Comment on Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios

RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sometimes there is an option for a company or people to so good things with good intentions, good things with bad intentions, bad things with good intentions and just plain bad shit.

  Not everything Nintendo does is bad nor is it good. But when doing a good thing, it can be just that. A good thing.

  Yes, their community management sucks. Their trigger happiness with anything legal is awful. But they can do also do good things.

  Life is not black and white.

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Their other good thing in my eyes is not overextending.

    They have been profitable for a long time, and built up a reserve. Shitty CEOs would demand they use those reserves to branch out into a VR division. Make a room-sized toy, a massively online Second Life space, a chain of theme parks. Anything to show they’re hiring, growing, and that the ROI will triple every few years.

    Obviously, had they done any of that, they’d be doing a lot more firing now because they’d have no reserves once all those plans go belly up.

    So, it’s likely helpful their culture is quartered in Japan where the long term health of the company is treasured and short term gains are not worshipped so much.

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