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Nintendo Software Planning and Development is a structure within Nintendo that consists of four separate teams that oversees the development of primary Nintendo franchises not being made by Nintendo themselves and also creates games as well. The fourth team works primarily on Wii Channels. They were created in 2004. The managers for the teams are as follows:

• Nintendo SPD Production Group 1 - Yoshio Sakamoto (formerly) 
• Nintendo SPD Production Group 2 - Hitoshi Yamagami
• Nintendo SPD Production Group 3 - Kensuke Tanabe
• Nintendo SPD Production Group 4 - Hiroshi Sato

In 2011, Yoshio Sakamoto was promoted to General Manager of Software Planning and Development Department, his successor as head of SPD1 is currently unknown. 

Games developedEdit

• Mahjong DS - Group 2
• Rhythm Heaven - Group 1
• Rhythm Tengoku - Group 1
• Tetris DS - Group 2
• Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha Kanshuu: Shiranai Mamade wa Son o Suru Mono ya Okane no Shikumi DS - Group 4 [1]

Games co-developedEdit

• Battalion Wars - Group 3
• Battalion Wars 2 - Group 3
• Dr. Mario Online Rx - Group 2
• DS Letter Training - Group 4
• Excite Truck - Group 3
• Fatal Frame IV - Group 4
• Fatal Frame: Deep Crimson Butterfly - Group 4
• Geist - Group 3
• Kousoku Card Battle: Card Hero - Group 1
• Mario Strikers Charged - Group 3
• Metroid Prime - Group 3
• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Group 3
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Group 3
• Mother 3 - Group 3
• Mystery Case Files: MillionHeir - Group 3
• Odama - Group 4
• Planet Puzzle League - Group 2
• Punch-Out!! (Wii) - Group 3
• Sakura Momoko no Ukiuki Carnival- Group Unknown
• Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir - Group 4
• Super Mario Strikers - Group 3
• Super Princess Peach - Group 2
• WarioWare: Smooth Moves - Group 1
• WarioWare: Touched! - Group 1
• WarioWare: Twisted! - Group 1
• Wii Party - Group 4
• Tokyo Crash Mobs -Group Unknown