crispy4000 Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 Nintendo Announces 10 Percent Pay Raise For Devs Despite Lower Profits KOTAKU.COM The Tears of the Kingdom publisher promises more pay following record inflation Quote “It’s important for our long-term growth to secure our workforce,” Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said during the company’s earnings report today. ...The raises were also announced during an earnings presentation that otherwise included disappointing news. Switch sales fell even though the recently released Pokémon Scarlet and Violet games were the fastest-selling ever in the company’s history, already reaching 20 million. As a result, Nintendo actually announced it will make less money during its current fiscal year than it had previously planned. Although it’s not clear if Nintendo’s 10 percent salary hike will apply to workers outside of Japan, some contract staff at Nintendo of America in Redmond, Washington said they recently saw substantial pay increases after months of pressing management on the issue. One tester, responsible for checking bugs on some of the company’s biggest releases, told Kotaku their hourly rate jumped from roughly $16 an hour in 2022 to over $20 in 2023. The announcement of raises then comes in stark contrast to recent layoffs and cost-cutting measures at Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Take-Two, and others. Roughly 40 developers at Ubisoft’s Paris studio recently went on strike for a day to protest the lack of raises to keep up with the cost of living crisis in France. Pay isn’t everything though, and Nintendo of America’s reliance on temporary contract staff rather than converting them to full-time means many workers there still don’t get proper benefits or job security. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 They need it now that the Xbox is gonna be more expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameDadGrant Posted February 7, 2023 Share Posted February 7, 2023 Cool that they did that despite their projected profits are looking to be less than originally expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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