The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company

The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company is an American-Japanese-Canadian multinational entertainment and media conglomerate owned by Disney, Inc. and headquartered in Donkey Kong House in Winter Haven, Florida.
Formed from the merger of Nintendo and Sega Sammy Group on January 1, 2021 and officially established by Liam Mulvena on February 1, 2021, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company was divided into two commercial entertainment segments: Donkey Kong Enterprises and Sonic Media. Donkey Kong Enterprises is best known for its film, television, online gaming, and digital content properties through its Nintendo, Netflix, PBS, Square Enix, Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Toho, Ubisoft, Mattel, Riot Games, Televisa and Univision brands, while Sonic Media focused on varieties of franchise and library entertainment through its Sega Sammy Group, Bandai Namco, Pathé, Viz Media, The Jim Henson Company, DreamWorks Animation, and Naughty Dog brands, as well as a 95% interest stake in multinational automotive company NASCA. The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company is also best known for adapting the Super Smash Bros. franchise into film, television, streaming, online gaming, and theme park content. 
Upon its founding, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company reached over 100 million subscribers and has become one of the most popular profitable media companies in history.
==Introduction==
Following the success of Pokémon Detective Pikachu in May 2019, Nintendo announced plans to create new conglomerate entertainment value for $ 767,000.7 million by designing its concepts The Onward Company and The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company. The Onward Company will focus on several new next-gen entertainment from all movies, television, games, toys and consumer products, as well as theme parks nowhere, while The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company will focus on multiple films, television, online gaming and mobile entertainment products. Liam Mulvena (then known as KirbyGorillaz Fanatic2020 and now known as KeroroClaptrap PikachuAnimations) announced "I was about time to upgrade everything to bring the next generation by preventing Viacom and CBS Corporation from re-merging as we go out to experience the whole new generation of entertainment, and it will just be made up of new consumer products everywhere." 
At this point, Nintendo has launched its Onward conglomerates to acquire several companies between June 2019 and mid-2020, including the rights to Five Nights at Freddy's. In August 2020, Onward Conglomerates acquirer, manager and general entertainment maker Lisa Robinson stated that The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company will focus on the most memorable modern entertainment output content behind Nintendo Corporation, Sega Holdings, Crypton Future Media, Rayman Ubisoft Entertainment Franchise, miHoYo Technology, 5th Cell Entertainment, Supercell, SpaceApe Games, SuperMono Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Studio Trigger, Level5 Inc, Toei Animation, Google, Gainax, Universal Pictures, Illumination Entertainment, EA, PopCap, Paramount Animation, Veewo Games, WayForward Technologies, Metronomik Co Ltd., Vooz Character System, Jetix, Baobab Studios, Konami, Sony Pictures Animation Films (except for The Emoji Movie), Rovio Entertainment, Rovio Stars, ZeptoLab Gaming, Dinosaur Polo Club, Line Friends, 4Kids Entertainment, Toho Animation, AMC Movie Theaters Home Video, CineWorld World Cinemas Programming, Hanazuki: Full of Treasures, Super Phantom Cat, Shantae, Regular Show, Cat Girl Without Salad, No Straight Roads, Ninjala, Supercell, Mattel, Generation One series from Hasbro's Transformers franchise, Sword Art Online, Kill La Kill, 2Spot Studio, The Adventures of Super Mario Brothers, Scribblenauts, Splatoon, Another, Star VS The Forces Of Evil, Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart, Outfit7, Bloody Bunny and the Hyperdimension Neptunia franchise created by Neptune Holdings. The Onward Company's upcoming entertainment experiences included several hit entertainment varieties including Viacom, Bethesda Game Studios, Deep Silver Inc, Marvel, Spike Chunsoft, Blumhouse Productions, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Funimation, Nickelodeon, AnimeLab, Activison, Mojang, FOX, Pixar Films (except Toy Story 1, 2, 3, 4, Onward, The Good Dinosaur, Soul, A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc., Luca, Monsters University, etc.), Steel Wool Studios, Yggdrazil Group, Scott Cawthon, Adult Swim, SpongeBob SquarePants, Inside Out, Ubisoft, Sony, Thunderbeam Animation, EuropaCorp, FremantleMedia, EuropaCorp, Mondo Media, Nelvana, Ubisoft Entertainment SA, Bungie, 343 Industries, New World Pictures, American International Pictures, Lorimar, Klasky Csupo, Big Idea Productions, Hanna-Barbera and Jetsons Technology Limited, as well as the newly combined massive animation work duo of DreamWorks Animation SKG and Blue Sky Studios. The Onward Company is preparing to purchase the entertainment varieties of DC Comics. 
Construction of The Onward Company and The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company in Redmond, Washington, began in September 2020 and was completed in late 2020, giving entertainment testing, as well as mergering most to lot of the Viacom, Sony, WarnerMedia and Activision Blizzard assets as well as Ubisoft Entertainment SA, Bungie, Mojang and 343 Industries (from Microsoft's Xbox Games Studios), Big Idea Productions (dissociated from the subsidiary of DreamWorks Classics into becoming a separate public company). On January 1, 2021, everyone from The Humanoid Universe celebrated the founding of The Onward Company and The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company, now operated as subsidiaries of Hearst Communications, which became a new wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company with its 100% stake being bought. On January 9, 2021, Nintendo, with a budget of $ 617,000, announced that it would bring new entertainment value through initial agreements with Jakks Pacific, England Technologies, Mattel and Restaurant Brands International to help promote all products. 
==History==
On February 20, 2021, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that it acquired French film company Pathé for $156 million, which would expand DK Films into a European film market. The acquisition was completed on March 8, 2021. Its early units included Donkey Kong Television, DK Films, Donkey Kong Banks, Donkey Kong Animation Services and Donkey Kong Marketing Group, while its early sister unit is Sonic Films and Sonic Television, which had done production support for the Sonic the Hedgehog films from Paramount Pictures, before both were folded into the newly-created Sonic Media in 2023.
On March 15, 2021, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company bought The Backyardigans brand and acquired the rights to the titular franchise (except for The Backyardigans 2.0, which was acquired by The Onward Company in May 2021) and expanded it to create new rebooted book-like properties. On February 20, 2021, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that she was starting work on several adaptations based on Super Smash Bros., which is called "best entertainment value". 
On April 1, 2021, Nintendo officially launched Nintendo MovieToons, its new feature film animation unit, which announces a five-year cinema contract with Universal Pictures, via developments of films to come based on Pokémon, Metroid and Super Mario Sunshine, plus a film adaptation of the Backyardigans' Mud Monster. 
The Pokémon-based movie is slated for summer 2022, while the Metroid-based movie is slated for summer 2023, and the Super Mario Sunshine-based movie is slated for release in fall 2024. On May 1, 2021, Sega opened its new animation studio Sega Sammy Animation which began developing and production of film adaptations based on the Puyo Puyo and Persona franchises, as well as the video games Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg and Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm (with Mondo Media and Stainless Games) and a original film titled Tama.
On May 8, 2021, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced an agreement with the workers, writers and producers of Disney Channel/Disney XD animated series Star vs. the Forces of Evil, including Dominic Bisgano and Aaron Hammerslay, to begin supplying television collaborations for children's television programming. As such, Nintendo officially began development of its newly-formed television division to produce several new television programming content based on its franchises, as Nintendo hired Disney Television Studios staff to work on Nintendo Television. On June 2, 2021, Jim Johnson was appointed Executive Vice President of The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company. On June 5, 2021, Sega Sammy Holdings announced that the beginning of the production of Puyo Puyo: The Movie, at the newly-formed Sega Sammy Animation, set for its release on November 4, 2022, giving recover of over $6 million production budget. Bisgano and Hammerslay would later go on to create a new animated series, which would later what become The High School Kids Gang, which debuted in early 2023. 
On June 10, 2021, Sega Sammy Holdings and Wildbrain Studios announced a agreement to provide 100 hours of programming, in which it would migrate a variety of Sega Sammy television varieties into animated content as well as live-action content, with the effort to the development of their television units to produce programming and even launching newly-formed cable television channel, as well as a variety of channels, in conjunction with NBCUniversal (which The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company would later acquire in late 2022), which ultimately launched on September 23, 2022 as the re-launching of the existing Universal Kids. 
On June 15, 2021, David Bowers, director of Puyo Puyo: The Movie, announced a recovered cost of $15 million for each Sega Sammy Holdings budget from Sonic Media. On August 1, 2021, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company reported revenue of $6.7 million. On June 27, 2021, Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios was established. On August 22, 2021, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced plans to acquire The Jim Henson Company for $67.7 million, thus expanding and entering into its children's entertainment industry. On August 24, 2021, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company acquired and merged Toei Animation from Toei Company for $67.7 million, thus expanding to oversee ownership of all Toei Animation operations.
On August 17, 2021, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced its entrance into the theme park industry to acquire Golfland Entertainment Centers for $6.67 million and announced a agreement for buying the Tijuanan theme park Mundo Divertido for $78.3 million. 
On August 20, 2021, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced a bidding war with Netflix, Sony and The Onward Company to acquire both media conglomerate Comcast and its NBCUniversal subsidiary, although it was lost his bid to The Onward Company, which Sony and Netflix drop the bids altogether. Meanwhile, Sega Sammy Group formed a joint venture with Nexstar Media Group to create the commercial television station/network brand, known as simply TMS, which would devoted to the programming efforts, including programming content aimed at 
On November 30, 2021, the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice announced the acquisition of NBCUniversal by The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company, in which fans of Disney and ESPN see the proposed merger that was established in the city of Calexico. where the announcement was made to executives of The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company, in an effort to buy the various units of NBCUniversal for $15.4 billion.
