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IQue

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iQue, Ltd.
Native name
神游科技
Shényóu Kējì
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryVideo games
FoundedDecember 6, 2002 (2002-12-06)[1]
Founder
HeadquartersSuzhou, China[2]
Key people
Wei Yen (CEO)
ServicesSoftware translation and localization
Game development
ParentNintendo (2013–present)
Websitewww.ique.com

iQue, Ltd. (simplified Chinese: 神游科技; traditional Chinese: 神遊科技; pinyin: Shényóu Kējì) is a Chinese video game/game localization and support development company located in Suzhou. It was founded as a joint venture between Wei Yen and Nintendo in 2002 as a Chinese video game console manufacturing company. The following year, the company released the iQue Player. The company had manufactured and distributed official Nintendo products for the mainland Chinese market under the iQue brand until 2018.

iQue only released portable Nintendo games for 3DS XL, DS, Game Boy Advance, and Game Boy Advance SP. The iQue Player is the only home console available from the company in China. There were plans to release the Wii in all of China but when Satoru Iwata officially announced the release date for it on 20 September 2007, he said it would only be available in Hong Kong, under the Nintendo brand. The Nintendo DSi was released in China in December 2009 as iQue DSi. The Nintendo 3DS XL was released in China as iQue 3DS XL in December 2012.[3] By 2013, the company became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nintendo.[4][5]

The company worked on the emulators for NES and Game Boy on Virtual Console for 3DS and Nintendo 64 for the Wii U in the beginning of the 2010s, while on Nintendo Switch, the company was responsible for the Nintendo 64 emulator for Nintendo Switch Online.[6]

By 2018, Nintendo had ceased any official distribution of older game consoles into mainland China under the iQue brand. Nintendo partnered with Tencent to bring the Nintendo Switch into the Chinese market at the end of 2019.[7] Since 2017, iQue continues operations by offering consumer support for any previously released products,[8] and translating and localizing new games released worldwide by Nintendo into simplified Chinese, while Nintendo Hong Kong does traditional Chinese.[9]

In 2019, iQue began to hire developers, along with programmers and testers, indicating that the company was transitioning into development to support game projects for Nintendo EPD.[10]

  1. ^ "神游科技（中国）有限公司 – 天眼查" (in Chinese).
  2. ^ "tewaswork" (in Chinese). iQue. Archived from the original on 24 October 2011. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
  3. ^ ""iQue 3DS XL" 今年12月发售". Ique.com. Archived from the original on 11 November 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  4. ^ "Up-to-date listing of Nintendo subsidiaries". Nintendo Everything. 28 June 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  5. ^ "関係会社の状況" (PDF). Nintendo. 28 June 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  6. ^ luigiblood. "The oddities of Nintendo Switch Online retro service". Tumblr. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Nintendo Switch's Chinese Edition Only Supports Three Games". Hype Beast. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  8. ^ Iggy (5 March 2018). "Official iQue Website Updated After 6 Years". NintendoSoup. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  9. ^ Iggy (1 December 2017). "iQue Is Now Localizing Nintendo Switch Games Into Simplified Chinese". NintendoSoup. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  10. ^ "工作 | iQue | 神游科技官方网站". Archived from the original on 4 March 2018.

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