Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman (or Google)

Re: Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman (or... by 13ren on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @07:18AM (#306909)

Maybe now, but just before the DS (and Wii), they weren't looking very healthy financially.

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Re: Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman (or... by wynand on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @02:58PM (#307375)

They weren't doing too badly but it is worth noting that their revenue grew by 89.8% in 2007 (http://www.i4u.com/article17075.html).

This is in part due to the unexpected roaring success of the Wii. Such a feat will be difficult to pull off in the future (although Nintendo is remarkably left-field thinking and might surprise us).

So before the Wii and DS, I bet that the profit-per-employee was probably less than that of a Goldman employee.

I would be really interested in a 10 or 20 year profit-per-employee comparison between Goldman and Nintendo.

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Re: Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman (or... by scott_s on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @09:38AM (#306993)

I don't think this is true. From what I know, even during the GameCube years, they were turning healthy profits.

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Re: Nintendo makes more profit per employee than Goldman (or... by chaostheory on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @11:08AM (#307070)

you're right. even when Nintendo was a dismal 3rd in the last console war with Gamecube, they were still making very healthy profits with the console. still dominating the handheld market helps too.

Before Wii, I could wrong, but I think they had about 3 billion in cash reserves.

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