Jeff Shell, President of NBCUniversal, has approved the merger of the two companies to consolidate NBCUniversal's Universal brand assets under the forthcoming operating units of The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company, while spinning off the NBCUniversal's NBC and Telemundo brand assets into a new company, which began trading on New Year's Eve 2023 (January 1). 
In January 2022, The Walt Disney Company agreed with The Onward Company and The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company to a merger proposal that is scheduled for late 2022. Three companies have approved their New Year's Eve 2023 merger. Disney is set to approve the $2 billion merger of the three companies (resulting in The Onward Company relocating to Chicago, Illnois and The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company relocating to Winter Haven, Florida).
On March 7, 2022, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that it is commissioning a deal with Emilio Azcárraga Jean to acquire the Mexican multimedia conglomerate Grupo Televisa (including TelevisaUnivision) for $17.7 billion. This sends The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company to expand into a Latin American fare including "Mexican entertainment products" and "Spanish-language productions". Shigeru Miyamoto announced that it would become CEO of The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company. However, the acquisition was never materialized. 
On March 26, 2022, Six Flags announced that it would ceased all operations due to the economic hit, selling plans and the comprorating risings of the COVID-19 pandemic. SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment was coming off a good 2021 season investing $65 million into their parks. Cedar Fair signed off a deal to take acquisition of Six Flags parks. Meanwhile, Palace Entertainment acquire the ownership rights to the Great Escape and La Ronde amusement parks. 
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment was set out to acquire Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags Fiesta Texas, Six Flags Great Adventure and Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment announced that Six Flags Magic Mountain would be renamed as SeaWorld Los Angeles, Six Flags Fiesta Texas will be mergering with SeaWorld San Antonio to form SeaWorld San Antonio Resort, Six Flags Great Adventure would be renamed as Busch Gardens Jackson and Six Flags Discovery Kingdom would be renamed as SeaWorld San Francisco.
Cedar Fair also announced that they were going to add new attractions to take out on the best for the same remainings. It is also announced that Six Flags New England would be renamed as Riverside Park.
Also on March 27, 2022, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that it would acquire SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment's parent company, SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc., for $16.7 million, to expand its operations into theme park businesses, which would resulting in a partnership with Cedar Fair to acquire five parks (California's Great America, Canada Wonderland, Carowinds, Kings Island and Kings Dominion) and premaritally shut down all of five Intamin-designed drop tower rides at Cedar Fair parks, which are Drop Tower, resulting in the 2022-set revival of the Splashinis brand, which was originally phased out in 2016 after the cancellation of The Amazing Splashinis television series. 
As for California's Great America, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company will be building a actual Nintendo-branded amusement park named Donkey Kong Universe (which would later be marked as Donkey Kong Universe California), headquartered in Santa Clara, California, that would feature 20 rides and attractions including eight-to-eleven roller coasters. Also, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company would also acquire Six Flags Great America and would rename it as Donkey Kong Universe Illnois, headquartered in Gurnee, Illnois, which would also feature 22 rides and attractions including nine-to-ten roller coasters as well. 
The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company would be renaming both California's Great America and Six Flags Great America as Donkey Kong Universe-branded amusement parks, and the roller coaster Demon will be reposed to have a Mario theme. The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company would also use licenses to its Nintendo, PBS, Square Enix and Universal brands within the both Donkey Kong Universe-branded upcoming theme parks. 
Sega Sammy Holdings announced on the same day that it would construct four Sega Sammy-branded amusement parks in Orlando, Florida, in Kochi, Japan, in Weimar, Germany, and in Pasadena, California. Sega Sammy Holdings also announces that it would also construct another Sega Sammy-branded amusement park in Santa Clara, California, which will be located right next to the Donkey Kong Universe-branded Santa Clara amusement park, in which both parks would be combined up as Donkey Kong Universe Resort, which will be 70% owned by The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company.
Soon, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced the purchase of DreamWorks Animation, splitting it into two companies: the main titular division and DreamWorks Worldwide (part of The Onward Company). DreamWorks Classics, DreamWorks Press, DreamWorks New Media and DreamWorks Live Theatrical Productions will all be dispersed under DreamWorks Worldwide, while both the main company and its DreamWorks Animation Television unit will be operated as subsidiaries of The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company.
In mid-September 2022, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced the hiring of Shigeru Miyamoto as the company's Senior President, with Miyamoto overseeing the development of film, television, video game, and production business content events. Miyamoto would also lead the call for Evan Wilson, the co-founder of Donkey Kong Enterprises and Sonic Media, to develop a "new strategic order" with mixed results. The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company will develop, produce and realize between 10 and 100 new projects based on the Super Smash Bros. franchise, to match the slate of 175 projects. 
Sega Channel launched on September 23 as the replacement to the existing Universal Kids channel. which debuted on September 23, 2022 at 08:00 LDT Pacific Time. Sega Channel's programming are adapted from Sega properties, including launch programs such as original shows like Puyo Puyo: Magic of Adventures, The Amazing Harvey, Green Hills Pals, Polly Pocket: Poppy-Poppy Adventures, Space Channel 5: The Series, and Puyo Puyo Champions. The TMS brand previewed as the commercial television network on that same year at midnight, before also debuting at 03:00 LDT Pacific Time. The TMS brand was set to expand around 6–25 affiliated television stations across nationally the United States, with the inspecting of creating successful programming beyond television, as Nexstar Media Group already operated its stations under the Fox, MyNetworkTV and The CW affiliated brands.
The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced its upcoming statement to generate new properties, including alternate variant merchandising rights for Esme & Roy, plus Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Wildbrain and among others. The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company was established to initiate, develop, and create new content aimed at audiences of all ages, with the intent to soon acquire Donkey Kong Enterprises and Sonic Media and consolidate them as its "major core business segments," while all the units will be scattered under Donkey Kong Enterprises and Sonic Media together. New acquisitions of STX Entertainment were also announced for the merger.
In October 2022, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that it have planning to acquire American video game company Electronic Arts (EA) for $14.3 million, thus considering it the "secondary video game development arm" to produce and develop independent titles, while having the licensing of Star Wars video games still being set by The Onward Company and The Walt Disney Company, which would acquire the rights to the video game catalog from EA, though the rest would be fully owned by The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company. However, The Onward Company sold Ubisoft to The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company, while EA was entirely acquired by the former, alongside various franchises EA had.
Prior to The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company, EA previously worked on Backyardigans video games with the defunct company Splashinis Worldwide Studios (which was acquired by and folded into The Sam Loyd Company in May 2009), as well as the Ryan & Isabella series, which is once considered as a separate entity from the Puyo Puyo multimedia franchise, before mergering back under the Puyo Puyo video game series/media franchise. 
The $2,266,179,836 budgeted merger was completed on New Year's Eve 2023 (January 1). The Walt Disney Company, The Onward Company, and The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company eventually became part of the trio of three major Disneyverse media conglomerates, where their parent company is Disney, Inc. 
The Pikmin Network launched at 12:00AM Pacific Time, 1:00AM Mountain Time, 2:00AM Central Time and 3:00AM Eastern Time, and the network broadcast programming from Donkey Kong Enterprises, plus Delta Holdings, Backyardigans Agencies (including Splashinis Worldwide Studios, Cartoonverse Worldwide and Stupidyardigans Entertainment), Rockville Worldwide Studios, Puyo Puyo Enterprises and DreamWorks Pictures library, as well as acquired programs including Doctor Who, Ninjago, Thundercats, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, The Walking Dead, Family Guy, American Dad, The Simpsons, Futurama, Beavis and Butthead, and Rayman: The Animated Series, as well as reruns of original shows from defunct American cable television network Penguin Network, which debuted in 1991, but shut down in 2013, and internationally in 2022. 
The Pikmin Network's acquired Nintendo-branded programs included Captain N: The Game Master, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, King Koopa's Kool Kartoons, Donkey Kong Country, and various Nintendo Animation Studio shows, including reruns of Team Urusei and other of NAS's Penguin Network originals. The Pikmin Network's first original series is Crisis, which is co-produced by Wolf Entertainment and Donkey Kong Television Production, focusing on the group of investers who faced an crisis threat, depicting global warning. The Pikmin Network's launch programs and first original animated series included Xenoblade Chronicles, an animated adaptation to the video game series with six characters (Pyra, Mythra, Nia, Poppi, Rex and Tora) as the main characters, which is the midquel to Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and is co-produced with Titmouse, Inc. for its 12-episode first season, and then Virtual Studios for its 14-episode second season onward; Nintendogs, a 21-episode live-action adaptation to the video game series, which stars Amy Poehler, and is co-produced with Poehler's Paper Kite Productions; Penny & Mona, an animated comedy series which focused on the two main characters as they go on a misadventures while dealing with these medical obstacles, and is co-produced with Frederator Studios; The High School Kids Gang, an animated series, co-produced with Titmouse, Inc. for its 21-episode first season and Frederator Studios for its 17-episode second season onward, which featured a specificied organization of 20 kids together attending the Middleton Primary High School and focused on them and the MPHS staff doing excited daily situations; and Pokémon Adventures, an new animated series centered on eight Pokémon trainers battling against rivals with the effort to become the Pokémon masters.
