NDcube

NDcube Co., Ltd.[lower-alpha 1] 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.[2][3]

NDcube Co., Ltd.
Native name
エヌディーキューブ株式会社
Subsidiary
IndustryVideo games
FoundedMarch 1, 2000 (2000-03-01)
HeadquartersTokyo, Japan
Key people
Shuichiro Nishiya (president)
Products
Number of employees
118[1]
ParentNintendo (97%) (2010–present)
Websitendcube.co.jp

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.[4]

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.[5]

List of games developed
YearTitlePlatform(s)
2001F-Zero: Maximum VelocityGame Boy Advance
Dokodemo Taikyoku Yakuman Advance
2002Card Party
Pool EdgeGameCube
2003Tube Slider
2010Wii PartyWii
2011Wii Play: Motion
2012Mario Party 9
2013Wii Party UWii U
Mario Party: Island TourNintendo 3DS
2015Mario Party 10Wii U
Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival[lower-alpha 2]
2016Mario Party: Star RushNintendo 3DS
2017Mario Party: The Top 100
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp[lower-alpha 2]Android, iOS
2018Super Mario PartyNintendo Switch
2020Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics

Notes
  1. Japanese: エヌディーキューブ株式会社
  2. Co-developed with Nintendo EPD

References
  1. https://doda.jp/DodaFront/View/JobSearchDetail.action?jid=3003535299&argument=MC76WbSa&dmai=a5d27fec63bdae&cid=001006005005002&utm_id=001006005005002
  2. "Nd Cube flatline". IGN. August 22, 2000. Retrieved January 28, 2010.
  3. 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.
  4. http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/35784/hudsons-ashes-a-tale-of-nd-cubes-party-past
  5. https://www.ndcube.co.jp/company


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