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Nintendo boss to halve salary after profits plunge
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/nintendo/10603977/Nintendo-president-to-halve-pay-after-profits-plunge.html
This is interesting. A wage cut for five months due to Nintendo's business not doing well. I wonder if this could catch on with other boards and executives.
No profit, less pay.
This is interesting. A wage cut for five months due to Nintendo's business not doing well. I wonder if this could catch on with other boards and executives.
No profit, less pay.
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an alternative view could be that the Japanese have more honour in their failure to lead a company to a decent profit margin…..
whereas the rest of the capitalist world would simply take the money and run around blaming people for failure
That's, actually been the secret of their success, they have always gone for playability rather than photo realistic imaging.
The Wii was a revelation when it came out.
There's only,so much Mario you can churn out though.
Logically yes, but, somehow, every Super Mario game they churn out is a masterpiece of its genre - the level of invention is staggering - the latest one 'Super Mario 3D World' took 'Game of the Year' on this site...if you consider that an accolade!
It's the same for their Zelda series.
The problem Nintendo have is that they are so slow releasing games (this may be the trade-off for the quality). I bought my Wii U quite soon after its UK release, along with New Super Mario Bros Wii U. Since then, I've added Pikmin 3, Zelda Wind Waker and Super Mario 3D World.
So three games worth buying in a year...even tho' the quality is there (and boy is it there!), it's not much to incentivise folk to invest in the platform.
Regards,
Cypher
Memories of joining a queue at 7am when my son was younger, only to find that when we got into the shop at 9.15 they had sold out!