In addition to its launch programming, The Pikmin Network also produced its preschool-oriented morning programming block, under the name "Pikmin Underfives", with launch preschool programs including Pretty Cure Splash Star: Babysitting Heroes, an animated series featuring Cure Bloom and Cure Egret as well as new characters, as these characters teached children to take out the resources by solving problems and also taking care of the children; Super Mario 3D World, an animated series which chronicled the adventures of the main Mario characters as they come over challenges in the Mushroom Kingdom to solve the problems; Grease Heroes, an animated adaptation to Grease franchise, which follows the characters to achieve their challenges and having some new friends while recruiting other characters to join forces on many adventures; Basil Adventures, an animated series which focused on the anthropomorphic titular mouse who joins forces with her friends to fight against several villains and travel around Europe to discover secrets; and The Backyardigans: Space-Working Adventures, an new television entry in The Backyardigans franchise, featuring the characters solving problems in the outer space-themed genre, in which David Gurney, creator of Hoota & Snoz and Buzz Bumble, is the show's developer, and was co-produced with 9 Story Media Group's Brown Bag Films.
To coincide with its merger, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company also completes its acquisition of NBCUniversal, and the NBC and Telemundo brand assets are spun off into NBC Corporation, which went public in New York and consolidated each unit under his Donkey Assets from Kong Enterprises and Sonic Media. The Nintendo, PBS, Square Enix, MGM, Ubisoft, and Universal Pictures brand assets were consolidated under Donkey Kong Enterprises, while the Sega Sammy Group, Pathé, The Jim Henson Company, and Bandai Namco brand assets were consolidated under Sonic Media. All of NBCUniversal assets were merged with Donkey Kong Enterprises assets, e.g. NBCUniversal Media Group merged with Donkey Kong Television to form Donkey Kong Television Networks, which included The Pikmin Network; NBCUniversal International Networks merged with Donkey Kong Television Networks to form Donkey Kong Worldwide Networks; NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations were merged into NBC Entertainment, which was spun off as a division of the newly-established NBC Corporation; and NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group merged into Donkey Kong Television Networks. Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, Universal Parks & Resorts and Universal Studio Group were consolidated under Donkey Kong Enterprises, with Universal Parks & Resorts and Universal Creative themselves being merged into the Donkey Kong Destinations unit.
Following the merger, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced plans to produce film, television, commercial and new media adaptations to Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Nier, Million Arthur and The World Ends with You. The slate of the films is set to be produced starting in mid-2023, literally starting with Final Fantasy, whose live-action/animated CGI film is set for its June 13, 2025 release, ahead of the release of Disney/Pixar's upcoming tentpole Elio. 
On February 1, 2023, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that it would began producing upcoming productions based on Nintendo, Square Enix, MGM, Sega Sammy, The Jim Henson Company and Bandai Namco properties, with the upcoming film and television catalog set to be debuting starting in 2023, and ending in 2028, featuring over 175 intended projects. The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company also announced plans for a "new rematch" to the video game content, which would feature new video games, including life simulation ones, released not only for the Nintendo Switch, but also for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, while some Backyardigans-branded video games would be developed and published by Ubisoft for all said platforms, including Nintendo Switch. Sega will continue develop and publish Puyo Puyo video games, while The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company, under its video game and consumer products development and publishing arms, will release new video game content and merchandising efforts based on several properties, featuring the Puyo Puyo Unoriginals, which was released on July 26, 2023 on Nintendo Switch, featuring nearly all of the previous video game installments in the Puyo Puyo multimedia franchise apart from the titular video game series developed and published by both Compile and Sega.
On March 1, 2023, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company ultimately relaunched the concurrent Universal Kids, after which the existing channel was replaced with Sega Channel a year earlier. In addition to this, Sega Laughs launched as the daily morning preschool-oriented block on Sega Channel, featuring Sega Sammy-branded preschool-oriented programming, with original/launched programs including the CGI-animated Smurfytown (from IMPS/Peyo Productions and Onward Animation), the action-adventure series Rolling with the Punks!, the animated musical series Zack & Jane (co-produced with Titmouse, Inc.), and the live-action preschool series Little Sports (co-produced with Anthology Productions). The block's acquired programs included the Puyo Puyo-branded preschool-oriented shows, including Ringo & Tee: Heroes United and Irene & Nasos: Mages United!, plus Wildbrain's The Save-Ums!, The Big Comfy Couch, Curious George, Rainbow Ruby, Caillou, Little Charmers, and Builder Brothers' Dream Factory. Sega Laughs would later gain its own television channel in Europe, Latin America, and Australia, and later in Asia.
On April 1, 2023, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced plans to produce more Bandai Namco films and television shows as well, which included adaptations to Natsuiro Kiseki, Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, Pac-Man, Tekken, Soulcalibur, Splatterhouse, Klonoa, The Idolmaster, Dark Souls and Galaxian, under Bandai Namco's divisions (already placed within the Sonic Media banner), in which production would be handled nationwide in Japan and co-production would be handled simultaneously in the United States and Canada. 
On May 1, 2023, Chris Meledandri, the co-producer of the conglomerate's flagship property The Super Mario Bros. Movie, claimed that there are about to be "around 10–30 animated television projects" to be made, meaning that the Donkey Kong Television Production animated series needed to be produced in-house. Miyamoto committed Meledandri if they can set up the new animation division that would spawned the variety of the production of the animated television series, which is set to produce at least 10–30 animated television programs. Donkey Kong Television produced a couple of its animation departments to handle production of several Super Smash Bros. animated productions, including the animated television adaptation.
On June 1, 2023, Donkey Kong Enterprises launched the new 24-hour Nintendo educational television network, Nintendo Baby, which would showcase baby-themed programming from Nintendo, targeted at babies and toddlers ages 0−3. It takes inspiration from The Puyo Puyo Tetris Company's BabyFirst and The Walt Disney Company's BabyTV. Donkey Kong Television Production produced the whole Nintendo Baby content, which featured baby-themed programming from the Super Smash Bros. franchise, including the Mario franchise. Characters from My Universe - My Baby appeared in various Nintendo Baby bumpers.
On August 10, 2023, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that it would acquire STX Entertainment (most notably its library, operations, and merchandising sales) for $12.5 million from Jahm Najafi, indicating that it would plan to release several films under its Donkey Kong Enterprises banner, and distributed them worldwide under its Donkey Kong Filmed Entertainment Group banner. The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company would maintain ownership to the STX Entertainment catalog, in which it would plan to semi-distribute titles under its STX banner. 
On September 22, 2023, Darren Brereton confirmed that The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced plans to produce future projects based on the once-popular Flowgo Babies franchise. He was set to oversee the production of several future projects, including the series of shorts, which he served as the showrunner. The series of shorts, Flowgo Babies Presents, produced by DreamWorks Animation Television, is set to be released on March 21, 2025 on Sega+, and will feature ten episodes featuring the favorite characters from this franchise.
On October 1, 2023, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that it would acquire the company Netflix, Inc. for $69.63 million, with the intentions to create a "new look" of streaming efforts. Their intentions was to merge the Netflix IPs with Donkey Kong Enterprises segment, which included the properties of Mario, Fast & Furious, and The Backyardigans. Reed Hastings announced a agreement with The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company president Shigeru Miyamoto to consolidate Netflix under the Donkey Kong Enterprises banner, with intentions to assume a marketing experience, which "comes from the streaming media that advances more with Donkey Kong Enterprises properties, including Netflix." 
Notable assets to be acquired include the Netflix Pictures and Netflix Music subsidiaries, including Netflix Animation Studios (which produced films since 2020 such as The Willoughbys, Over the Moon, Back to the Outback, The Sea Beast, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, The Magician's Elephant, The Monkey King, and Leo; though most of them are based on the books under the same name), with the acquisition included the films that are released in theatres and streamed on Netflix, with notable ones including The Christmas Chronicles, 6 Underground, The Gray Man and Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey.
The new streaming service, Sega+, featuring the Sonic Media library, launched on November 22, 2023. It was originally scheduled to launch on December 15, 2023, but was moved up starting in late October 2023, which comes from the graduation of the success of The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company's 2023 success. Donkey Kong Enterprises will relaunch Donkey Kong on Demand as Nintendoverse on March 5, 2024, akin to the way CBS All-Access relaunched as Paramount+ two years earlier in March 2021. Several of the Sega+ launched titles included the fantasy film Aurora, the comedy "Derek, two animated series such as Punchline: The Series and Sonic Legends, the spy comedy Free Agent, and the action-packed Megadrive 32X, among others.
On November 10, 2023, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced its own Donkey Kong Investor Day and Sonic Media Post to reflect the changes of the series, with the announcement of the upcoming projects such as the new proposed Ryan & Isabella reboot series. Also, 45 more projects were announced in development, apart from the 175 already-developed/already-intended projects that have been in development starting in 2021, then already being produced, earily starting with the main 10-minute launch video, which is akin to the Disney Infinity introduction featuring both the Disney and Pixar characters. 
Among projects are the adult animated shows produced by Atlus such as Persona Q: Shadows of the Labyrinth; the streaming-only The New Demon Island, Steel Diver and Brain Age television serial productions; some Peacock originals including Dr. Death; and the upcoming 2024 animated slate consisting of King of the Penguins, Despicable Me 4, Kung Fu Panda 4, Orion and the Dark, Puyo Puyo Tetris, Robodog and Puyo Puyo Champions. This also announced the discontinuation of the ongoing adult animated series Business Tales (including the whole titular franchise), for the eighth and final season, consisting of 20 episodes. That season will premiere in March, and then conclude in June, eventually concluding the whole titular franchise.
On December 5, 2023, with the popularity of The Puyo Puyo Tetris Company's internal original projects, Sonic Media announced that the Puyo Puyo Outside series will be ending in summer 2024, in favor of the new internal spin-offs from the Puyo Puyo franchise, including the newly-launched Puyo Puyo Kidzone series, which debuted in June of that same year. The series' library is now distributed by The Puyo Puyo Tetris Company. The Adventures of Lipsy & Victoria (in its original incarnation) and Business Tales served as the final Puyo Puyo external spin-offs ever being produced, as well as the final remaining installments in the Puyo Puyo Outside series. The original incarnation's reboot, featuring three new characters and a different continuity, would be launched with the film, set for its November 2025 release, taken from the upcoming Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 film, which moved up to its new March 2026 release. The Puyo Puyo Tetris Company had served the Puyo Puyo Tetris as its new original franchise, with the Puyo Puyo franchise being remained under The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company's ownership.
