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Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 10 is a video game developer under the Nintendo Entertainment Planning and Development structure. The general manager and producer of this one is Hiroyuki Kimura. The group was established as EAD4 and works on specific franchises including sidescrolling Mario games, and the Pikmin franchise. Initially EAD4 was created specifically to work on major handheld titles, though the division soon absorbed the team that worked on the Pikmin games.
Takashi Tezuka mentioned in an interview with Nintendo Power than many people from Nintendo R&D2, the creators of the Super Mario Advance series, were brought over to this group, and that they were very excited about working on New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS in 2006. In 2008, EAD 4 recreated Pikmin and Pikmin 2 for the Wii's New Play Control! series. In 2009 they created the follow-up to New Super Mario Bros., calling it New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
Following New Super Mario Bros. Wii's success, Nintendo thought it would be best to have the next Super Mario game to be developed by the younger generation, which resulted in New Super Mario Bros. 2 (the sequel to the DS game and a follow-up to the Wii game), a 2012 game for the Nintendo 3DS, headed by the future director of the Splatoon series, Yusuke Amano. Meanwhile, to ensure that at least one of Nintendo's key franchises made it to the Wii U's launch, Nintendo fast-tracked another New Super Mario Bros. game based on a tech demo they premiered at the Wii U's reveal called New Super Mario Bros. U (a sequel to the Wii game and a follow-up to the 3DS game), also released in 2012, developed mostly by the veterans of the Wii iteration. During the development of this title, the team realized the development tools could be converted into a good level editor. After working on it for a couple years, the team created Super Mario Maker.
List of video games[]
| Year | Title | Platform |
|---|---|---|
| As Nintendo EAD Software Group No. 4 | ||
| 2004 | Super Mario 64 DS | Nintendo DS |
| 2005 | Yoshi Touch & Go | Nintendo DS |
| Big Brain Academy | Nintendo DS | |
| 2006 | New Super Mario Bros. | Nintendo DS |
| 2007 | Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree | Wii |
| 2008 | New Play Control! Pikmin | Wii |
| 2009 | New Play Control! Pikmin 2 | Wii |
| New Super Mario Bros. Wii | Wii | |
| 2012 | New Super Mario Bros. 2 | Nintendo 3DS |
| New Super Mario Bros. U | Wii U | |
| 2013 | New Super Luigi U | Wii U |
| Pikmin 3 | Wii U | |
| 2015 | Super Mario Maker | Wii U |
| As Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 10 | ||
| 2016 | Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS (with NST) | Nintendo 3DS |
| Super Mario Run | Mobile | |
| 2019 | New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe | Switch |
| Super Mario Maker 2 | Switch | |
| 2020 | Pikmin 3 Deluxe (with Eighting) | Switch |
| 2023 | Pikmin 4 (with Eighting) | Switch |
| Super Mario Bros. Wonder | Switch | |
| Nintendo developers | |
|---|---|
| Nintendo EPD | Group 1 • Group 2 • Group 3 • Group 4 • Group 5 • Group 6 • Group 7 • Group 8 • Group 9 • Group 10 • Smart Device Production Group |
| First party developers | 1-Up Studio • IQue Ltd. • Mario Club • Monolith Soft • NDcube • Next Level Games • NERD • Nintendo Pictures • NST • NTD • Retro Studios • Shiver Entertainment • SRD |
| Partners | Arika • Camelot • CAProduction • Creatures Inc. • Cygames • DeNA • Game Freak • Genius Sonority • Good-Feel • Grezzo • HAL Laboratory • Indieszero • Intelligent Systems • PlatinumGames Bandai Namco • Koei Tecmo • Sega |
| Defunct | Nintendo R&D1 • Nintendo R&D2 • Nintendo R&D3 • Nintendo R&D4 • Nintendo EAD • Nintendo SPD AlphaDream • Ambrella • Cing • Headstrong Games • Inis • Marigul Management • Mitchell Corporation • Vanpool |