Nintendo Cube

Nintendo Cube Co., Ltd.
	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
Romanized name	Kabushiki gaisha Nintendōkyūbu
Formerly	NDcube (2000-2024)
Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video games
Founded	March 1, 2000; 25 years ago in Tokyo, Japan
Headquarters	Saint Luke's Tower 46F, 8-1 Akashi-chō, Chūō-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Number of locations	2 studios (2020)
Key people	President & CEO; Shūichirō Nishiya; Executive Vice President; Kenji Kikuchi; Directors; Kazuhiko Nonaka; Toyokazu Nonaka (Nintendo); Auditor & Supervisory Board Member; Keisuke Kondo (Nintendo); Former President & Chairman; Hidetoshi Endo;
Products	Games
Brands	Mario Party series; Wii series;
Number of employees	120 (2024)
Parent	Nintendo (99%) (since 2023)
Website	nintendo-cube.co.jp
	Footnotes / references;

Not to be confused with GameCube.

Nintendo Cube Co., Ltd.,^{[lower-alpha 1]} 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.

History[]

The 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 its Hudson Soft days, Shuichiro Nishiya, became the company's president 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[]

List of video games developed by Nintendo Cube
Year	Title	Platform(s)
2001	F-Zero: Maximum Velocity	Game Boy Advance
	EZ-Talk Shokyuuhen series
	Dokodemo Taikyoku Yakuman Advance
2002	Card Party
2002	Pool Edge	GameCube
2003	Tube Slider	GameCube
2010	Wii Party	Wii
2011	Wii Play: Motion
2012	Mario Party 9
2013	Wii Party U	Wii U
2013	Mario Party: Island Tour	Nintendo 3DS
2015	Mario Party 10	Wii U
2015	Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival^{[n 2]}	Wii U
2016	Mario Party: Star Rush	Nintendo 3DS
2017	Mario Party: The Top 100	Nintendo 3DS
2017	Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp^{[n 2]}	Android, iOS
2018	Super Mario Party	Nintendo Switch
2020	Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics
2021	Mario Party Superstars
2023	Everybody 1-2-Switch!^{[n 2]}
2024	Super Mario Party Jamboree
2024	Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete	Android, iOS

Notes[]

↑ Japanese: ニンテンドーキューブ株式会社, Hepburn: NintendōKyūbu Kabushiki Gaisha

References[]

↑ "COMPANY". エヌディーキューブ株式会社 . 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2020-06-29. {{cite web}}:
↑ "Company profile". 2010-08-30. Archived from the original on August 30, 2010. Retrieved 2020-06-29. {{cite web}}:
↑ "Nd Cube flatline". IGN. August 22, 2000. Retrieved January 28, 2010. {{cite web}}:
↑ Pearson, Dan (August 26, 2010). "ND Cube now officially a subsidiary of Nintendo". Gamesindustry. Retrieved 9 January 2021. {{cite web}}:
↑ NE, Brian (June 29, 2015). "Latest listing of Nintendo subsidiaries and affiliated companies". Nintendo Everything. Retrieved 9 January 2021. {{cite web}}:
↑ "COMPANY". エヌディーキューブ株式会社 . 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2023-10-30. {{cite web}}:
↑ "Hudson's Ashes: A Tale of Nd Cube's Party Past - Feature". Nintendo World Report. {{cite web}}:
↑ "COMPANY". January 11, 2018. {{cite web}}:
↑ Scullion, Tom (September 2, 2024). "Mario Party developer NDCube has changed its name". Video Games Chronicle. Retrieved September 2, 2024. {{cite web}}:

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Handheld	Advance • DS • Island Tour • Star Rush • The Top 100

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Subsidiaries	1-Up Studio • iQue • Monolith Soft • Next Level Games • Nintendo Cube • Nintendo European Research & Development (NERD) • Nintendo Pictures • Nintendo Software Technology (NST) • Retro Studios • Shiver Entertainment
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[4] Japanese: ニンテンドーキューブ株式会社, Hepburn: NintendōKyūbu Kabushiki Gaisha

[Company_profile-2] "COMPANY". エヌディーキューブ株式会社 . 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2020-06-29. {{cite web}}:

[3] "Company profile". 2010-08-30. Archived from the original on August 30, 2010. Retrieved 2020-06-29. {{cite web}}:

[NdCube_Profile-5] "Nd Cube flatline". IGN. August 22, 2000. Retrieved January 28, 2010. {{cite web}}:

[6] Pearson, Dan (August 26, 2010). "ND Cube now officially a subsidiary of Nintendo". Gamesindustry. Retrieved 9 January 2021. {{cite web}}:

[7] NE, Brian (June 29, 2015). "Latest listing of Nintendo subsidiaries and affiliated companies". Nintendo Everything. Retrieved 9 January 2021. {{cite web}}:

[8] "COMPANY". エヌディーキューブ株式会社 . 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2023-10-30. {{cite web}}:

[9] "Hudson's Ashes: A Tale of Nd Cube's Party Past - Feature". Nintendo World Report. {{cite web}}:

[10] "COMPANY". January 11, 2018. {{cite web}}:

[11] Scullion, Tom (September 2, 2024). "Mario Party developer NDCube has changed its name". Video Games Chronicle. Retrieved September 2, 2024. {{cite web}}:

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