Nintendo Cube should not be confused with GameCube.
| Nintendo Cube Co., Ltd. | |
| Native Name: | ニンテンドーキューブ株式会社 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Romanized Name: | Kabushiki gaisha Nintendōkyūbu |
| Former Name: | NDcube (2000-2024) |
| Type: | Subsidiary |
| Industry: | Video games |
| 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] |
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.
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 his Hudson Soft days, Shuichiro Nishiya, became the company's president of the company 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]
| Title | Platform(s) | |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 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 | ||
| 2012 | Mario Party 9 | |
| 2013 | Wii Party U | Wii U |
| Nintendo 3DS | ||
| 2015 | Mario Party 10 | Wii U |
| 2016 | Nintendo 3DS | |
| 2017 | ||
| Android, iOS | ||
| 2018 | Super Mario Party | Nintendo Switch |
| 2020 | ||
| 2021 | Mario Party Superstars | |
| 2023 | Everybody 1-2-Switch! | |
| 2024 | Super Mario Party Jamboree |