Genius Sonority

Genius Sonority, Inc.

Native name

| ジニアス・ソノリティ株式会社
Type| Private
Industry| Video games
Founded| June 2002; 23 years ago (2002-06)[1]
Headquarters| Nihonbashi, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan[1]

Key people

| Manabu Yamana (president, CEO)[1]
Products| Games for Nintendo video game consoles

Number of employees

| 20 (2024)[2]
Website| Genius Sonority

Genius Sonority, Inc. (ジニアス・ソノリティ株式会社, Jiniasu Sonoriti Kabushiki Kaisha) is a Japanese video game development studio, whose staff consists of programmers who have previously worked on the Dragon Quest series of video games.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Titles
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## History

Genius Sonority was incorporated in June 2002 for the original purpose of developing Pokémon games for home consoles, with funding provided by Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi’s Q Fund, a cash reserve used for Nintendo game company start-ups.[3] Current shareholders of the company include Yamana Satoru, Nintendo, and The Pokémon Company.[1] The company's founder and current president, Manabu Yamana, is best known as a key person at Heartbeat, a company that developed games in the Dragon Quest series for Enix.[4] Yamana was joined in his efforts by members of Creatures Inc., the second-party Nintendo affiliate, which jointly owns the Pokémon Company and IP along with Nintendo and Game Freak.[4]

As well as developing various Pokémon-related titles, they also co-developed Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors for the Wii with Eighting.[5] The game was released in Japan in July 2007, and the rest of the world within ten months.

Genius Sonority's current flagship franchise is The Denpa Men, an RPG franchise revolving around forming a party by catching creatures known as "Denpa Men", who are randomly generated based on nearby Wi-Fi signals. The first game in the franchise, Software:The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave, was released on Nintendo 3DS in 2012, and several games followed, including a mobile title and an entry for Nintendo Switch.

## Titles

Year  | Title  | Platform  | Publisher  | Notes

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2003  | Pokémon Colosseum | GameCube | Nintendo/The Pokémon Company |
2005  | Software:Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness | GameCube  |
2006  | Pokémon Trozei! | Nintendo DS  |
Pokémon Battle Revolution | Wii |
2007  | Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors | Wii  | Square Enix | Co-developed with Eighting
100 Classic Book Collection | Nintendo DS  | Nintendo  |
2008  | Disney Fairies: Tinker Bell | Nintendo DS  | Disney Interactive |
2010  | Otona no Renai Shōsetsu: Harlequin Selection [6] | Nintendo DS  | Nintendo  |
2011  | Software:Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure | Nintendo DS  | Nintendo/The Pokémon Company  |
2012  | Software:The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave | Nintendo 3DS  | Genius Sonority  |
The Denpa Men 2: Beyond the Waves | Nintendo 3DS  |
2013  | The Denpa Men 3: The Rise of Digitoll | Nintendo 3DS  |
2014  | Pokémon Battle Trozei | Nintendo 3DS  | Nintendo/The Pokémon Company  |
The Denpa Men RPG Free! | Nintendo 3DS  | Genius Sonority  |
2015  | Pokémon Shuffle | Nintendo 3DS, Android, iOS | Nintendo/The Pokémon Company  |
2017  | The New Denpa Men | Android, iOS  | Genius Sonority  |
2020  | Pokémon Café ReMix[7] | Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS  | Nintendo/The Pokémon Company  |
2024  | The New Denpa Men RPG Free! | Nintendo Switch  | Genius Sonority  |

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "会社紹介 (About Us)" (in ja). GeniusSonority.jp. April 1, 2008. https://www.geniussonority.co.jp/about/.
2. ↑ "ジニアス・ソノリティ". https://www.geniussonority.co.jp/about/.
3. ↑ "Yamauchi Q Fund sees Dragon Quest start-up". Spong.com. 2002-08-08. https://spong.com/article/3612/Yamauchi-Q-Fund-sees-Dragon-Quest-start-up.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Long, Andrew (2002-08-07). "Nintendo Lures RPG Talent". RPGamer.com. https://archive.rpgamer.com/news/Q3-2002/080702d.html.
5. ↑ Gantayat, Anoop (2007-01-23). "Dragon Quest Swords Update". IGN. https://www.ign.com/articles/2007/01/23/dragon-quest-swords-update.
6. ↑ Nintendo.co.jp
7. ↑ "Pokémon Café Mix for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Game Details". https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/pokemon-cafe-mix-switch/.

## External links

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* v
* t
* e

Pokémon

* Nintendo
* Game Freak
* Satoshi Tajiri
* Ken Sugimori
* Junichi Masuda
* Creatures Inc.
* The Pokémon Company
* Tsunekazu Ishihara

Media|

* Anime series
* Books
* Films
* Soundtracks
* Trading Card Game
* Trading Figure Game
* Video games

Manga|

* Volume list
* Pocket Monsters
* Adventures
* characters
* volumes
* 1–20
* 21–40
* 41–current
* Magical Pokémon Journey
* The Electric Tale of Pikachu
* Challenge! Battle Frontier
* Ginji's Rescue Team
* Diamond and Pearl Adventure!
* Pocket Monsters RéBURST
* chapters
* Black and White

Characters|

* Ash Ketchum
* Brock
* Misty
* Lillie
* All Pokémon species

Other|

* Concerts
* Pokémon Live!
* Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions
* Play! Pokémon
* World Championships
* Burger King recall
* PETA satirical browser game
* Poképark
* Pokémon Jet
* Pikachu sculpture
* Twitch Plays Pokémon
* Super Smash Bros.
* Universe
* Lavender Town

* Book
* Category

* v
* t
* e

Nintendo development teams

Nintendo

Divisions|

* Entertainment Planning & Development
* Platform Technology Development

| Former|

* Research & Development 1
* Research & Development 2
* Integrated Research & Development (IRD)
* Research & Engineering (RED)
* Entertainment Analysis & Development (EAD)
* Software Planning & Development (SPD)
* System Development (NSD)

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Subsidiaries|

* 1-Up Studio
* iQue
* Monolith Soft
* NDcube
* Nintendo European Research & Development (NERD)
* Nintendo Software Technology (NST)
* Nintendo Technology Development (NTD)
* Retro Studios

| Former|

* Nintendo Network Service Database
* Project Sora

|

Major affiliates|

* Bandai Namco
* Entertainment
* Cygames
* DeNA
* The Pokémon Company

| Former|

* Genius Sonority
* Left Field Productions
* Marigul Management
* Ambrella
* Noise
* Param
* Rare
* Silicon Knights

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