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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.

With the transition to EPD, the team has not been very active with only a few releases and mostly small. Some of the team did assist with Super Mario Run but, otherwise, the team's first new release was in 2019 with the sequel to Super Mario Maker.

List of video games

Super Mario 64 DS - Nintendo DS
Yoshi Touch & Go - Nintendo DS
Big Brain Academy - Nintendo DS
New Super Mario Bros. - Nintendo DS
Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree - Wii
New Play Control! Pikmin - Wii
New Play Control! Pikmin 2 - Wii
New Super Mario Bros. Wii - Wii
New Super Mario Bros. 2 - Nintendo 3DS
New Super Mario Bros. U - Wii U
New Super Luigi U - Wii U
Pikmin 3 - Wii U
Super Mario Maker - Wii U
Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS (with NST) - Nintendo 3DS
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - Switch
Super Mario Maker 2 - Switch

Key people

Hiroyuki Kimura - Manager and producer of video games. Director of Yoshi Touch & Go.
Shigefumi Hino - Big Brain Academy, New Super Mario Bros., director of Pikmin series, creator of Yoshi.
Shigeyuki Asuke - Director of New Super Mario Bros., worked heavily on Yoshi Touch & Go and Big Brain Academy.
Yuji Kando - Director of Pikmin 3, supervisor on the series

Nintendo developers
Nintendo EPD	Group 1 • Group 2 • Group 3 • Group 4 • Group 5 • Group 6 • Group 7 • Group 8 • Group 9 • Group 10
First party developers	Monolith Soft • NDcube • 1-Up Studio • NST • Next Level Games • NERD • Nintendo Pictures • Retro Studios • 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

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-'''Nintendo EAD Software Group No. 2''' is a video game developer under the [[Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development]] structure that is owned by [[Nintendo]]. [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] and [[Takashi Tezuka]] are the heads of this group and the others (which are numbered 1-4 and Tokyo), though the general manager and producer of this one is [[Hiroyuki Kimura]]. As the other numbered groups, group number 4 works specifically on series, which include handheld [[Mario series|''Mario'' titles]] and the ''Big Brain Academy''. It's assumed that many of the people who worked on the ''[[Pikmin]]'' series were moved to this group, and it's possible that this team will create ''[[Pikmin 3]]'' for [[Wii]]. Takashi Tezuka mentioned in an interview with [[Nintendo Power]] than many people from the ''Super Mario Advance'' series were brought over to this group, and that they were very excited about working on ''New Super Mario Bros.'' In [[2008]] EAD 4 recreated ''[[Pikmin]]'' and ''[[Pikmin 2]]'' for the Wii's ''[[New Play Control!]]'' series.
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+| name         = Nintendo EPD 10
+| image        = [[File:EAD 4.jpg|center|220px]]
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+| founded      = 2004
+| headquarters = [[File:JP.png|15px]] Kyoto, Japan
+| people       = [[Hiroyuki Kimura]]
+| products     = ''[[Mario (series)|New Super Mario Bros.'' series]], ''[[Pikmin (series)|Pikmin'' series]], ''[[Big Brain Academy (series)|Big Brain Academy'' series]], ''[[Yoshi Touch & Go]]'', ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''
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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 (video game)|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]]''.
+With the transition to EPD, the team has not been very active with only a few releases and mostly small. Some of the team did assist with ''[[Super Mario Run]]'' but, otherwise, the team's first new release was in 2019 with the sequel to Super Mario Maker.
 ==List of video games==
 *''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]'' - Nintendo DS
 *''[[Yoshi Touch & Go]]'' - Nintendo DS
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 *''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' - Nintendo DS
 *''[[Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree]]'' - Wii
-*''[[New Play Control!]] [[Pikmin]]'' - Wii
+*''[[New Play Control!]] [[Pikmin (video game)|Pikmin]]'' - Wii
 *''[[New Play Control!]] [[Pikmin 2]]'' - Wii
+*''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'' - Wii
+*''[[New Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' - Nintendo 3DS
-Note that before the team was created, most of the staff had worked on the [[Game Boy Advance]] ''Super Mario'' remakes.
+*''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'' - Wii U
+*''[[New Super Luigi U]]'' - Wii U
+*''[[Pikmin 3]]'' - Wii U
+*''[[Super Mario Maker]]'' - Wii U
+*''[[Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS]]'' (with [[NST]]) - Nintendo 3DS
+*''[[New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe]]'' - [[Nintendo Switch|Switch]]
+*''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]'' - Switch
 ==Key people==
 *[[Hiroyuki Kimura]] - Manager and producer of video games. Director of ''Yoshi Touch & Go''.
-*[[Shigefumi Hino]] - ''Big Brain Academy'', ''New Super Mario Bros.'', director of ''Pikmin'' series, creator of [[Yoshi]].
+*[[Shigefumi Hino]] - ''Big Brain Academy'', ''New Super Mario Bros.'', director of ''Pikmin'' series, creator of [[Yoshi (character)|Yoshi]].
-*[[Shigeyuki Asuke]] - Director of ''New Super Mario Bros.'', worked heavily on ''Yoshi Touch & Go'' and ''Big Brain Academy.
+*[[Shigeyuki Asuke]] - Director of ''New Super Mario Bros.'', worked heavily on ''Yoshi Touch & Go'' and ''Big Brain Academy.''
-*[[Yoshinobu Tomoaki]] - Director of both ''Brain Age'' titles.
+*[[Yuji Kando]] - Director of ''Pikmin 3'', supervisor on the series
-==See also==
-*[[Nintendo EAD Software Group No. 1]] - ''Mario Kart'' and ''Nintendogs'' series.
-*[[Nintendo EAD Software Group No. 2]] - ''Animal Crossing and ''Wii'' series.
-*[[Nintendo EAD Software Group No. 3]] - ''Legend of Zelda'' series.
-*[[Nintendo EAD Software Group Tokyo]] - ''Donkey Kong Jungle Beat'' and ''Super Mario Galaxy''.
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