On December 15, 2023, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that the Puyo Puyo franchise will see new external following projects set for their 2024 and 2025 releases, featuring only over 134 characters, who are all grouped up to form the 134-member main cast, which would star in the new upcoming projects, starting with the streaming-only Factory of the Death apart from internal spin-offs, whom included the upcoming Aaron and the Rusticles and Janet & Mandy franchises, set for their launch in 2024. Factory of the Death will be released on Sega+ in 2024. Planned but cancelled projects included its new crossover film named The Rise of the Mutilation with the Goosebumps book series and the Puyo Puyo University focusing on the characters attending the university, both set for their releases in 2025. In addition to these projects, three more projects would be announced, including the proposed revival to the original Feli & Raffina film from 2006, and two untitled films, whom included the proposed sequel to Puyo Puyo: The Movie which was announced to be in development. Also, a newly-revealed reboot to the original series, featuring solely the 134-member main cast and revolving around "many adventures to fight back in addition to those Puyo battles", was announced to debut in 2025 as the predecessor to Puyo Puyo: Magic of Adventures, which was cancelled as of December 16, 2023, after two seasons and 52 episodes. Factory of the Death will also be considered to be the prequel to the newly-announced upcoming 2025 reboot series itself. 2025 will coincide the 30th anniversary of the titular franchise that has been evolved starting with Amitie's Legend in 1995. 
This marks Puyo Puyo the second franchise to be sided multi-project experience behind The Backyardigans franchise, as The Backyardigans: Conspiracy of Heaven has already been released on Netflix, and the franchise had two more projects to be released: the streaming-only Road to Tokyo movie in 2024 and the theatrical International Super Spy: Welcome to Terraland in 2025. In addition to these two projects, three more Backyardigans films were announced in development.
On December 24, 2023, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company and The Puyo Puyo Tetris Company mutually announced that it would do changes to the series, attending a large mistake for the Puyo Puyo Outside franchise to end. The former will retain the Puyo Puyo Outside series and library, although the former's Sonic Media segment marched out to sell the whole Puyo Puyo franchise to Sega Kids & Adults Productions, with the exception of the Puyo Puyo Outside series, which was sold to Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios, whose subfranchise would be Puyo Puyo!! Quest, while The Puyo Puyo Tetris Company would rather been focusing on original projects, in addition to producing adaptations, with upcoming installments including Super Duper Children Resistance and Perra: A Puyo Puyo Adventure (a co-production between TSDKC's Sega Sammy Group and The Onward Company's Sony Pictures Entertainment; focusing on the conjunction of both the characters and Sony-branded resources and the main setting is in the Sonyville). Also, actress Sarah Jessica Parker committed that there have been potential ideas to reboot Business Tales itself. As Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios would later be focusing on developing and producing several Puyo Puyo!! Quest projects regarding the subfranchise, Sega Kids & Adults Productions (the parent company of Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios) would manage the whole Puyo Puyo franchise itself (which is the subfranchise's parent franchise). New Puyo Puyo Outside installments will be produced by Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios, continuing the series. On December 29, 2023, the now-cancelled Perra: A Puyo Puyo Adventure was transferred to The Puyo Puyo Tetris Company, due to the success of TPPTC's collaborations with The Onward Company.
On January 1, 2024, The Walt Disney Company and The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company launched a agreement with Dish Network and DirecTV to mutually reestructure their efforts and expand the variety of the television availabity between all of the Disney/ABC/ESPN/FX Networks/XYZNetworks/Teleplex/National Geographic-branded television channels and even the Donkey Kong Television Networks for both Disney General Entertainment Content and Donkey Kong Enterprises, in which the latter would expand the television qualities in addition to the newer television exports of the latter conglomerate. The effect will take place effectively January 1, 2025. The Donkey Kong Television Networks family of channels, including The Pikmin Network, Syfy, E!, Universal Kids and NBC, would be added to Dish Network and Sling TV services, in which Donkey Kong Enterprises will launch three new Donkey Kong-branded television channels: Action, Drama and Suspense, each consisting of movies and programming from three genres. Also, in addition to availability of the channels and the launch of the three DK channels, Nintendo Television would launch its five new U.S. television brands (Toons, Play (airing from 9:00am to 11:00pm), Dark (airing from 11:00pm to 9:00am), Light, and Sole), each featuring programming from Donkey Kong Enterprises via its Nintendo Television banner. Nintendo Toons would been focused on animated programming from The Pikmin Network and other Donkey Kong Television-related properties, Nintendo Play specialized in preschool-oriented programming, Nintendo Dark focused on the nighttime programming plus featuring Universal Television shows, Nintendo Light focused on girl-themed programming including new girl-aimed Donkey Kong shows and reruns of The Saddle Club, Strawberry Shortcake, My Little Pony: Pony Life, The Babysitters Club and Totally Spies!, and Nintendo Sole showcased classic Nintendo-branded programming and reruns of several Penguin Network and Nintendo Animation Studio shows. Nintendo Play and Nintendo Dark would share the same channel space, with Play running from 9:00am to 11:00pm and Dark running from 11:00pm to 9:00am. Meanwhile, Sega Television and Sammy Television would make its main programming from channels majoritly moving to DirecTV customers, with DirecTV selected as Sega Sammy Group's collaborator. When this effect occur on January 1, 2025, Dish and Sling TV will permanently phase out every single Disney, ABC, ABC Family Worldwide, ESPN, XYZNetworks, Teleplex, FX Networks and BabyTV channel from both services, and added the whole Donkey Kong Television Networks family of channels into the services, including all five newly-launched Nintendo Television channels. Meanwhile, the Sega Sammy-branded television networks would became available on DirecTV, in which every single Disney, ABC, ABC Family Worldwide, ESPN, FX Networks, National Geographic and BabyTV channel would remained available on DirecTV.
On January 3, 2024, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced a $15 billion investment to foraying into its own new media production, entertainment and distribution industry in Canada, under the newly-formed Delfino brand, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which would produce Canadian animated television, production and marketing efforts for The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company including Donkey Kong Enterprises and Sonic Media. Meanwhile, the company would also launch the Canadian versions of numerous Donkey Kong Television Networks and Sega Sammy Television Group properties, including the new English-language versions of both Nintendo Channel and Sega Channel, as well as Sega ZOOM, Sega Laughs and Sega Moviemagic. Other English-language channels included Donkey Kong Comedy and the new Canadian 24-hour Square Enix channel known as Square Enix Channel. French-language Sega Sammy channels included Sammy Familie and Sammy Sport. A Canadian Sega Laughs programming block was also announced for Sega Channel, identical to the original US titular programming block airing on Sega Channel. This also includes the Sonic Media's acquisition of Canadian media entertainment company Wildbrain, even the merger between the former and Sega Sammy Group, consolidating under the Casinopolis, Inc., an new Canadian media entertainment conglomerating segment of The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, which would produce Sega Sammy and other Sonic Media-branded productions, contents and marketing across Canada. Also, The Onward Company would acquire a 52.4% interesting stake in 9 Story Media Group, while Donkey Kong Enterprises under its Delfino banner would acquire a 20.5% minority stake in the company. 9 Story would continue to produce content beyond The Onward Company and The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company under both of its Donkey Kong Enterprises banner and its new Delfino division. Additionally, the company announced a new Super Duper Children Resistance franchise, which would debut with the film set for its release on April 10, 2026, followed by a animated series debuting sometime in the mid-2026. 
However, on January 14, 2024, the company's president Shigeru Miyamoto announced The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company had made changes to the Puyo Puyo franchise in order to focus on the newer projects featuring the whole main cast, after 22 years of these successful usage, starting with the Puyo Puyo television series, the mainline Puyo Puyo franchise would no longer be using the heavy sets of backs-to-backs, which had the characters pasting back to back constantly throughout most entries, as he defined that "it was so much long, long enough to use the heavy back to back moments throughout the years." The heavy set would solely be used for the 2022 revival of The Adventures of Lipsy & Victoria, which would receive a new set for which a pair of each of the characters (Lipsy and Victoria, Victoria and Leo, Leo and Andie, Leo and Julie, Lipsy and Julie, or Victoria and Andie) would receive their backs-to-backs the way they wanted mainly. This was also the reason due to the success of the newly-launched Sega+ streaming service, which had over 10 billion users subscribed throughout the launch.
In addition to this, the Puyo Puyo franchise will rather be focused on the light sets of backs-to-backs, which had the characters who only pasted together back to back just once, while The Console Crew had Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios being dropped out from co-producing the series, leaving Atlus Film Financing Productions and Sammy Television as sole co-production companies. 
As a result of the heavy set's retirement of the mainline usage, all of the new planned Puyo Puyo Outside installments were also cancelled, and Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios will keep producing solely the eighth and final season of Business Tales, as Sega Kids & Adults Productions announced the eventual "conclusion" of the whole series, ultimately ending with the eighth and final season of Business Tales, although The Adventures of Lipsy & Victoria continued until its final 100th episode release in March 2024. The Puyo Puyo Outside franchise will be discontinued in June 2024, after the eighth and final season of Business Tales, and that the Puyo Puyo franchise will no longer be centered on external spin-offs as well, as Rudish defined that "it was impossible to help out with the franchise." Also, Aaron and the Rusticles, a newly-launched franchise from Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios, was reworked into a animated feature film, and would now be rather released on June 26, 2026 as the new internal spin-off to Puyo Puyo!! Quest franchise.
