NDcube

NDcube
legal form	Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company)
founding	March 1, 2000
Seat	Chūō , Tokyo , Japan
management	Hidetoshi Endo
Website	www.ndcube.co.jp

NDcube KK ( Jap. エヌディーキューブ株式会社, Enudī Kyūbu Kabushiki Kaisha , Eng. NDcube Co., Ltd. ) is a subsidiary of the video game - Publishers Nintendo and a Japanese game developer based in Tokyo and Sapporo . NDcube achieved fame primarily through the development of Wii Party and Wii Party U as well as some Mario Party games.

history

The company was founded on March 1, 2000 between Nintendo and advertising company Dentsu . The main shareholders until 2010 were Nintendo with 18% and Dentsu with 8.7%. In 2010 Nintendo decided to buy 98% of the shares. The letters N and D in the name are made up of the first letters of the founding companies Nintendo and Dentsu .

Few games have been developed since NDcube was founded. The company mainly focuses on Japanese video games for the GameCube , Game Boy Advance , Nintendo DS , Wii , Nintendo 3DS , Wii U and Nintendo Switch

In April 2006, many employees moved to the company, for example to Nintendo and Square Enix . NDcube is led by Hidetoshi Endo, who was once the president of Hudson Soft .

Games

GameBoy Advance

F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (2001)
Dokodemo Taikyoku Yakuman Advance (2001, only published in Japan)
Card Party (2002, only published in Japan)

Nintendo GameCube

Pool Edge (2002, only published in Japan)
Tube Slider (2003, never released in Europe)

Nintendo Wii

Wii Party (2010)
Mario Party 9 (2012)

Nintendo 3DS

Nintendo Wii U

Nintendo Switch

Super Mario Party (2018)
51 Worldwide Games (2020)

Criticism of Mario party games

After Hudson Soft, which developed all the games in the Mario Party series up to and including Mario Party 8, was taken over by Konami , NDcube took over the development of the series. After they released Mario Party 9, Mario Party 10, Mario Party: Island Tour, Mario Party: Star Rush and Mario Party: The Top 100 , some players in the series developed a critical attitude towards NDcube. The reason for this was striking changes in the game mechanics compared to the games from Hudson Soft, which were controversial among the fans. NDcube has also received mixed reviews for this in the press. The newest Mario Party game, Super Mario Party, is now more based on the classic games.

Web links

Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

↑ Nd Cube flat line . In: N-Sider.com . April 18, 2006. Retrieved August 28, 2008.
↑ Nd Cube flat line . In: IGN.com . August 22, 2000. Retrieved August 22, 2000.
^ Nd Cube - Corporate Profile ( Japanese ) In: Nd Cube . Retrieved November 29, 2010.
↑ Developer of Wii Party U.Retrieved March 10, 2014
↑ [1] Retrieved June 30, 2018
↑ [2] Retrieved March 22nd
↑ [3] Retrieved March 22nd

[Flatline-1] Nd Cube flat line . In: N-Sider.com . April 18, 2006. Retrieved August 28, 2008.

[NdCube_Profile-2] Nd Cube flat line . In: IGN.com . August 22, 2000. Retrieved August 22, 2000.

[3] Nd Cube - Corporate Profile ( Japanese ) In: Nd Cube . Retrieved November 29, 2010.

[4] Developer of Wii Party U.Retrieved March 10, 2014

[5] [1] Retrieved June 30, 2018

[6] [2] Retrieved March 22nd

[7] [3] Retrieved March 22nd