Nintendo Integrated Research & Development
Year Title Platform ( s )
1983 Punch-Out ! ! Arcade
1984 Super Punch-Out ! ! Arcade
1985 Arm Wrestling Arcade
1985 Famicom/NES Game Pak Nintendo Entertainment System
1987 Mike Tyson 's Punch-Out ! Nintendo Entertainment System
1990 StarTropics Nintendo Entertainment System
1994 Zoda 's Revenge : StarTropics II Nintendo Entertainment System
1994 Super Punch-Out ! ! Super Nintendo Entertainment System
1996 Nintendo 64 Hardware
1996 Pilotwings 64 Nintendo 64
1996 Controller Pak Nintendo 64
1997 Transfer Pak Nintendo 64
1997 Rumble Pak Nintendo 64
1998 Expansion Pak Nintendo 64
1999 Nintendo 64DD Nintendo 64
2001 Nintendo GameCube Hardware
2001 Nintendo GameCube controller GameCube
2001 Memory Card GameCube
2002 Memory Card 251 GameCube
2002 WaveBird Wireless Controller GameCube
Hardware developed
General Manager : Genyo Takeda The Integrated Research & Development Department ( or IRD ) was the hardware development team responsible for all of Nintendo 's home video game consoles and associated peripherals . The department was split into five different groups who worked together on most projects , with each group generally focusing on a different aspect of product design . The manager , Genyo Takeda , and most of the chief engineers originated from the Nintendo R & D3 hardware division .
The Nintendo IRD Division was broken up into two departments: the Integrated Research & Development Department (or IRD), which focused on the development of Nintendo home video game console hardware and associated peripherals, and the Research & Engineering Development Department (or RED), which focused on the development of Nintendo handheld video game console hardware and associated peripherals. Both departments were split into several sub-groups. Unlike the software departments, the hardware groups generally worked together on most projects. On February 16, 2013, Nintendo announced that the Nintendo Research & Engineering Department (or RED), the former hardware group specialized in all engineering and technological aspects of Nintendo's handheld development, was absorbed into Nintendo IRD Division. On September 16, 2015, IRD merged with the Nintendo System Development division, becoming the Nintendo Platform Technology Development.