Due to the series' discontinuation, the separate Puyo Puyo!! Quest franchise, produced by Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios, was not affected by the changes. Also the animation studio announced The Cuddly Coopy House, its first original project, debuting with a film scheduled for April 10, 2026 (taking over the planned release date of the now-cancelled Super Duper Children Resistance film) and its TV series scheduled in fall 2026. The Puyo Puyo franchise will still be produced, but fully in-house under Sega Kids & Adults Productions itself, while a couple of films would still be produced by Sega Animation Studios. The franchise's new productions will either be theatrically released, televised, released digitally only, or streamed exclusively on Sega+, depending on the upcoming release. Sony Pictures Animation and Sega Animation Studios story artist and Sword Art Online: The Movie head of story Denise Nagisa Koyama was attached as the director, and Venom screenwriter Kelly Marcel was signed to write the script for the film. The Croods: A New Age and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish story artist David Wolter served as the film's story consultant, while Sonic the Hedgehog 2 storyboard artists Martin Madsen and Ahmed Nasri served as film's heads of story. Takeshi Ito, Toru Nakahara and Toby Ascher would return as producers alongside Mie Onishi and Morgana Duque, with Melissa Beery, Yukio Sugino, Hajime Satomi, Haruki Satomi and Denise Tanchanco serving as executive producers. Hitoshi Okuno served as the film's co-producer. Theodore Shapiro will compose the film's score, marking it Shapiro's third main animated work apart from DreamWorks Animation films, after Spies in Disguise (2019) and Migration (2023).
On January 17, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that Nintendo MovieToons, Sega Animation Studios and Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios would be relocated from Japan to the United States, to relying more largely to these successful animated feature films, marking its foray to a variety of the #1 coolest animated films throughout the America. Nintendo MovieToons is relocated to Winter Haven, Florida, while Sega Animation Studios and Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios would be relocating its operations to the United States, where they would both be based in San Francisco. As for The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company, it later converted its animation catalogue asset into its new production unit, known as Donkey Kong Animation Enterprises (DKAS), as a joint venture between Donkey Kong Filmed Entertainment Group and Sega Sammy Filmed Entertainment Group, to produce a variety of outsmarting and cool animated feature films wholly based on the Super Smash Bros. franchise. Universal Animation Studios, DreamWorks Animation and Illumination would be consolidated under DKAS, with DreamWorks being transferred under Sonic Media. However, the company later announced on January 25 that Donkey Kong Enterprises would be relocated to El Centro, California, while Sonic Media would be relocated to Phoenix, Arizona. However, the animation studios would still be relocated to the United States no matter what. 
In addition to the six animation studios (fully based in the USA), Ubisoft would form a animation studio apart from its film and television unit, known as Ubisoft Animation Productions, DKAS's seventh animation member, which featured five animated projects in development, with one being in production, as Rayman Raving Rabbids, the 2025 revival of 2006 movie tie-in to the eponymous video game, as the film itself is scheduled for its release on March 21, 2025, with Migration story artist Sarah Guiderdoni as director and Antoine Ettori as co-director. 
Additionally, an potential sequel to Puyo Puyo: The Movie was finally announced, with its release date being scheduled sometime in late 2026. The original film's director David Bowers would not helmed the sequel, as he would have no involvement in the sequel, although he is often working with the Netflix animated film The Amazing Dinosaur Adventure, scheduled for its release on March 22, 2024. Toru Nakahara and Toby Ascher would return as producers alongside Sonic the Hedgehog 2 producer Hitoshi Okuno and Sonic Prime producer Denise Tanchanco. Gina Shay, president of Sega Animation Studios, would also be added as the producer. Amphibia creator Matt Braly was signed on to helm the sequel, replacing Bowers. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse writer David Callaham was signed on to write the screenplay for the sequel, alongside The Croods: A New Age and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish screenwriter Paul Fisher.
On January 26, 2024, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that the medium sets of backs-to-backs would continued to be used in the mainline Puyo Puyo productions until the debut of the new Disney's Rock Gang series on June 1, 2024, in which the medium sets would still continue to be used for The Console Crew. Starting with the now-cancelled Puyo Puyo: Factory of the Death, several Puyo Puyo entries and productions will only use the light sets of backs-to-backs, depending on the moment. DreamWorks Animation was transferred under Sonic Media as the seventh brand, after Sega Sammy, Pathé, Bandai Namco, The Jim Henson Company, Naughty Dog, and Viz Media.
On January 28, 2024, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced a new slate of 7 projects in the works, with upcoming feature films including several new Super Smash Bros. streaming television films. A FGTeev-based animated film (under the working title "FGTeev Saves the Day") was in production at Sega Animation Studios as the studio's fifth film, for its release on March 21, 2025, taking over the potential release date of Rayman Raving Rabbids, which was now pushed back a week earlier to March 14, 2025.
On February 1, 2024, the company and The Onward Company announced that they have shut down United International Pictures (a 50%-co-owned joint venture between its Universal Pictures division and the latter's Paramount Pictures unit), due to their financial results, in favor of their joint venture Studio Distribution Services for its Universal Pictures division and TOC's Warner Bros. division, marking the death of UIP after 43 years. 
On February 10, 2024, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that the third Baby Kong film is in development for Netflix, with Brad Bird set to direct the film from a screenplay by Dan Fogelman, who previously worked with DreamWorks Animation and Flowgo Corporation for Babies of the Caribbean (2008), with Brereton, Gina Shay and Parent set to produce. The film will be co-produced by DreamWorks Animation and Netflix Animation Studios, where it is set to be DreamWorks Animation' third streaming film, after both Trollhunters: Rise of the Beasts (2021), Orion and the Dark (2024), and Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate (2024). 
On February 27, 2024, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced plans to acquire the multinational toy company Mattel, who is responsible for the toy sets, such as the Hot Wheels, Monster High, Max Steel, American Girl and Barbie franchises, for $95.5 million. This also included the rights to the main Hot Wheels marketing property. The acquisition was completed on April 1, 2024, marking Mattel as the new brand of Donkey Kong Enterprises. Chairman Ynon Kreiz would remained as the creative toy manager for Mattel, although it would later been joining Donkey Kong Marketing Group as president. In addition to this acquisition to Mattel, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company would also entered into negotiations about gaining a $90 billion set to acquire a 95% interest stake in the automotive manufacturing and racing venue company NASCA, who runs over 14 brands (Piston Cup, Nitroade, No Stall, Mood Springs, RPM, Gask-its, Easy Idle, Octane Gain, Lil' Torquey Pistons, Re-Volting, Leak Less, Clutch+Aid, Vitoline and Gasprin) as well as its subsidiaries (Dinoco, Rusteze, Shiny Wax, Shifty Drug and Bumper $ave), with efforts to have a stragetic alliance with NASCA itself to provide experiences and intelectual racing encompassings for the variety of vehicles. 
On March 1, 2024, Sonic Media established Sega Sammy Animation Television (SSAT), an new animation studio, based in San Francisco, California, which is set to produce around 10–20 animated shows, featuring a variety of the Sega Sammy properties. The animation studio's first-ever project to be made will be the Puyo Puyo reboot series for 2025, and its new shows would be in development and/or production, for adaptations to Sonic the Hedgehog, Puyo Puyo, Super Monkey Ball, Jet Set Radio Future, The Wibberlies, Vampire Panic and Virtua Fighter. It would work closely with Sega Animation Studios and Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios to produce a variety of the animated franchises, including the newly upcoming Tama animated series.
Meanwhile, the new division would work closely with Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios to help co-producing several Puyo Puyo!! Quest programs there. With the Puyo Puyo reboot series set for the new division in 2025, Sega Sammy Group will move production of future Puyo Puyo animated catalogue to the newly-formed television animation division, in which SSAT will produce new Puyo Puyo animated programs. Its first co-production, Nate & Tabitha, which focused on the titular main characters as the two child time-travellers/best friends, was announced.
Plus, Sega Sammy Group would form a new adult animation television production unit of Atlus Animation Television (AAT), called Atlus Animation Productions, in which production of Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth would be moved through the new division, with The Console Crew joining production to the new unit. Atlus Animation Television would be rivaling the 20th Television Animation unit of 20th Television.
The newly-established SSAP and AAT would operated as both the television animation arms of Sega Television, Atlus Television Productions and Sammy Television and the animation television production subsidiary of Sega Kids & Adults Productions, akin to The Onward Company's Nickelodeon Movies, which served as both the film production arm of its Nickelodeon brand and the family-oriented film distribution label of its Paramount Pictures division, operating under the Paramount's Players unit. Most of the Cartoon Network Studios and William Street alumni, including Genndy Tartakovsky, moved up to began work on the newly-formed Sega Sammy Animation Productions and Atlus Animation Productions. Star Trek: Lower Decks creator Mike McMahan, and Star Trek: Prodigy co-creators Kevin and Dan Hageman both head the divisions. Star Trek: Prodigy executive producers Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Katie Krentz, Aaron Baiers, Heather Kadin, and Alex Kurtzman would oversee the CGI animation production creativity, while the Star Trek: Lower Decks team, including director Jason Zurek, would work on the 2D animation production exports. Sega Sammy Television Group launched the new sports-themed cable channel, Sammy Sports, as a sister channel to Sammy Network, at midnight (12:00AM), featuring sports programming including Australia Open, Sega Sammy Lux, Sega Sammy Phoenix, Sega Sammy Baseball and Sega Sammy Cup Golf Tournament, with ESPN, Inc. president and chief technology officer Aaron LaBerge as the president of the new channel.
