The Nintendo Technology Development division was created on September 16, 2015, as part of a company-wide organizational restructure that took place under Nintendo's then newly appointed president,
Tatsumi Kimishima. The division was created after the merger of two Nintendo's divisions, the
Integrated Research & Development (IRD), which specialized in hardware development, and
System Development (SDD), which specialized in operating system development and its development environment and network services. On April 27, 2017, following the retirement of general manager and long-time Nintendo hardware developer
Genyo Takeda, Ko Shiota was appointed as his successor. On April 13, 2018,
Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development general manager Shinya Takahashi revealed that Nintendo was working on a new hardware video game system. On January 16, 2025 the new console was revealed to be called the
Nintendo Switch 2, releasing on June 5, 2025. By 2023, the division's name was shortened to
Nintendo Technology Development. == Products developed ==