Nintendo Cube

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Nintendo Cube Co., Ltd.
Native name
ニンテンドーキューブ株式会社
Kabushiki gaisha Nintendōkyūbu
FormerlyNd Cube (2000–2012)
NDcube (2012–2024)
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryVideo games
FoundedMarch 1, 2000; 26 years ago (2000-03-01) in Tokyo, Japan
HeadquartersAgriSquare 12F,
Shibuya, Tokyo
,
Japan
Number of locations
2 studios[a] (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
ProductsGames
Brands
Number of employees
120 (2024)
ParentNintendo[b]
Websitenintendo-cube.co.jp
Footnotes / references
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Nintendo Cube Co., Ltd.,[c] formerly known as Nd Cube and later NDcube, is a Japanese video game developer and subsidiary of Nintendo, headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo with an additional office in Sapporo. They are best known as the developers of the Mario Party series since Mario Party 9 when they took over the series from the original developer Hudson Soft.

History

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The company was founded on March 1, 2000, as Nd Cube, 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 the years after Mario Party 8's 2007 release, many employees from Hudson Soft migrated to Nd Cube[4] including former Hudson Soft president Hidetoshi Endo who became president of Nd Cube around 2009.[5]

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.[6][7][8]

In 2012, Nd Cube rebranded to NDcube. In the same year, the company released Mario Party 9 for the Wii — the company's first Mario Party.[9][10]

In 2019, the director of the Mario Party series from Mario Party 6 to Super Mario Party, Shuichiro Nishiya, replaced Hidetoshi Endo as the company's president. Endo had served as president of NDcube for almost ten years.[11][5]

In 2024, NDcube rebranded to Nintendo Cube.[12]

Games

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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
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[d]
2016 Mario Party: Star Rush Nintendo 3DS
2017 Mario Party: The Top 100
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp[d] Android, iOS
2018 Super Mario Party Nintendo Switch
2020 Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics
2021 Mario Party Superstars
2023 Everybody 1-2-Switch![d]
2024 Super Mario Party Jamboree
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete Android, iOS
2025 Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour[d][13] Nintendo Switch 2
Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV

Notes

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  1. ^ Sapporo Head Office and Tokyo Head Office
  2. ^ 2000-2010: 78%
    2010-2015: 96%
    2015-2023: 97%
    2023-present: 99%
  3. ^ Japanese: ニンテンドーキューブ株式会社, Hepburn: NintendōKyūbu Kabushiki Gaisha
  4. ^ a b c d Co-developed with Nintendo EPD

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