Nintendoverse launched on March 5, 2024 as the re-branding of Donkey Kong on Demand, featuring programming from Donkey Kong Enterprises, including original programming from sister streaming service Peacock as well as DKOD's Donkey Kong Originals, renamed Nintendoverse Originals. A lot of The Pikmin Network's programming premiered on Nintendoverse. Sega Media Networks acquired the programming library from DreamWorks Animation Television, in which a variety of DreamWorks Animation programs would resumed its first-run airings on Sega Channel and its sister channel Sega ZOOM. Sega Retro launched on March 8, 2024 at midnight (12:00AM) as the new sister channel to Sega Channel and Sega ZOOM, showcasing classic programming from Sega Sammy Group, most notably including Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Underground
On March 21, 2024, Donkey Kong Enterprises reestructured/merged a couple of its animation departments and relaunched them as its newly-formed television animation division within the Donkey Kong Television Production unit, with the effort to produce at least 10–30 animated shows targeted at younger and older audiences. Production of the current Donkey Kong Television Production animated shows, including The High School Kids Gang, Kirby All Stars, Penny & Mona, Xenoblade Chronicles and Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, moved up to the newly-formed animation division for new seasons, with the Nintendo Television division handling animation co-production varieties. The new division is the spiritual successor to the oldest Nintendo Animation Studio, which created a variety of Nintendo-branded cartoons since 1986. Donkey Kong Animation Services would be handle animation to these properties, across its pipeline studios in Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea and Singapore. 
On March 26, 2024, as a result of the creation of Sega Sammy Animation Productions and Atlus Animation Productions, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company officially announced that it would merged Sega Networks and Sammy Networks to create a new pay television division to provide the experiences of Sega Sammy Group across pay television efforts, premium television, subscription television, pay-per-view and free-to-view, under the name Sega Sammy Television Networks. In addition to this, several Sega Sammy-branded television networks would now be moving exclusively to premium television starting on January 1, 2025, in which Sega Channel, Sega ZOOM, Sega Retro, Sammy Network and Sammy Sports would become premium television channels, and they will all be focused on premium television programming, including live-action, animated, anime, stop-motion, and claymation content from Sega Sammy Group. TMS would be remained as the linear commercial broadcast television network, while the rest of the Sega Sammy-branded channels would become pay television channels starting in early 2025. Several of the potential Sega Sammy Animation Productions and Atlus Animation Productions shows would be debuting on the Sega Sammy-branded channels and even on Sega+, starting in mid-2025. Also, Sega Sammy Group announced that starting January 1, 2025, all of the Sega Sammy-branded channels would been added to DirecTV, while being transferred to premium television. Meanwhile, Disney General Entertainment Content will continue to make its Disney, ABC, ESPN, FX, XYZNetworks, Teleplex, National Geographic and BabyTV channels available on DirecTV alongside the Sega Sammy television channels, as its channels would permanently been removed from Dish and Sling TV in favor of Donkey Kong Television Networks channels.
On March 28, 2024, Donkey Kong Television Networks announced that it would relaunch the already-relaunched Universal Kids as Universal Family. The effect would take place starting January 1st, 2025, as part of its agreement between it, Disney General Entertainment Content, Dish Network and DirecTV. Two new Universal-branded television channels were also ready to launch, with amongst them including Super Universal and Universal Teens, with Super Universal focusing on the variety of Universal-branded children's movies and Universal Teens focusing on the teen sitcom and drama series, including reruns of Degrassi: A Next Generation. Universal Family, Super Universal and Universal Teens are set to be consolidated under Universal Kids Networks, which would focused on children's programming from Universal Pictures and will be operated as a subsidiary of Nintendo Television itself, as the three channels will launch on January 1, 2025.
This add DKTA, DreamWorks Animation Television, the newly-formed Netflix Animation Studios and SSAT as amongst the "Eight Central Children's Animation Television Studios" organization, alongside America's major animated television production studio Disney Television Animation (DTVA) (itself part of the Disney Animation Group unit of Walt Disney Studios and the animation television production division of Disney Branded Television) and The Onward Company's Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios.
Several key members, people, alumni and workers of Disney Television Animation, including Star vs. the Forces of Evil writers including Dominic Bisigano and Aaron Hammerslay (who both co-created The High School Kids Gang), Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Jake and the Neverland Pirates and Monsters at Work creator and developer Bobs Gannaway, and Sofia the First and Elena of Avalor creator Craig Gerber, went on to join the newly-formed Donkey Kong Television Animation, mostly depending on the creativity of the animated programming, with DTVA veteran Bobs Gannaway also joining the newly-formed division. Puyo Puyo: Puzzle Pop was released on April 4, 2024 as a Apple Arcade title.
On April 8, 2024, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced plans to acquire Riot Games for an undisclosed sum. This also included the rights to League of Legends (among others) as well as the Arcane television adaptation. This led TSODKC to gather everything of creating new experiences of League of Legends. Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, the co-chairman of Riot Games, stated that "they are going to bring League of Legends under the Donkey Kong Enterprises banner there". Meanwhile, Valorant, a Riot Games property, would be consolidated under Sonic Media via its Bandai Namco brand division.
On April 15, 2024, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that it had greenlit 118 new animated series, including the new one from Bisigano and Hammerslay, among others from the Hageman Brothers, Tasuki the Light Star creator Amanda Hernandez and Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward, as well as select animated series, including the ones adapted from the Super Smash Bros. multi-franchise catalogue, from several DTVA staff members, including Cat Harman-Mitchell and Leslie Park (DK Animated Series #1), Lindsey Reckis (DK Animated Series #2), Mickey Mouse Funhouse co-creators Phil Weinstein and Thomas Hart (Beavers in Space), Adam Colás (DK Animated Series #3), Derek Kirk Kim (The Mystery of Murasame Castle), Sabrina Cotugno (Art Academy), Bobs Gannaway (Mario Paint and Yoshi in Action!), Todd McClintock (Mappy) and Hannah Jost (Electroplankton), plus additional projects from several legendary DTVA creators including Fish Hooks, Pickle and Peanut and Almost Naked Animals creator Noah Z. Jones, Amphibia creator Matt Braly, The Owl House creator Dana Terrance, Fancy Nancy developer Krista Tucker, and Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch. Meanwhile, Hailey's on It! storyboarders Ryan Agustin, Inbal Breda, Nicole Fridrich, Brad Goodchild, Lauren McKinley, Morgan Shandro, Rhya Voskuil and Kaden Westbrook began working on a new animated special after formerly working on Hailey's on It!, while DuckTales storywriters Francisco Angones, Madison Bateman, Colleen Evanson, Christian Magalhaes, Ben Siemon and Bob Snow, itself co-developers of the Nickelodeon's reboot to Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, were developing select Pokémon animated shows, with Angones and Matt Youngberg developing a WarioWare animated series. 
Sega Sammy Animation Television also worked on several projects, including most based on the Sega Sammy properties, including Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Monkey Ball, Panzer Dragoon, Jet Set Radio, Space Channel 5, and Puyo Puyo, with amongst them including Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania, Panzer Dragoon, Jet Set Radio Future, Sonic Rivals and Playground Heroes. All twelve playable characters from Super Mario Bros. Wonder will appear in cameos in few shows, and will all become the mascots of DKTVA. Meanwhile, Sonic the Hedgehog will become the mascot of SSAT. Sega Sammy Animation Television itself would began working on select shows under Cartoon Network Studios alumni, including Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar, Summer Camp Island creator Julia Pott, Infinity Train creator Owen Dennis, Mighty Magiswords creator Kyle A. Carroza, and We Baby Bears developer Manny Hernandez, with William Street staff members working on Atlus Animation Productions projects, including Rick & Morty creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. Sega Channel pitched the project Stuck Princesses. fromOK K.O.!: Let's Be Heroes! creator Ian Jones-Quartey. Sega Sammy Animation Television hired DC League of Super-Pets director Jared Stern to create and develop projects for the studio, including R-15, as well as Nathan & Tabitha, which Stern served as the showrunner.
On April 22, 2024, to commemorate with the release of Puyo Puyo: Puzzle Pop and the new slate of the new Donkey Kong and Sega Sammy television animation units, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced plans to restructure its entertainment structure for its Donkey Kong Enterprises and Sonic Media units to mark expansion for the Donkey Kong Enterprises hammer, which offered the new experiences of the newer content, including Nintendoverse originals. This led to include a addition to wholly retire the main Puyo Puyo multimedia franchise while retaining its titular video game series, and expand Sega Sammy Television Animation into a variety of entertainment resources including its film and television strategy, thus forming an excursion to create new Sega Sammy-branded television animation productions, including television series as well as theatrical, made-for-TV, direct-to-video and direct-to-digital films. Meanwhile, Sega Animation Studios and Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios will continue to release three of their own feature films and other production strategies until effectively January 1, 2026, when both animation studios will be folded into Sega Sammy Television Animation. The Epic Sonic Movie was announced as the sequel to Sonic Prime, focused on several Sonic the Hedgehog heroes battling against several villains to save the universe from the devious Eggman Empire, and is scheduled for its release on September 12, 2025. The film will be produced by Sega Sammy Television Animation rather than Sega Animation Studios. A potential Puyo Puyo Champions feature film was pulled from its potential November 22, 2024 release date, with the newest Final Fantasy feature film taking over the scheduled release date.
Meanwhile, The Adventures of Lipsy & Victoria would eventually spun off into a separate franchise, retaining its Puyo Puyo traditional animation usage and multi-sets of backs-to-backs, with Puyo Puyo!! Quest doing so in the precise manner and vice versa. A new Puyo Puyo: Puzzle Pop animated series was announced as the reboot to the franchise, serving as the rebooted franchise to the original media franchise itself, even including originally the original Puyo Puyo animated series. 
