NDcube Co., Ltd.
Native name
株式会社エヌディーキューブ
Kabushiki gaisha Enudīkyūbu
TypeKabushiki gaisha
IndustryVideo games
GenreVideo game development
FoundedMarch 1, 2000 (2000-03-01) in Tokyo, Japan
HeadquartersSaint Luke's Tower 46F, 8-1 Akashi-chō,
Chūō-ku, Tokyo
,
Japan
Number of locations
2 studios[lower-alpha 1] (2020)
Key people
  • President & CEO
  • Shuichiro Nishiya
  • Executive Vice President
  • Kenji Kikuchi
  • Directors
  • Kazuhiko Nonaka
  • Keisuke Terasaki (Nintendo)
  • Former President
  • Hidetoshi Endo
ProductsGames
Brands
Number of employees
132 (2022)
ParentNintendo (99%) (since 2023)
Websitewww.ndcube.co.jp
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

NDcube Co., Ltd.[lower-alpha 2] is a Japanese video game developer and a subsidiary of Nintendo based in Japan with offices in Tokyo and Sapporo. The majority 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.

History

The company was founded on March 1, 2000, as a joint venture between Nintendo and the biggest advertising firm in Japan called Dentsu, hence the "ND" in the name. Nintendo had at the time 78% of the shares of the company, 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 Mario Party series since his Hudson Soft days, Shuichiro Nishiya, became president of the company in the place of Hidetoshi Endo, who was the president of NDcube for almost ten years.[8]

Games

List of video games developed by NDcube
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[lower-alpha 3]
2016 Mario Party: Star Rush Nintendo 3DS
2017 Mario Party: The Top 100
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp[lower-alpha 3] Android
iOS
2018 Super Mario Party Nintendo Switch
2020 Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics
2021 Mario Party Superstars
2023 Everybody 1-2-Switch![lower-alpha 3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Sapporo Head Office and Tokyo Head Office
  2. ↑ Japanese: エヌディーキューブ株式会社, Hepburn: Kabushiki gaisha Enudīkyūbu
  3. 1 2 3 Co-developed with Nintendo EPD

References

  1. ↑ "COMPANY". エヌディーキューブ株式会社 (in Japanese). January 11, 2018. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Company profile". August 30, 2010. Archived from the original on August 30, 2010. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Nd Cube flatline". IGN. August 22, 2000. Retrieved January 28, 2010.
  4. ↑ Pearson, Dan. "ND Cube now officially a subsidiary of Nintendo". Gamesindustry. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  5. ↑ NE, Brian. "Latest listing of Nintendo subsidiaries and affiliated companies". Nintendo Everything. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  6. ↑ "COMPANY". エヌディーキューブ株式会社 (in Japanese). January 11, 2018. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Hudson's Ashes: A Tale of Nd Cube's Party Past - Feature". Nintendo World Report.
  8. ↑ "COMPANY". January 11, 2018.
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