Company:NDcube
 Logo since October 2010 | |
 NDCube's Sapporo head office in Daido Life Sapporo Building | |
Native name | 株式会社エヌディーキューブ |
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Romanized name | Kabushiki gaisha Enudīkyūbu |
| Type | Kabushiki gaisha |
| Industry | Video games |
| Genre | Video game development |
| Founded | March 1, 2000 in Tokyo, Japan |
| Headquarters | Saint Luke's Tower 46F, 8-1 Akashi-chō, Chūō-ku, Tokyo , Japan |
Number of locations | 2 studios[lower-alpha 1] (2020) |
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| Products | Games |
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Number of employees | 132 (2022) |
| Parent | Nintendo (99%) (since 2023) |
| Website | www |
| 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
| Year | Title | Platform(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | F-Zero | 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 | |
| 2012 | Mario Party 9 | |
| 2013 | Wii Party U | Wii U |
| Mario Party | Nintendo 3DS | |
| 2015 | Mario Party 10 | Wii U |
| Animal Crossing[lower-alpha 3] | ||
| 2016 | Mario Party | Nintendo 3DS |
| 2017 | Mario Party | |
| Animal Crossing[lower-alpha 3] | Android | |
| iOS | ||
| 2018 | Super Mario Party | Nintendo Switch |
| 2020 | Clubhouse Games | |
| 2021 | Mario Party Superstars | |
| 2023 | Everybody 1-2-Switch![lower-alpha 3] |
Notes
References
- ↑ "COMPANY" (in ja). 2018-01-11. https://www.ndcube.co.jp/company.
- ↑ "Company profile". 2010-08-30. http://www2.ndcube.co.jp:80/company/index.html.
- ↑ "Nd Cube flatline". IGN. August 22, 2000. http://cube.ign.com/articles/080/080452p1.html.
- ↑ Pearson, Dan. "ND Cube now officially a subsidiary of Nintendo". https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2010-08-26-nd-cube-now-officially-a-subsidiary-of-nintendo.
- ↑ NE, Brian. "Latest listing of Nintendo subsidiaries and affiliated companies". https://nintendoeverything.com/latest-listing-of-nintendo-subsidiaries-and-affiliated-companies/.
- ↑ "COMPANY" (in ja). 2018-01-11. https://www.ndcube.co.jp/company.
- ↑ "Hudson's Ashes: A Tale of Nd Cube's Party Past - Feature". http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/35784/hudsons-ashes-a-tale-of-nd-cubes-party-past.
- ↑ "COMPANY". January 11, 2018. https://www.ndcube.co.jp/company.
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