Nintendo Cube Co., Ltd.,[b] formerly NDcube, is a Japanese video game developer and a subsidiary of Nintendo based in Japan with offices in Tokyo and Sapporo. Most of the company is made up of former employees of Hudson Soft. They have also been the developers of the Mario Party series since Mario Party 9 onwards.
 Logo since September 2024 | |
 Nintendo Cube's Sapporo head office in Daido Life Sapporo Building | |
Native name | ニンテンドーキューブ株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Kabushiki gaisha Nintendōkyūbu |
| Formerly | NDcube (2000-2024) |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | March 1, 2000 in Tokyo, Japan |
| Headquarters | Saint Luke's Tower 46F, 8-1 Akashi-chō, , Japan |
Number of locations | 2 studios[a] (2020) |
Key people |
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| Products | Games |
| Brands | |
Number of employees | 120 (2024) |
| Parent | Nintendo (99%) (since 2023) |
| Website | nintendo-cube |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
History
editThe company was founded on March 1, 2000, as NDcube, as a joint venture between Nintendo and the biggest advertising firm in Japan called Dentsu, hence the "ND" (Nintendo-Dentsu) in the name. Nintendo had 78% of the shares of the company at the time, while 13.3% of the shares were owned by Dentsu and the rest of the 8.7% were owned by other shareholders.[3]
In 2010, Nintendo decided to buy out the company's shares from Dentsu and the other shareholders, being then the major shareholder on the company, with its changing from 78% to 96% initially, to 97% in 2015, and since 2023, to 99% of the shares.[4][5][6]
Since 2010, many employees from Hudson Soft migrated to a restructured NDcube, which is also head by Hidetoshi Endo, a former president at Hudson Soft that assumed NDcube at the end of the 2000s.[7]
In 2019, the director of the Mario Party series since his Hudson Soft days, Shuichiro Nishiya, became the company's president of the company in the place of Hidetoshi Endo, who was the president of NDcube for almost ten years.[8]
In 2024, NDcube was renamed to Nintendo Cube.[9]
Games
edit| Year | Title | Platform(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | F-Zero: Maximum Velocity | Game Boy Advance |
| EZ-Talk Shokyuuhen series | ||
| Dokodemo Taikyoku Yakuman Advance | ||
| 2002 | Card Party | |
| Pool Edge | GameCube | |
| 2003 | Tube Slider | |
| 2010 | Wii Party | Wii |
| 2011 | Wii Play: Motion | |
| 2012 | Mario Party 9 | |
| 2013 | Wii Party U | Wii U |
| Mario Party: Island Tour | Nintendo 3DS | |
| 2015 | Mario Party 10 | Wii U |
| Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival[c] | ||
| 2016 | Mario Party: Star Rush | Nintendo 3DS |
| 2017 | Mario Party: The Top 100 | |
| Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp[c] | Android, iOS | |
| 2018 | Super Mario Party | Nintendo Switch |
| 2020 | Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics | |
| 2021 | Mario Party Superstars | |
| 2023 | Everybody 1-2-Switch![c] | |
| 2024 | Super Mario Party Jamboree | |
| Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete | Android, iOS |
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ "COMPANY". エヌディーキューブ株式会社 (in Japanese). January 11, 2018. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
- ^ "Company profile". August 30, 2010. Archived from the original on August 30, 2010. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
- ^ "Nd Cube flatline". IGN. August 22, 2000. Retrieved January 28, 2010.
- ^ Pearson, Dan (August 26, 2010). "ND Cube now officially a subsidiary of Nintendo". Gamesindustry. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
- ^ NE, Brian (June 29, 2015). "Latest listing of Nintendo subsidiaries and affiliated companies". Nintendo Everything. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
- ^ "COMPANY". エヌディーキューブ株式会社 (in Japanese). January 11, 2018. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
- ^ "Hudson's Ashes: A Tale of Nd Cube's Party Past - Feature". Nintendo World Report.
- ^ "COMPANY". January 11, 2018.
- ^ Scullion, Tom (September 2, 2024). "Mario Party developer NDCube has changed its name". Video Games Chronicle. Retrieved September 2, 2024.