Nintendo has sold 994.3 million games worldwide.
The first series of consoles nintendo launched in 1977 with Color TV-Game.
Nintendo Switch has notably recorded more sales compared to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
Recently Nintendo announced that it will increase the salary of its employees by 10 percent, this news has come as a surprise since we are currently living in an era of layoffs in the industry technology because it has become difficult to pay the salary of the workers.
Big companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, Philips, Salesforce among others, they have seen the need to cut staff, in order to reduce costs, before this Nintendo has become an example to follow for rewarding its employees in the best way.
nintendo on the market
Nintendo is a multinational company software and electronic products, is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan and was founded in the year 1889 as a small Japanese company that mainly produced handmade playing cards, this company handles various sectors such as video games and mobile devices. Obviously, most of Nintendo’s income is generated through the sales of its video games, one of its best-selling consoles and longed for by consumers has been the Nintendo 64. Later it innovated until it launched “Wii U” either nintendoswitch which was introduced in 2017 and has sold more than 100 million units.
It is well known that Nintendo It is one of the favorites in the marketThe reason? mario bros It has been his forte to position himself, since each game with this character has sold like hot cakes, the best seller so far is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with 48.41 million sales, it is also super smash bros ultimate with an average of 29.53 million sales.
Nintendo switches it has registered noticeably more sales compared to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
According to historical sales of video game consoles, Nintendo registers three devices among which are Nintendo DS, Game Boy and Nintendo Switch. Coming to its competition, on PlayStation the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 4 stand out, while the Xbox 360 is the only Xbox-branded device to make its way into the top ten.
Nintendo intends to increase the salary of its employees by 10%
Nintendo has recognized the effort of its employees, for which it has decided to compensate them with a 10 percent salary increase, this after it released its financial results that have not been what was planned.
Nintendo presented the financial results of the last nine months that cover from April to December 2022, for which it has been revealed that Nintendo Switch reaches 122.5 million consoles sold, and 994.3 million games have already been sold in everyone. However, these have not been the desired results, since software sales have been reduced significantly, since it is 4 percent less than last year, the same happens with consoles since 21.3 percent less were sold. than in the same period of the previous year. This, in turn, brought as a consequence that their net profits fell by 5.8 percent, with this their console sales forecasts were also reduced, being 18 million instead of 19 and in terms of games, they would be 205 million instead 2010 for the full fiscal year ending March 31.
It should be noted that the 10 percent wage increase will only apply to workers at Nintendo’s Japanese headquarters. This important decision to raise wages was announced by the president of Nintendo shuntaro furukawaaccording to a report of the portal Reuters.
💸 As recently shared by the Japanese newspaper Japan Times, Shuntaro Furukawa, president of the company, would have also taken the opportunity to announce a 10% salary increase to all employees of the Japanese branch of Nintendo. pic.twitter.com/um7ZTSmy3H
— Behind the Games (@BehindTGames) February 7, 2023
This initiative has been an excellent motivation for Nintendo manage to promote and preserve the effort of your workers, as this will also help them feel more committed to their work. Normally before this, companies tend to behave more demanding to obtain the desired results; however the Japanese company has set a better example.