In addition to these changes, several upcoming Puyo Puyo projects, including Puyo Puyo University, Factory of Death, Puyo Puyo x Goosebumps: The Rise of the Mutilation, and the upcoming sequel to Puyo Puyo: The Movie (which was downsized production), were all cancelled. As such, several of the Sega Animation Studios films in development or production were cancelled as a result of the expansion of Sega Sammy Animation Television, while Puyo Puyo Tetris finished production. Robodog, which is slated to be Sega Animation Studios' fourth film, moved production to Sega Sammy Animation Television, and was delayed until February 20, 2026, two years away from its original scheduled date on November 22, 2024. Meanwhile, FGTeev Saves the Day, which is set to be the SAS' fifth film, will be moving production to Sega Sammy Animation Television, when it will shift its theatrical release to its television-exclusive release on Sega Channel as the first-ever "Sega Channel Original Movie", due to Sega Sammy Television Group began releasing its own television films as well, most notably for broadcast.
Sega Animation Studios president Gina Shay would been head back to DreamWorks Animation while Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios president Jane Hartwell would have been joining Nintendo MovieToons. Sonic Media lays off 250 of Sega Animation Studios employees, while over 100 employess of Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios team would remain themselves to continue producing several projects effectively until 2026, when the whole staff will be moved to SSAT. Puyo Puyo Tetris itself would also been the third and final film produced by Sega Animation Studios as well, due to the planned expansion of Sega Sammy Animation Television.
SSAT also launched its new divisions: Sega Toon Films and Sammy Theatrical Television Production. Its new made-for-TV subsidiary is Sega Animation Television Premieres. The new divisions would be engaged in creation, development and production of the SSAT properties. Sega Kids & Adults Productions would been remained active as the parent company to Sega Animation Studios, Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios, TMS Entertainment and Marza Animation Planet, until effectively January 1, 2026, when SK&AP would be folded into SSAT alongside SAS and PPQS, while Sega, Atlus, Creative Assembly and Sega Toys were transferred back under Sega Sammy Group via its newly-formed "Games & Interactive" division. 
The Sega Animation Studios and Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios' sister companies, Nintendo MovieToons and Ubisoft Animation Productions, will be remained, while Donkey Kong Animation Enterprises was shut down thereafter, as both animation studios, alongside Illumination, DreamWorks Animation and even Universal Animation Studios, moved back into Donkey Kong Filmed Entertainment Group, with only Sega Animation Studios and Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios being remained as part of the aforementioned SK&AP until effectively January 1, 2026, when the animation studios will be shut down. The Sonic Media's DreamWorks Animation, Bandai Namco, The Jim Henson Company, Pathé, Viz Media and Naughty Dog brands won't be affected with the Sega Sammy Animation Television's expansion, though Bandai Namco will have a new expansion for its properties, with DreamWorks handling production of its projects with outside studios starting in 2024. 
Due to this, Donkey Kong Enterprises will continue to rely on its entertainment content thereafter to keep expanding into its new variety of these feature films, television shows, specials, short films, and interactive entertainment programs to expand its excited properties, including the household entertainment properties based on the Super Smash Bros. franchise, allowing Donkey Kong Enterprises to expand more and grow with new structures for the media conglomerate as well, with Donkey Kong Enterprises served to be the major flagship property of The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company.
Meanwhile, The Puyo Puyo Tetris Company would go on to continue producing its projects, including its joint collaboration projects with Disney and among others. TPPTC also extended its agreement with The Onward Company for additional franchises for Nickelodeon and PlayStation Productions.
On April 23, 2024, a day after the announcement, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company's Sonic Media also announced plans to launch a new programming block, hosted by Better Nate Than Ever stars Rueby Wood and Aria Brooks, titled "Toonimation", which would show animated programs from Sega Sammy Group, plus newer ones from Bandai Namco, The Jim Henson Company and Naughty Dog, as well as several programs from DreamWorks Animation Television. The block will debut on Sega Channel on New Year's Eve 2025, followed by its later debuts on Sega ZOOM and Sammy Channel.
On May 18, 2024, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced the three Backyardigans animated feature films in production: The Yeti (2025), Robot Rampage (2025), and Mission to Mars. The Yeti is scheduled for its release on March 21, 2025, taking over the release date from FGTeev Saves the Day, which was delayed to June 20, 2025, with the Rayman Raving Rabbids animated feature now being pushed month later to April 18. Robot Rampage is scheduled for its release on October 22, 2025, while Mission to Mars is scheduled for its release on April 22, 2026. Steve Carell will voice the eponymous character in the 2025 feature film, with Mary Parent, Jonny Belt, Robert Scull and Curt Kanemoto set to produce all three films. The upcoming International Super Spy: Welcome to Terraland was also pushed back one final time to December 20, 2024. 
On June 20, 2024, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced that Puyo Puyo: Puzzle Pop will premiere on June 20, 2025. Several Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios projects, with the exception of The Beach World Movie and The Happily Adventures of Ringo & Amitie, would be moving development and ongoing production to Sega Sammy Animation Television, leaving The Beach World Movie and The Happily Adventures of Ringo & Amitie as the final Puyo Puyo!! Quest Studios films to be produced.
On July 1, 2024, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company officially canceled the upcoming Puyo Puyo Champions film (while its migration was ascended to Cokeverse), as director Mark Osborne admitted a mistake about the film all along. Two weeks later, Braly confirmed that The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company would continue producing content based on the Puyo Puyo franchise, but it would no longer produce any American or nationwide adaptations to the Puyo Puyo series, leading to the hacking of this American influences about the franchise and due to the suprising expansion of Sega Sammy Animation Television, as well as the success of Sony Music Animation Group. The Puyo Puyo: Puzzle Pop, Puyo Puyo!! Quest and The Puyo Puyo!! Quest Music Community franchises would be resumed. An newly rather anime film, directed by Koji Shindo and Naohiro Hiaro and written by Utako Yoshino, is in development in partnership with TMS Entertainment for its scheduled release date in Japan on March 6, 2026, as well as newest reboot to Puyo Puyo: The Movie is in development for its release on December 24, 2027.
On August 1, 2024, The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company announced The Scorekids, its newest animated franchise and adaptation to the Los Angeles-recorded scores and Gina Zimmitti's works (even the Hollywood Studio Symphony), focused on the scoring children who resided together at any scoring stage and/or go to work via contributing systems as well as various adventures there. It is the joint collaboration project of Donkey Kong Television Animation and Donkey Kong Music Community Group and its parent company Zimmitti Music Group, with DreamWorks Animation Television handling additional participation and residual associate credit. The Scorekids is set to firstly feature a series of shorts, music videos (including Back 2 Back), soundtracks, and an upcoming television series for Nintendoverse, as well as potential merchandising. The franchise is unrelated to Cartoonverse Worldwide's co-productions with DeCrescent and Rotter Music Contracting or Zimmitti Music Group (including Zack & Kouchand).
==Key people==
*Shigeru Miyamoto, President of The Sonic & Donkey Kong Company
===Nintendo===
====Global====
* Fusajiro Yamauchi - The founder and first (1st) president of Nintendo. (1889-1929)
* Sekiryo Yamauchi - The second president of Nintendo. (1929-1949)
* Hiroshi Yamauchi - Third president; brought company into video game industry. (1949-2002)
* Satoru Iwata - Fourth president. Previously was president of HAL Laboratory. (2002-2015)
* Tatsumi Kimishima - Fifth president. Previously was second president of Nintendo of America and was Managing Director from 2013 to 2015. (2015-2018)
* Shuntaro Furukawa - Sixth and current president. Succeeds Kimishima who retired from the role in June 2018. (2018-present)
====Nintendo of America====
* Minoru Arakawa - First president of Nintendo of America.
* Reggie Fils-Aime - Third president of Nintendo of America.
* Doug Bowser - Fourth and current president of Nintendo of America.
====Nintendo of Europe====
* Satoru Shibata - Former president of Nintendo of Europe. The current General Manager of the Marketing and Licensing Divisions at Nintendo. He is in charge of the Advertising and Global Marketing Department
* Stephan Bole - The current President of Nintendo of Europe. He was previously in charge of Nintendo France.
* Koji Miyake - The current CEO / Chairman of Nintendo of Europe
====Nintendo of Korea====
* Hiroyuki Fukuda - Current president of Nintendo of Korea.
====Other Departments====
* Shigeyuki Takahashi - Senior EO, General Manager of General Affairs Division and in charge of Quality Assurance Department and Investor Relations
* Hirokazu Shinshi - Senior EO, General Manager of Manufacturing Division
* Hajime Murakami - Executive Officer, General Manager of Finance Administration Division
* Naoki Noguchi - Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
* Keizo Kato - Deputy General Manager of the Development Administration & Support Division
* Yusuke Beppu - Deputy General Manager of Business Development Division
* Takuya Yoshimura - Deputy General Manager of General Affairs Division
* Yutaka Takenaga - Deputy General Manager of Corporate Analysis & Adminstration Division
* Satoshi Yamato - President of Nintendo Sales Co., Ltd., Former General Manager of Marketing Division
* Susumu Tanaka - Corporate Adviser. Former Director, General Manager of Licensing Division
* Hiroshi Imanishi - Former head of General Affairs, retired since 2002.
===Designers===
====Nintendo EAD/EPD====
* Shigeru Miyamoto - On September 16, 2015, he left his managerial position as head of EAD and became a Creative Fellow for Nintendo. Creator of Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Pikmin and Nintendogs.
