NDcube explained

NDcube Co., Ltd.
Native Name:株式会社エヌディーキューブ
Native Name Lang:ja
Romanized Name:Kabushiki gaisha Enudīkyūbu
Type:Subsidiary
Industry:Video games
Genre:Video game development
Founded: in Tokyo, Japan
Hq Location:Saint Luke's Tower 46F, 8-1 Akashi-chō
Hq Location City:Chūō-ku, Tokyo
Hq Location Country:Japan
Num Locations:2 studios
Num Locations Year:2020
Products:Games
Num Employees:120
Num Employees Year:2024
Footnotes:[1] [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 the 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! scope="col"
TitlePlatform(s)
2001 Game Boy Advance
EZ-Talk Shokyuuhen series
Dokodemo Taikyoku Yakuman Advance
2002 Card Party
Pool EdgeGameCube
2003 Tube Slider
2010 Wii PartyWii
2011
2012 Mario Party 9
2013 Wii Party UWii U
Nintendo 3DS
2015 Mario Party 10Wii U
2016 Nintendo 3DS
2017
Android
iOS
2018 Super Mario PartyNintendo Switch
2020
2021Mario Party Superstars
2023Everybody 1-2-Switch!
2024Super Mario Party Jamboree

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2018-01-11. COMPANY. 2020-06-29. エヌディーキューブ株式会社. ja.
  2. Web site: 2010-08-30. Company profile. https://web.archive.org/web/20100830223131/http://www2.ndcube.co.jp/company/index.html. dead. August 30, 2010. 2020-06-29.
  3. Web site: August 22, 2000 . Nd Cube flatline . . January 28, 2010.
  4. Web site: Pearson . Dan . ND Cube now officially a subsidiary of Nintendo . Gamesindustry . 9 January 2021.
  5. Web site: NE . Brian . Latest listing of Nintendo subsidiaries and affiliated companies . Nintendo Everything . 9 January 2021.
  6. Web site: 2018-01-11 . COMPANY . 2023-10-30 . エヌディーキューブ株式会社 . ja.
  7. Web site: Hudson's Ashes: A Tale of Nd Cube's Party Past - Feature. Nintendo World Report.
  8. Web site: COMPANY. January 11, 2018.