Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development Division is the main game software development division at Nintendo Co. Ltd. Officially established on September 16 2015, the division is the result of merging Nintendo EAD and Nintendo SPD into a single unit.
Alongside the announcement of Tatsumi Kimishima succeeding the late Satoru Iwata as president of Nintendo on September 14 2015, the company also revealed a "large scale restructuring" that consolidates its internal development groups. Starting from September 16 2015, the Nintendo EAD and Nintendo SPD divisions are known as Nintendo EPD (Entertainment Planning & Development Division). After all the divisions were brought into a single building in Kyoto in summer of 2014, they have now been formally grouped under a single banner.