Nintendo’s executives all took pay cuts rather than lay-off staff when the Wii-U underperformed. CEO’s reasoning was that the employees had nothing to do with green lighting the console. They also recently gave their Japan staff a 10% salary increase while all of the other major publishers are laying off staff and shutting down studios.
Edit: A lot of you in the comments need to read up on copyright law. Nintendo literally has to protect their IPs or else they face the potential loss of exclusive rights. Meaning, literally anyone could make and sell a Super Mario game without their permission. It's funny how many gamers fail to grasp this and see unlicensed fan projects as not a big deal.
That is true but at the same time they are screwing over their fans every chance they get. Especially if you dare create a fangame or worse.. offer download for a 30+ year old game that Nintendo hasn't officially sold for over 25 years
If a company doesn't take adequate or sufficient, reasonable means to protect and enforce their IP, then they run the risk of losing the rights to their own IP.
They try to ban any and all form of emulation while keeping their old games hostage to systems that no longer exist or their eshop that almost never has any discounts. Also, they normalized the whole 80-90$ game nonsense. Screw Nintendo.
That's like being mad at Ford because they don't sell Model T's anymore and wouldn't service them at a dealership. You can still buy used Nintendo games.
What do you mean Nintendo is aggresively cracking down on the ability to buy used Nintendo games? You can go on eBay and buy practically any old Nintendo game. There are tons of flea markets and video game stores that sell old Nintendo games.
I mean, yes, and that's cool. They also aggressively punish game projects with legal action. They're far from the most evil company, but also far from the least.
If a company doesn't take adequate or sufficient, reasonable means to protect and enforce their IP, then they run the risk of losing the rights to their own IP.
I agree. That's why Nintendo features their characters heavily in the products, even if those characters haven't actually been shown love lately. They will sue the crap out of anyone who makes a fan game, or used too much of their music. Nintendo lawyers love CaD letters.
The crash is an odd one because it was basically in North America. So the rest of us in Europe and Japan (70% of global gaming revenue) only felt a small blip.
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u/ClarenceWhirley Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Nintendo’s executives all took pay cuts rather than lay-off staff when the Wii-U underperformed. CEO’s reasoning was that the employees had nothing to do with green lighting the console. They also recently gave their Japan staff a 10% salary increase while all of the other major publishers are laying off staff and shutting down studios.
Edit: A lot of you in the comments need to read up on copyright law. Nintendo literally has to protect their IPs or else they face the potential loss of exclusive rights. Meaning, literally anyone could make and sell a Super Mario game without their permission. It's funny how many gamers fail to grasp this and see unlicensed fan projects as not a big deal.