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All the other major game studios are dying and Nintendo is taking care of their employees. Just goes to show that focusing on making great games, being protecti

All the other major game studios are dying and Nintendo is taking care of their employees. Just goes to show that focusing on making great games, being protective of golden goose IP, and making unique hardware rather than just trying to push prettier pixels is a winning strategy.

jagged-chisel 3mo ago
The other studios’ investors are winning just fine. That’s all that matters to them.
10xDev 3mo ago
This is putting Nintendo on a pedestal. Major Japanese studios in general are consistently publishing great games and increasing hiring count / raising salaries. Switch 2 is also essentially just a spec bump from switch 1 which came out in 2017. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/atlus-to-increase-salaries-and-reduce-fixed-overtime https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/atlus-to-increase-sal... https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sega-is-raising-japanese-employees-salaries-again-three-years-after-its-previous-increase/ https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sega-is-raising-jap... https://gameworldobserver.com/2024/03/06/capcom-salary-raise-japanese-employees-graduate-hires https://gameworldobserver.com/2024/03/06/capcom-salary-raise... https://automaton-media.com/en/news/sonys-game-division-announces-record-high-starting-salary-increases-in-japan/ https://automaton-media.com/en/news/sonys-game-division-anno...
- CuriouslyC 3mo ago
  I don't think it's unfair to say that Nintendo has some of the highest quality games on average, and probably the biggest cache of top tier IP of any studio on earth. The only studio that rivaled them was Blizzard IMO, and that got corrupted and has fallen to capitalism.
boogieknite 3mo ago
this is a puff piece. the raise was in April 2023
- sokoloff 3mo ago
  The story seems mixed; you are correct that the specifically 10% raise was back in 2023, but they also implemented additional raises in April of 2026, though not the specific 10% that was tweeted/widely reported.

jagged-chisel 3mo ago

The other studios’ investors are winning just fine. That’s all that matters to them.

10xDev 3mo ago

This is putting Nintendo on a pedestal. Major Japanese studios in general are consistently publishing great games and increasing hiring count / raising salaries. Switch 2 is also essentially just a spec bump from switch 1 which came out in 2017. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/atlus-to-increase-salaries-and-reduce-fixed-overtime https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/atlus-to-increase-sal... https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sega-is-raising-japanese-employees-salaries-again-three-years-after-its-previous-increase/ https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sega-is-raising-jap... https://gameworldobserver.com/2024/03/06/capcom-salary-raise-japanese-employees-graduate-hires https://gameworldobserver.com/2024/03/06/capcom-salary-raise... https://automaton-media.com/en/news/sonys-game-division-announces-record-high-starting-salary-increases-in-japan/ https://automaton-media.com/en/news/sonys-game-division-anno...

CuriouslyC 3mo ago
I don't think it's unfair to say that Nintendo has some of the highest quality games on average, and probably the biggest cache of top tier IP of any studio on earth. The only studio that rivaled them was Blizzard IMO, and that got corrupted and has fallen to capitalism.

boogieknite 3mo ago

this is a puff piece. the raise was in April 2023

sokoloff 3mo ago
The story seems mixed; you are correct that the specifically 10% raise was back in 2023, but they also implemented additional raises in April of 2026, though not the specific 10% that was tweeted/widely reported.