Editing Nintendo (section)

=== Additional distributors ===

==== Active Boeki ====
Active Boeki is a distribution company based in [[Kobe]] that handles the distribution of Nintendo hardware and software in [[Southeast Asia]] and the [[Middle East]] since the Game & Watch era, under the responsibility of Nintendo Co. Ltd. in Japan.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Iggy |date=2024-03-02 |title=Nintendo Of Europe Takes Over Saudi Arabia, New Distributor Installed |url=https://nintendosoup.com/nintendo-of-europe-takes-over-saudi-arabia-new-distributor-installed/ |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=NintendoSoup |language=en-US}}</ref> The company works with local resellers, such as Singapore-based Maxsoft handling distribution and sales in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. Active Boeki also works with resellers such as UAE-based Active Gulf and Saudi-based Shas Samurai, responsible for distribution and sales in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Active Boeki K.K. |url=https://www.activeboeki.com/ |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=Active Boeki K.K. |language=en}}</ref> In 2023, Active Boeki through Shas Samurai has ceased its distributing operations for Saudi Arabia, as AIC Trading received distribution rights for Nintendo in the country, overseen by Nintendo of Europe.<ref name=":2" /> Active Boeki through Maxsoft is also no longer the sole exclusive distributor for Nintendo in Southeast Asia after the appointment of new distributors in charge of distribution, sales, promotion and pop-up stores related to Nintendo products domestically in all countries previously covered by Maxsoft except Indonesia, such as Convergent Systems responsible for Singapore and Malaysia,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gerald |date=2021-12-08 |title=Nintendo gets a new official distributor with Convergent Systems, so what's changed? |url=https://www.asiaone.com/digital/nintendo-gets-new-official-distributor-convergent-systems-so-whats-changed |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=AsiaOne}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Chapree |first=Chief |date=2023-10-10 |title=Convergent Distribution is the new Nintendo Switch distributor in Malaysia: What does this mean for gamers? |url=https://soyacincau.com/2023/10/10/convergent-nintendo-switch-distributor-malaysia/ |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=SoyaCincau |language=en-US}}</ref> Synnex for Thailand,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Parkhouse |first=Arthur |date=2024-12-15 |title=Nintendo Opens Its First Official Store in Bangkok |url=https://hypebeast.com/2024/12/nintendo-bangkok-store-opening-info |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=Hypebeast}}</ref> and VST-ECS for the Philippines.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ronquillo |first=Ram |date=2023-12-04 |title=VSTECS Phils Appointed as Official Distributor of Nintendo Switch in PH |url=https://www.gadgetpilipinas.net/2023/12/vstecs-phils-nintendo-switch-ph/ |access-date=2025-04-19 |language=en-US}}</ref>

==== Bergsala ====
[[Bergsala]], a third-party company based in Sweden, exclusively handles Nintendo operations in the Nordic region. Bergsala's relationship with Nintendo was established in 1981 when the company sought to distribute ''Game & Watch'' units to Sweden, which later expanded to the NES console by 1986. Bergsala was the only non-Nintendo owned distributor of Nintendo's products until 2019,<ref>{{cite web |last=Skrebels |first=Joe |date=9 December 2019 |title=The Lie That Helped Build Nintendo |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/12/09/the-lie-that-helped-build-nintendo |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221231714/https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/12/09/the-lie-that-helped-build-nintendo |archive-date=21 December 2019 |access-date=9 December 2019 |work=[[IGN]]}}</ref> when Tor Gaming gained distribution rights in Israel.

==== Tencent ====
Nintendo has partnered with [[Tencent]] to release Nintendo products in China, following the lifting of the country's console ban in 2015. In addition to distributing hardware, Tencent helps with the governmental approval process for video game software.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nintendo, With Tencent's Help, to Sell Switch Console in China|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-seeks-to-sell-the-switch-in-china-11555581221?mod=article_inline|last1=Mochizuki|first1=Takashi|last2=Li|first2=Shan|date=18 April 2019|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|access-date=17 December 2019|archive-date=6 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191206201354/https://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-seeks-to-sell-the-switch-in-china-11555581221?mod=article_inline|url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Tor Gaming ====
In January 2019, [[Ynet]] and [[IGN]] Israel reported that negotiations about the official distribution of Nintendo products in the country were ongoing.<ref name=":4" /> After two months, IGN Israel announced that Tor Gaming Ltd., a company established in earlier 2019, gained a distribution agreement with Nintendo of Europe, handling official retailing beginning at the start of March,<ref>{{cite web|script-title=he:לראשונה בישראל – תור גיימינג משיקה את נינטנדו בארץ ביבוא רשמי|trans-title=For the first time in Israel - Tor Gaming launches Nintendo in Israel as an official import|url= https://il.ign.com/nintendo/40693/news/lrashvnh-byshral-tvr-gyymyng-mshyqh-at-nyntndv-barts-bybva-rshmy |date=12 March 2019|website=IGN Israel|language=he|access-date=17 April 2020|archive-date=5 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805003504/https://il.ign.com/nintendo/40693/news/lrashvnh-byshral-tvr-gyymyng-mshyqh-at-nyntndv-barts-bybva-rshmy|url-status=live}}</ref> followed by opening an official online store the next month.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nintendo.co.il/|title=עבור לדף המבוקש|website=www.nintendo.co.il|access-date=28 February 2021|archive-date=24 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124022257/http://nintendo.co.il/|url-status=live}}</ref>

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