Nintendo makes $1.6million profit from each employee
 
Staggering stuff. The original FT story puts it best: “The programmers of Super Mario Galaxy will generate more profit this year than the average Goldman Sachs banker has ever managed.”
As Edge-Online has it, ”Nintendo employs less than 3,000 permanent staff, each of whom takes home an average annual salary of $90,900 a year.”
By contrast, Goldman Sachs, who had a record-breaking 2007, made $1.24 million per employee, whose pay averaged out at a significantly larger $660,000.
I can’t help but wish that Nintendo would put some of this to good use and invest in some fresh development talent to bolster Wii’s line-up, particularly when it comes to games more likely to appeal to its core audience. Some new IP perhaps? I mean, does Nintendo really need to be making that much?
Still, it’s number one so why try harder, eh?
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