14 DAY TRIAL // With so many good news surrounding Nintendo's Wii, you can only imagine how much the company and staff are making off the little white machine. But we're here today not to speak of how much each individual working for Nintendo is making, but how much the company gains from their efforts. Each and every one of them could be considered a treasure chest.
In an article originally posted by Forbes, strategy topics are being discussed and how Nintendo's President Satoru Iwata realized what had to be done in order to win. The PS2 and Xbox were battling it out when Iwata came up with the concept of remote control and whether everything said so far about the Wii is true or not, you can judge for yourselves, but one thing is for sure though: the man knew that by cramming more horsepower into the Wii, it would make it less accessible. So he had to make a huge compromise. One that eventually paid off:
"We decided that Nintendo was going to take another route - game expansion," says Iwata, seated on the edge of a leather chair, leaning over green tea in a three-piece suit, a strip of gray emerging along the part in his thick hair. He has an easy command of English but speaks through an interpreter, as the reporting site posts. "We are not competing against Sony or Microsoft. We are battling the indifference of people who have no interest in videogames."
Here comes Gamedaily.biz with the numbers, proving the upper mentioned facts about Nintendo's staff being a gold mine: "Judging by Nintendo's last fiscal year in which the company produced $8.26 billion in revenue, Fortune points out that each of Nintendo's 3,400 employees generates a staggering $2.5 million. How does that compare with other corporate juggernauts? Microsoft's employees generated $624,000 each last year, while Google's generated $994,000 each - still less than half of Nintendo's employees. On a profit scale, Nintendo's total income was almost $1.5 billion, or $442,000 per employee, last year, compared with Microsoft's $177,000 and Google's $288,000. It's astounding no matter how you look at it."
Still wonder why everywhere you look there is "Nintendo Wiins," "Nintendo Kicks Ass" and so on? It wouldn't hurt everyone else to admit now that they were wrong about Iwata and his "crazy" idea. And yes, I still think that the Wii isn't at all perfect, and that one of the worst things about it is that it simplifies complex games' control scheme, but can anyone argue with the upper mentioned figures? Not likely, so congrads to the Nintendo team.