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 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.
In the years after Mario Party 8s 2007 release, many employees from Hudson Soft migrated to Nd Cube, including former Hudson Soft president Hidetoshi Endo, who became president of Nd Cube around 2009.
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.
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 game.
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.
In 2024, NDcube rebranded to Nintendo Cube.
Games + List of video games developed by Nintendo Cube Year Title Platform(s) 2001 F-Zero: Maximum VelocityGame Boy Advance EZ-Talk Shokyuuhen series Dokodemo Taikyoku Yakuman Advance 2002 Card Party GameCube 2003 Tube Slider 2010 Wii PartyWii 2011 Wii Play: Motion 2012 Mario Party 9 2013 Wii Party UWii U Mario Party: Island TourNintendo 3DS 2015 Mario Party 10Wii U Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival 2016 Mario Party: Star RushNintendo 3DS 2017 Mario Party: The Top 100 Animal Crossing: Pocket CampAndroid, iOS 2018 Super Mario PartyNintendo Switch 2020 Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics 2021 Mario Party Superstars 2023 Everybody 1-2-Switch! 2024 Super Mario Party Jamboree Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp CompleteAndroid, iOS2025 Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome TourNintendo Switch 2 Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV
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