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Nintendo Australia Pty. Ltd. (NAL) is Oceania's local head office for sales, licensing and distribution of video game products and other intellectual properties created by Nintendo and other companies. It is currently headquartered in Scoresby, Victoria, was established in 1994, and is a private company wholly owned by Nintendo Co., Ltd. in Japan. Prior distribution of Nintendo products inside Australia had been handled by Mattel. The company was originally jointly managed by Susumu Tanaka of Nintendo UK and Graham Kerry who worked prior as the general Manager of Mattel.〔Nintendo Magazine System: issue 9, page 3〕 It is currently managed by Tom Enoki, who took over from Yuji Bando in 2014, who had succeeded Rose Lappin as Managing Director in March 2010.〔Aussie-Nintendo.com - Rose takes the reins at Nintendo Australia. http://www.aussie-nintendo.com/?v=news&p=18138〕 Rose Lappin had worked for Nintendo since the early 1990s when Nintendo's products were distributed in Australia by Mattel. General Manager of Nintendo UK, David Yarnton was Nintendo Australia's Director of Sales & Marketing from March 1995 to September 2003. Aside from distributing its own products, the company also distributes some games for its systems by developers including Capcom and Atlus. Nintendo Australia distributes Nintendo's products to most of the Oceanic region. Distribution of Nintendo's products in New Zealand was handled by Monaco Corporation Ltd, then Softprint Interactive Ltd, until Softprint went into bankruptcy. There was a major delay of Nintendo Australia's products in New Zealand after Softprint's bankruptcy until Nintendo Australia took over marketing and distribution of their products in New Zealand in the middle of 2008. Nintendo Australia then heavily marketed the DS and Wii in New Zealand throughout September and October 2008. Nintendo Australia also acts as the Australian office for The Pokémon Company and handles all licensing for the Pokémon products and also handles licensing of Nintendo's other IPs to Toy Companies like Takara Tomy. Nintendo Australia handles all licensing of the Pokémon anime, and has given the Australian distribution rights to Magna Pacific. Former distributors were Siren Entertainment and Shock. ==Sales performance== Nintendo Australia has sold over 12 million video games, over 2.5 million Game Boys and over 2 million consoles by 1999 including over half a million Nintendo 64 consoles〔Nintendo Magazine System: issue 70 January 1999, page 6〕 and 162,936 GameCubes to the third quarter of 2006.〔Aussie-Nintendo.com - GameCube barely exceeds 160K in Aussie life. http://aussie-nintendo.com/?v=news&p=8146〕 The Wii has sold over 2 million as of November 2010 and the Nintendo DS has sold over 3 million units to December 2010 making the system the best selling console in Australia for six years in a row.〔 The Nintendo 3DS 200,000 in its first 37 weeks and Tom Enoki announced in September 2014 that over 700,000 units have been sold in Australia.〔 The Pokémon video games have sold over 2 million copies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nintendo Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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