NDcube

NDcube Co., Ltd.[lower-alpha 2] is a Japanese video game developer based in Japan with offices in Tokyo and Sapporo. NDcube is a fully owned Nintendo subsidiary. The company was founded on March 1, 2000, as a joint venture between Nintendo and advertising firm Dentsu, hence the "ND" in the name. In 2010, Nintendo decided to buy out 98% of the company's shares.[3][4]

NDcube Co., Ltd.
Native name
株式会社エヌディーキューブ
Kabushiki gaisha Enudīkyūbu
Kabushiki gaisha
IndustryVideo games
GenreVideo game development
FoundedMarch 1, 2000 (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[lower-alpha 1] (2020)
Key people
  • President and CEO
  • Shuichiro Nishiya
  • Directors
  • Kenji Kikuchi
  • Atsushi Ikeda
  • Keisuke Terasaki (Nintendo)
  • Former President
  • Hidetoshi Endo
ProductsGameography
Brands
ParentNintendo (97%) (since 2010)
Websitewww.ndcube.co.jp
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

History

In 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.[5]

Since 2019, the director of Wii Party and Mario Party series, Shuichiro Nishiya, became president of the company in the place of Hidetoshi Endo, who was the president of NDcube for almost ten years.[6]

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[lower-alpha 3] Wii U
2016 Mario Party: Star Rush Nintendo 3DS
2017 Mario Party: The Top 100 Nintendo 3DS
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp[lower-alpha 3] Android
iOS
2018 Super Mario Party Nintendo Switch
2020 Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics 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. 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. Whitehead, Thomas (March 25, 2015). "Interview: Nintendo and Nd Cube on Bowser, amiibo and the Pure Luck of the Dice in Mario Party 10". Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on June 16, 2018. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
  5. "Hudson's Ashes: A Tale of Nd Cube's Party Past - Feature". Nintendo World Report.
  6. "COMPANY". January 11, 2018.
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