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Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[-] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 43 points 3 weeks ago

Nintendo are horrible to consumers but at least they understand the value of their staff. That's something I value more from a company. (depending on the extent of their anti-consumer practices, nintendo have definetly gone too far with their's)

[-] Broadfern@lemmy.world 39 points 3 weeks ago

TBF, even if they’re a shit company to their consumers it’s kind of funny for them to point out they still make boatloads of money while keeping employees since it makes others look bad.

“Efficiency” is smoke-blowing bull for the sake of putting a few more pennies in shareholder stocks. Stable profits are far more sustainable and better for the real economy (where real people spend real money) than infinite growth since having a regular paycheck allows people to continue buying things.

[-] Linktank@lemmy.today 25 points 3 weeks ago

Nobody cares nintendo, you're still an asshole.

[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

Japanese corporations overwork people to literal death, but at least you're not going to be laid off 2 months into a new job. Not as big of a flex as they think it is

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 11 points 3 weeks ago

Worker protections and their enforcement have improved in recent years, but things still aren't fully there yet. That said, the whole karoshi thing is getting less and less, which is good. The problem now is less in the big corps and more in the smaller businesses since they end up having less oversight. My company even requires I record hours at my other job (my own company) and submit them to make sure they and I are not in violation of labor law for hours worked.

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

You will never be laid off at a Japanese company.

They will just unassign you from tasks or reassign you to a boring menial task to make you resign.

That way they don't pay you severence and they pay way less for your unemployment insurance.

[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

They won’t put your name in the credits

[-] slimerancher@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

That's pretty nice. When everyone is laying off people by thousands, it's nice to see a company that provides stability to it's employees.

They of course aren't the only one, kudos to all such companies!

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

This is some weird virtue signalling considering all the other things Nintendo does.

[-] Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

Nintendo is more focused on closing down stuoos they don't own, for the audacity of having similar generic ideas pulled from the real world in their games.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Don't the Japanese have to stab themselves in the liver with a sword if they resign from one of their soul crushing 18 hour a day office jobs?

[-] Jomega@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Microsoft: Fuck you, you piece of shit. I'm firing every one of you motherfuckers so I can buy another 30 Ferrari's.

Nintendo: We are not going to do that.

Lemmy: Fuck you, Nintendo!

You guys need to learn to take W's where you can get them. It's exhausting not being able to enjoy good news because you're always angry about something.

[-] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

microsoft: we just fired entire studios that we bought recently. we are building a master collection of IPs to do nothing with other than passively profit off of them forever using game pass. part of this master plan is to cause large instability in the video game industry through aforementioned mass layoffs. also we are quite literally helping a genocide.

lemmy: oh. that’s kinda shitty but I liked oblivion remastered :)

nintendo: we made our game 80$

lemmy: if anyone even thinks about liking some of your stuff they should be burned at the stake.

obviously im exaggerating to make a point, and no if you ask I don’t like nintendo. fuck them. but I think the reaction here is a bit disproportionate. a company could do all the evil in the world but as long as they don’t touch the sacrosanct consumer, it’s all good in the eyes of a gamer!

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck both? but Microsoft harder?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 0 points 3 weeks ago

That's because Nintendo don't run a studio. It's a prison, where developers are protected from progress made by the outside world.

This is the only explanation for their online offerings.

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