & Development]] were all merged with EAD.  However, because of the size of the group, they have been divided into smaller Software Development groups. Under this new system, Miyamoto has control over all of Nintendo's internal game development. It's currently unknown how many Software Development Groups there are, but there is information about at least six different groups.

|align="center" bgcolor="lightblue" | '''Software Development Group #3'''

|'''Manager:''' [[Eiji Aonuma]]

|'''Games:''' ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass]]''

|align="center" bgcolor="lightblue" | '''Software Development Group #?'''

|'''Manager:''' [[Takao Shimizu]]

|'''Games:''' ''[[Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat]]''

|align="center" bgcolor="lightblue" | '''Software Development Group #?'''

|'''Manager:''' [[Shinya Takahashi]]

|'''Games:''' ''[[Jam with the Band]]'', ''[[Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes Each Day]]''

|align="center" bgcolor="lightblue" | '''Software Development Group #?'''

|'''Manager:''' [[Katsuya Eguchi]]

|'''Games:''' ''[[Animal Crossing: Wild World]]'', ''[[Animal Crossing Wii]]''

|'''Manager:''' [[Hiroyuki Kimura]]

|'''Games:''' ''[[Yoshi Touch & Go]]'', ''[[Big Brain Academy]]''

===[[Super Nintendo]]===

*[[Animal Forest]]

*[[Pokemon Stadium]]

*[[Pokemon Stadium 2]]

*[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Master Quest]]

===[[Gameboy]]===

===[[Gameboy Color]]===

===[[Gameboy Advance]]===

*[[Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes Each Day]]