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!
The saddest part about modern gaming is the developer companies are making huge profits but then they layoff the actual developers that made the game.
God forbid you share the profits with the people most responsible for them. No. We gotta give all that money to the CEO that keeps making bone-headed decisions.
Nintendo specifically is pretty famous for doing very few layoffs though. They prioritize long term talent retention way more than most game companies, especially in the west.
You're correct they don't do profit sharing though. And they are still a public company so they do prioritize profits and shareholder benefits in the form of dividends.
Japan expects loyalty from their employees and shockingly frequently actually shows loyalty back. Their work hour expectations are a nightmare, especially for people who want to have families, but they otherwise do treat their workers a lot better than the US does easily
I mean, in Japan a man can spend practically Zero time with his family and still be considered a good family guy, East Asian societies are kind of like that, even Hindus MENA and Latinos who work ridiculous hours still value spending time with their families in a way that's just alien to Asians
Not even defending how brutal the working hours can get, but it's a completely different culture
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