What is Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development?
{{Infobox company | name = Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development Division | logo = Nintendo gray logo.svg | logo_size = 200px | logo_alt = Nintendo's logotype | logo_caption = | image = Nintendo Headquarters - panoramio.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = Outside of the Nintendo Central Office in Kyoto, Japanm nn..mm | image_caption = Outside of the Nintendo Central Office in [[Kyoto]], where the division was housed for most of its existence | native_name = 任天堂情報開発本部 | native_name_lang = ja | romanized_name = Nintendō Jōhō Kaihatsu Honbu | former_name = Nintendo Research & Development No.4 Department | type = [[Division (business)|Division]] | industry = [[Video game industry|Video games]] | fate = Merged with [[Nintendo Software Planning & Development]] | predecessors = {{Unbulleted list|[[Nintendo R&D1]]|[[Nintendo R&D2]]}} | successor = [[Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development]] | founded = {{Start date and age|September 30, 1983}} | founder = [[Hiroshi Yamauchi]] | defunct = {{End date|2015|9|16}} | hq_location_city = [[Kyoto]] | hq_location_country = Japan | num_locations = 2 (Kyoto and [[Tokyo]]) | area_served = | products = | brands = | services = [[Video game development]] | owner = | members = | members_year = <!-- Year of members data (if known) --> | num_employees = | num_employees_year = | parent = [[Nintendo]] | divisions = | subsid = | module = <!-- Used to embed other templates --> | website = | footnotes = }} The '''Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development Division''' ('''Nintendo EAD''' for short) is [[Nintendo]]'s biggest game studio. It was responsible for making many of Nintendo's biggest games, including the [[Mario (series)|''Mario'' series]] and [[The Legend of Zelda (series)|''The Legend of Zelda'' series]]. It was merged with [[Nintendo Software Planning & Development|Nintendo SPD]] in September 2015 to create the [[Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development|Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development Division]]. {{video-game-stub}} [[Category:Nintend