* Takashi Tezuka - Former Deputy General Manager of all EAD studios. Worked on many titles including the original Super Mario Bros., Yoshi's Island and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
* Yoshiaki Koizumi - Deputy General Manager for the Entertainment Planning and Development Division. Current manager of Nintendo EPD Tokyo games. Director of Super Mario Sunshine, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat and Super Mario Galaxy.
* Katsuya Eguchi - Deputy General Manager for the Entertainment Planning and Development Division. Current manager of EPD Kyoto studios. Director of Star Fox, Animal Crossing and Wii Sports.
* Hideki Konno - Current manager of the Mobile Production Group. Former manager of Nintendo EAD 1 and Producer of Nintendogs and Mario Kart DS onwards and Director of earlier Mario Kart games
* Kosuke Yabuki - Manager of Production Group No. 9 in Nintendo EPD. Producer of ARMS, Director of Mario Kart 7 & 8
* Hisashi Nogami - Deputy General Manager of Nintendo EPD. Directed Animal Crossing up to City Folk and produced Splatoon
* Eiji Aonuma - Former manager of Nintendo EAD 3 and director of various The Legend of Zelda titles.
* Hiroyuki Kimura - Former Manager & Producer of EAD Group No. 4, behind New Super Mario Bros. and Pikmin from the Wii onwards
* Tadashi Sugiyama - Producer of Nintendo EAD5, behind Wii Fit, Star Fox and Steel Diver
* Takaya Imamura - Director, in charge of Star Fox, F-Zero and Steel Diver
* Kouichi Kawamoto - Producer of Streetpass Plaza, Miitopia and 1-2-Switch, Director of Brain Age series
====SPD====
* Shinya Takahashi - Director. General Manager of Entertainment Planning & Development Division and Supervisor of the Business Development Division and Development Administration & Support Division. Formerly, General Manager of SPD Division.
* Yoshio Sakamoto - Senior Officer and creator of many Nintendo games including Metroid and WarioWare. Former Deputy General Manager of Nintendo SPD .
* Kensuke Tanabe - Senior Officer. Former head of SPD3.
* Keisuke Terasaki - Deputy General Manager of Development Administration & Support Division and head of External Production Groups. Worked under Kensuke Tanabe on various series like Art Academy and Paper Mario
* Hitoshi Yamagami - Manager of EPD Production Group No. 1. Former manager of Nintendo SPD2, and creator of many puzzle games.
* Genki Yokota - Project Leader in EPD Production Group No. 1. Has worked with the Xenoblade and Fire Emblem series.
* Yurie Hattori - Member of SPD1, who has directed many games.
* Risa Tabata - Assistant Producer at SPD2. Has worked often with Retro Studios
* Toyokazu Nonaka - Producer of many Mario Sports games as well as the additional StreetPass Games
====R&D====
* Masayuki Uemura - Designer of the Famicom/Nintendo Entertainment System.
* Gunpei Yokoi (deceased) - Supervised various Nintendo R&D1 video games. Creator of Game Boy and Game & Watch
* Genyo Takeda - Former head of R&D and lead on systems like the Wii and Wii U. Technology Fellow
* Ko Shiota - Current General Manager of Platform Technology Development Division. Formerly, Deputy General Manager of Integrated Research and Development Division (Handhelds.
* Takashi Shimada - Current Deputy General Manager of Platform Technology Development Division. Formerly, Deputy General Manager of System Development Division and Software Environment Development Division.
====Music Composers====
* Koji Kondo - Composer of most of Nintendo's earlier music
* Mahito Yokota - Composer at EAD who specializes in live orchestra music.
* Toru Minegishi - Composer at EAD, Composed tracks for Splatoon and various Zelda games
* Kazumi Totaka - Composer at EAD, responsible for the Animal Crossing soundtrack. Voice of Yoshi, Professor E. Gadd
* Kenji Yamamoto - Composer at SPD who created the music for Metroid and Famicom Detective Club.
====Nintendo Software Technology====
=====Retro Studios=====
* Michael Kelbaugh - President of Retro Studios
=====Monolith Soft====
* Tetsuya Takahashi - Lead producer at Monolith Soft
* Yasuyuki Honne - Head of Monolith Kyoto
* Koh Kojima
=====1-Up Studio=====
* Gen Kadoi - President of 1-Up Studio
=====Nd Cube=====
* Hidetoshi Endo - President of Nd Cube
* Shuichiro Nishiya - Head of Development
=====Second parties=====
* Satoshi Tajiri - Creator of Pokémon.
* Shigesato Itoi - Creator of Earthbound series.
* Masahiro Sakurai - Creator of Kirby, and Super Smash Bros.
* Masayoshi Tanimura - Current head of HAL Laboratory
* Tohru Narihiro - Producer on the Fire Emblem series, former chief programmer on several classic Intelligent Systems
* Ryuta Kawashima - Creator of Brain Age series.
====Localization====
* Leslie Swan - Former Nintendo Treehouse manager, translator.
* William Trinen - Former Nintendo Treehouse manager, Product Development Manager
* Nate Bihldorff - Nintendo Treehouse manager, Translator. Voice of Shy Guy in the Mario series
* Tim O'Leary - Nintendo Treehouse manager
* Reiko Ninomiya - Nintendo Treehouse manager
* Dan Owsen - Nintendo Treehouse manager
* Scot Ritchey - Nintendo Treehouse manager
===Sega Sammy Holdings===
====Managements====
* Hajime Satomi - Chairman, Representative Director
* Haruki Satomi - President and Group EO, Representative Director
* Koichi Fukazawa - Senior Executive Vice President and Group CFO, Director of the Board
* Hideo Yoshizawa - Senior Vice President, Director of the Board
* Kohei Katsukawa - Director of the Board (External)
* Melanie Brock - Director of the Board (External)
* Naoko Murasaki - Director of the Board (External)
* Fujiyo Ishiguroi - Director of the Board (External)
====Audit & Supervisory Board Members====
* Yukito Sakaue - Audit & Supervisory Board Member
* Kazutaka Kubo - Audit & Supervisory Board Member (External)
* Shione Kinoshita - Audit & Supervisory Board Member (External)
====Executive Officers====
* Yukio Sugino - Executive Vice President, Executive Officer
* Makoto Takahashi - Executive Vice President, Executive Officer
* Yoichi Owaki - Executive Vice President, Executive Officer
* Toru Nakahara - Senior Vice President, Executive Officer
* Takaharu kato - Vice President, Executive Officer
* Rei Kudo - Vice President, Executive Officer
* Hironobu Otsuka - Vice President, Executive Officer
* Koji Takeyama - Vice President, Executive Officer
* Yuka Ichiki - Vice President, Executive Officer
* Yukio Kawasaki - Vice President, Executive Officer
====Recruit====
* Yuki Hiraguchi - Licensing Department, Group Licensing Division
* Takako Yamamoto - Shared Accounting Department, Finance & Accounting Division
* Ryohei Watanabe - Platform Department, IT Solutions Division
* Maki Hirahata - Sustainability Promotion Office, Sustainability Promotion Section
* Nanami Chigasaki - Human Resources Planning Department, Human Resources Development Division
* Masanori Arai - General Affairs Service Department, General Affairs Division
* Madoka Wakui - Legal Department, Legal Affairs Intellectual Property Division
* Shiho Takahashi - Intellectual Property Department, Legal & Intellectual Property Division
===Square Enix===
* Tadao Toyoshima - Outside Director
* Yosuke Matsuda - President and Representative Director
* Yasuhiro Fukushima - Honorary Chairman
* Yoshinori Kitase - Director
* Yuu Miyake - Director
* Katsuyoshi Matsuura - Director
* Hideaki Sato - Executive Officer
* Hirokazu Nishikado - Director
* Yosuke Saito - Director
* Michihiro Sasaki - Executive Officer
* Kazuharu Watanabe - Executive Officer
* Naoki Yoshida - Director
* Ryoichi Kobayashi - Director
===Bandai Namco Holdings===
* Shukuo Ishikawa - Chairman 
* Mitsuaki Taguchi - President & Representative Director
* Shuji Ohtsu - Director & General Manager-Group Administration
* Katsuhiko Kamijo - Outside Director
* Osamu Sudoh - Outside Director
* Yuji Asako - Director & General Manager-Corporate Planning
* Mikiharu Noma - Outside Director
* Satoko Kuwabara - Outside Director
* Yuzuru Matsuda - Outside Director
* Shukuo Ishikawa - Chairman
* Mitsuaki Taguchi - President & Representative Director
* Shuji Ohtsu - Director & General Manager-Group Administration
* Katsuhiko Kamijo - Outside Director
* Osamu Sudoh - Outside Director
* Yuji Asako - Director & General Manager-Corporate Planning
* Katsuhiko Kohtari - Auditor
* Kazuo Asami - Auditor
* Mikiharu Noma - Outside Director
* Satoko Kuwabara - Outside Director
* Yuzuru Matsuda - Outside Director
===Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)===
* Paula Kerger - President and CEO
* Mario Vecchi - CTO
* Jonathan Barzilay - CCP
* Beth Hoppe - Chief Programming Executive and General Manager, General Audience Programming
* Michael Kelley - SVP, Programming & Business Affairs
* Brian Reddington - Executive Director, PBS Foundation
* Lesli Rotenberg - General Manager, Children's Programming / Senior Vice President, Marketing & Communications
* Ira Rubenstein - SVP and General Manager, PBS Digital
* Juan Sepúlveda - SVP, Station Services
* Katherine Lauderdale - SVP, General Counsel; Corporate Secretary
* Mary Plantamura - Associate General Counsel and Assisant Corporate Secretary
==Assets==
==References==
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