scottie said:
As always then, economics teaches us to focus on the here and now, and let the future take care of itself :P
If you create a game like Wii Fit that makes you millions upon millions of dollars, then that means you can hire new employees to allow you to make more games (Nintendo was one of very few companies to actually increase their staff size during this recent recession - the only other one I can think of is Apple, and that's because they're targeting the Iphone at a whole new blue ocean). The money can also be spent to fund development of risky or niche games. |
Nintendo has expanded, but even there they are conservative, they don't want to expand too fast and destroy what makes Nintendo, Nintendo, their corporate culture, there is still a limit on how many game they can make in a given year