my problem with nintendo

[H.E.R.]

Ka-pi96 said:

H.E.R. said:

Nintendo's consoles have and still are profitable, something they simply can't make up by having their games go multiplatform. You do realize the massive layoffs Nintendo would have if they turned into a third-party developer? And with less teams means less games. And with less games means even more bitching about how Nintendo isn't developing anything new. Also with less teams means the quality of their games can dip as well.

That's just... wrong.

Sure they would have to layoff people, but only on the hardware side, since they wouldn't have any hardware to make anymore. All the software people could stay and as long as the software is still profitable they would stay and maybe even increase in size.

When a company downsizes, you cut everywhere you can for investors, even your most profitable divisions starting with cutting temps and dead weight and then either asking the higher paid employees to take a paycut or replace them in house. Restructuring actually costs companies lots of money, people. You simply can't cut an entire division altogether, and in this case a profitable one, and say "That's that!".