Private company

Nintendo Cube

Logo: Nintendo Cube, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Video game developer

Nintendo Cube Co., Ltd., 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.2 It employed 180 people.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Mar 1, 2000Founded1
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Photo: RJD, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Nintendo Cube Co., Ltd., 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.2

Corporate structure

Nintendo Cube is part of a group headed by Nintendo. 42 entities, 8 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

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 (original) 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 8's 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.

From Wikipedia’s article on Nintendo Cube, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

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Timeline

  1. Mar 1, 2000Founded Founded1

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