Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman (or Google)

Nintendo are nuts. The guys at Nintendo in charge of a project I worked on never seemed to stop working, despite their night time falling into our time zone's work hours. It's pretty sad to hear that for their extended 7-day work week they're getting $90k on average.

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Post by TCL15 » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 9:07 AM UTC

mattmaroon wrote: post #3

Maybe the guys from Zoho can explain to us why that means they're never going to really care about portable gaming or something.

very good reference to old post. i like

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Post by nazgulnarsil » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 9:13 AM UTC

nintendo stock is hard to buy.

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Post by sridharvembu » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 9:58 AM UTC

mattmaroon wrote: post #3

Maybe the guys from Zoho can explain to us why that means they're never going to really care about portable gaming or something.

Actually, it would explain very well why Nintendo would never get into, say, DVD players, HDTVs and such.

And Nintendo's per-capita profitability also explains why Microsoft is so desperate to break into video games, except that they just haven't been able to replicate the magic so far.

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Post by adrianwaj » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 10:34 AM UTC

Key takeaway: "Nintendo is able to make so much money with so few people because it relies on outsourcing."

I met a fellow who once employed over 30 people for his building construction company. Then he became one person, with the rest outsourced. Maybe he is doing better than Nintendo if one measures success as the article does.

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Post by 13ren » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 11:18 AM UTC

Maybe now, but just before the DS (and Wii), they weren't looking very healthy financially.

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Post by sachinag » Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 12:07 PM UTC

sridharvembu wrote: post #7

mattmaroon wrote: post #3

Maybe the guys from Zoho can explain to us why that means they're never going to really care about portable gaming or something.

Actually, it would explain very well why Nintendo would never get into, say, DVD players, HDTVs and such. And Nintendo's per-capita profitability also explains why Microsoft is so desperate to break into video games, except that they just haven't been able to replicate the magic so far.

Actually, they did get into DVD players, with the Japan-only Q: http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/reviewArt.cfm?artid=3886 and the Wii is supposedly going to add DVD capabilities (for a couple years now, though): http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2006/10/31/japan-getting-wi...