NDcube

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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; 21 years ago (2000-03-01) in Tokyo, Japan
HeadquartersDaido Life Sapporo Building 11F, Kita 3 Jonishi 3-1,
Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido
,
Japan
Number of locations
2 studios[a] (2020)
Key people
  • President and CEO
  • Shuichiro Nishiya
  • Directors
  • Kenji Kikuchi
  • Atsushi Ikeda
  • Keisuke Terasaki (Nintendo)
  • Former President
  • Hidetoshi Endo
ProductsGameography
Brands
Number of employees
119
ParentNintendo (97%) (since 2010)
Websitewww.ndcube.co.jp
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

NDcube Co., Ltd.[b] is a Japanese video game developer and a wholly owned 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 and since 2015, to 97% of the shares.[4][5]

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.[6]

Since 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.[7]

Gameography[]

List of video games developed by NDcube
Year Title Platform(s)
2001 F-Zero: Maximum Velocity Game Boy Advance
EZ-Talk Shokyuuhen series Game Boy Advance
Dokodemo Taikyoku Yakuman Advance Game Boy Advance
2002 Card Party Game Boy Advance
Pool Edge GameCube
2003 Tube Slider GameCube
2010 Wii Party Wii
2011 Wii Play: Motion Wii
2012 Mario Party 9 Wii
2013 Wii Party U Wii U
Mario Party: Island Tour Nintendo 3DS
2015 Mario Party 10 Wii U
Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival[c] Wii U
2016 Mario Party: Star Rush Nintendo 3DS
2017 Mario Party: The Top 100 Nintendo 3DS
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp[c] Android
iOS
2018 Super Mario Party Nintendo Switch
2020 Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics Nintendo Switch
2021 Mario Party Superstars Nintendo Switch

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. ^ Jump up to: a b 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. ^ "Hudson's Ashes: A Tale of Nd Cube's Party Past - Feature". Nintendo World Report.
  7. ^ "COMPANY". January 11, 2018.

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