MANAGEMENT DEVICE, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a management device and the like capable of improving entertainment properties and the like.SOLUTION: An extraction section 11 extracts other portable game machines that are present near a portable game machine with which an object is associated. A selection section 12 selects from the extracted other portable game machines, a portable game machine that satisfies prescribed transfer conditions, as a transfer destination. An update section 13 updates the association of the object from the portable game machine with which the object is associated, to the selected transfer-destination portable game machine. Namely, the object is transferred from the transfer-source portable game machine to the transfer-destination portable game machine. When predetermined notification conditions are satisfied, a notification section 14 notifies a portable game machine that a holder of the object uses, of notification information relating to the portable game machine with which the object is associated.