That is, in fact, why blizzard just laid off 800 people- they were from underperforming sections of the business or, iirc, business they wanted to get out of.
"Underperforming sections"? Customer Support rep which gave it his all got fired. Due to such people getting fired there's going to be a gap between community and company. How can that possibly be an "underperforming section"?
Because it takes a ton of people to offer support on video games. If you have millions of monthly players then you need a lot of employees to manage the community.
Re:Overpaid CEOs 2019
by blattimwind on Friday February 22, 2019 @06:36PM
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> Nintendo manufactures and ships millions of hardware units
I'd expect Nintento to have some ODM/CM like Foxconn deal with all that.
There are far, far more effecient video game studios/publishers out there.
Nintendo manufactures and ships millions of hardware units in addition to producing/publishing games and they have fewer employees.