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Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by Anon1096 »

epsteingpt wrote: post #25

I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents (3 yen - source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japanese-snack-company-apolog... ) The country for better or worse seems to be frozen in time - salaries have not caught up with the heady levels of SV (or even Europe) but neither have rents or prices for common go…

> In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents

No, there really isn't. You're looking at one company that "apologized" as a marketing play but outside of that prices have been increasing with no fanfare for years now. The annual inflation rate has been 2-3% for the past 4 years. It's a lot less interesting to write a news article about that though.

https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/cpi/158c.html

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by ThrowawayR2 »

dartharva wrote: post #15

Great thing about Nintendo is unlike its competitors, they don't go around chasing new tech and business models. All their focus is concentrated on the playing experience - interfacing, fun value, guilt-free hooks etc. In many ways they are more a classic toymaker than a tech firm. This is the reason why they have such a strong following, their product at least is not run by MBAs chasing every chance at a point incre…

Don't forget their patent trolling, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43059215 and general IP related bullying.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by bluGill »

tyingq wrote: post #7
high_na_euv wrote: post #4

I thought it is common in big companies to raise salaries by x% every year?

When it was, it was typically some amount less than inflation. 1-2%

Every few years I get a 10% raise when they realize those less than inflation raises are enough that they are losing people who places that pay better. (sometime it was me who left, but the cycle repeats at the new place)

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by CM30 »

leetrout wrote: post #3
hootz wrote: post #2

Always a great thing to hear. Well paid employees, good results, and I'm definitely loving their Switch 2 releases already.

Off topic: what are you enjoying lately? Most of the games I have bought work on switch 1 but the screen and controls on the switch 2 are better. I regret buying caravan sandwitch because it's so hard to see with my aging eyes but it is nice to play it anywhere. Always curious to hear what others enjoy about it to help me have less regret in my $600 investment in Mario kart

Donkey Kong Bananza is probably my Switch 2 game of choice. Like it may not be marketed as such, but it's probably somewhere on par with Super Mario Odyssey in terms of game design and mechanics, and has the craziest ending sequence I've ever seen in a video game. It is a really solid 3D platformer, and does to Donkey Kong what Super Mario 64 did to Super Mario Bros/World.

The DLC is really fun too, though whether it's worth buying is almost entirely dependent on how much you get into Emerald Rush. Personally I found that mode incredibly addictive for the longest time, though it's definitely not for everyone.

As a general rule though, the Switch 2's library is kinda niche right now though. What games/DLC are worth it heavily depends on your taste in games.

Cozy/sandbox game? Pokopia could be a good choice.

Fan of the Zelda series in general? The upgrades for BotW and TotK are nice, as is Age of Imprisonment.

Prefer Kirby? Air Riders and the Forgotten Land upgrade are a good bet. More of a Mario fan? Well, there aren't as many options there outside of Mario Kart, though the Wonder upgrade has been pretty well received, and Mario Tennis Fever is a decent game.

Generally you'll find one or two niche spinoffs you'll really get into, though nothing on the level of a big new 3D Mario/Zelda/Pokemon/whatever game.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by [deleted] »

Anon1096 wrote: post #31
epsteingpt wrote: post #25

I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents (3 yen - source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japanese-snack-company-apolog... ) The country for better or worse seems to be frozen in time - salaries have not caught up with the heady levels of SV (or even Europe) but neither have rents or prices for common go…

> In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents No, there really isn't. You're looking at one company that "apologized" as a marketing play but outside of that prices have been increasing with no fanfare for years now. The annual inflation rate has been 2-3% for the past 4 years. It's a lot less interesting to write a news article about that though. https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/cpi/158c.h…

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Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by mcphage »

leetrout wrote: post #3
hootz wrote: post #2

Always a great thing to hear. Well paid employees, good results, and I'm definitely loving their Switch 2 releases already.

Off topic: what are you enjoying lately? Most of the games I have bought work on switch 1 but the screen and controls on the switch 2 are better. I regret buying caravan sandwitch because it's so hard to see with my aging eyes but it is nice to play it anywhere. Always curious to hear what others enjoy about it to help me have less regret in my $600 investment in Mario kart

> Off topic: what are you enjoying lately?

I've poured tons of hours into Blue Prince, which is a great puzzle game. Pokopia is fun and charming if you like Pokemon or Minecraft. I've recently been playing Öoo which is a short but sweet "metroidbrania". I played through both Strange Horticulture and Strange Antiquities recently, and liked them both. I played the demo of "Adventure of Elliot: Millennium Tales", and liked the gameplay enough I'll probably pick up the full game, even though the dialog is atrocious. (The voice acting is good, at least).

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by KptMarchewa »

high_na_euv wrote: post #4

I thought it is common in big companies to raise salaries by x% every year?

Individual employees. But the base rate (or band) stays the same, which is not what I'm reading here. So you might travel inside the band from low-paid to high-paid, while it stays the same.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by toomuchtodo »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #26
high_na_euv wrote: post #4

I thought it is common in big companies to raise salaries by x% every year?

Not in all / not anymore. I'm in Canada a 300k IT/consulting company and rated top performer several years in a row. No raises last couple of years, before that it was 0.49 and 1% respectively. This year there was zero salary increase for anybody in our branch.

Any year you're not getting a raise and there is inflation, you're taking a pay cut. You may know this, sharing as a PSA for those who might not.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by mcphage »

tekla wrote: post #28

It mostly seems that Nintendo is trying very hard to prevent any concern over their stock price dropping like a rock https://www.shacknews.com/article/149817/nintendo-ntdoy-pres...

Stockholders seem concerned that Nintendo isn't throwing away enough of their seed corn, like all the other major game publishers are.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by missedthecue »

epsteingpt wrote: post #25

I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents (3 yen - source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japanese-snack-company-apolog... ) The country for better or worse seems to be frozen in time - salaries have not caught up with the heady levels of SV (or even Europe) but neither have rents or prices for common go…

In Japan, inflation adjusted wages are down 2% over the last 20 years. In the same time frame in the US, they're up 20% and even for the bottom quartile, earnings are up 15%.
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