After a decade of creating low-profile products, subsidiary Nd Cube is now wholly owned by Nintendo. And along with the company, the platform holder now employs several key members of the Mario Party development team.
Founded as a joint venture between Nintendo and the advertising agency Dentsu, Nd Cube developed titled including F-Zero: Maximum Velocity and Tube Slider. A recent Iwata Asks revealed that Nintendo now holds a 96 percent stake in the company (via Siliconera).
In a roundabout way, Nintendo now employs several members of the former Mario Party team as well. The group opted to move on from Monegi following the release of Mario Party 8 and ended up at Nd Cube. Like that company, Monegi was created as a joint venture, though in this case it was with Hudson.
Nd Cube’s most recent project is Wii Party, which launched in Japan early last month. Given that games success — it sold some 230,000 units in its first week — and the fact that Nintendo now owns the company, it seems as if we can expect more Wii Party soon.
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