Nintendo Platform Technology Development is the new hardware division of Nintendo established in 2015 that merged Nintendo Integrated Research & Development with the Nintendo System Development, consolidating both software and hardware development for Nintendo platforms into a single division. Ko Shiota serves as the division's General Manager and leads hardware development while Takeshi Shimada and Kiyoshi Mizuki are the Deputy General Managers, with the former leading middleware and software infrastructure and the latter leading system application and Nintendo Network services.