They barely scraped by in 2024 with $1.5 billion in (net) profits, and people expect them to be able to continue to be able to pay their 7,724 employees without raising the price of their games?
I mean, if Nintendo tried to give every employee (including janitors and customer service) a paltry $175,000 annual salary increase, they'd barely have (net) profitted $200,000,000 last year.
People need to grow up, no business can be expected to survive like that!
That's actually a lot lower then I expected it to be
if Nintendo tried to give every employee (including janitors and customer service) a paltry $175,000 annual salary increase, they'd barely have (net) profitted $200,000,000 last year.
I get what your saying but $200 million wouldn't be a lot for reinvestment into developing new games...they work on these for years with teams of dozens of developers at minimum...now I'm not saying I understand their development system or payment schedule but $200 mil would disappear real quick
For reference Tears if the Kingdom was in production for 6 years despite being able to reuse parts of Breath if the Wild code...and there were 300 of them
300 salaries x theoretical $175k is already $52.5 million...and they put out multiple games a year so multiple teams working before even considering the overhead of running the company that following year
$200m mil doesn't go as far these days on this scale :/
I get what youre saying and youre right but the guy youre replying to is referencing profit which included reductions for operation costs and payroll, and said giving huge salary raises to all the people doing that work still left them with 200mil profit for the year. the 200mil in that example wouldn't be going into the costs youre talking about and would be saved for the rougher parts
again, youre right, if their revenue somehow craters the following year
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