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potato_hamster on 07 March 2018
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Kai_Mao said:
potato_hamster said:

No. WIth a company like Nintendo, they have a staff and resources they're comfortable with, and it's incredibly unlikely the success of anything is going to have them hiring new people to increase capacity. They'll just stick with what they have.

They have billions in the bank they could spend doing pretty much anything they want. But they don't.

They are investing in other projects like theme parks, movies, mobile, toys/merchandise, concerts, etc. besides gaming. Some of these projects appear to cost pretty pennies (especially those theme parks). And I'm sure you have heard as someone within the gaming industry, but they have been hiring, even during the struggling Wii U/3DS days. When you expect them to lay off people when they lost money, they apparently didn't and Iwata took pay cuts. 

Let's not assume they don't necessarily invest enough. We don't know exactly how much they spend on their gaming projects and other avenues.

Yes, they have been diversifying which is, well, what it is. I'm not really sure how much these projects are costing Nintendo. it's entirely plausible they're actually just licensing their Name and IP to someone else who is investing into building and developing theme parks, toys, drink coasters, etc, and just making money off of all of these things with no financial risk, much like how Donald Trump didn't actually invest and build most of the buildings that bare his name, he just licensed the name to them.

But still, even with their regular hiring, there's no indication that they're actually increasing team sizes and taking on more projects. Big publishers like Nintendo, Sony, Activision, EA etc constantly have job openings for dozens, if not hundreds of positions. Even after layoffs. It might just mean they have gaps in their staff that they need filled in order to execute their current projects the way they would like to.

My entire point wasn't that they don't invest enough,but that they invest what they are comfortable with, and the success/failure of certain projects doesn't affect how much they invest, but rather, where they invest that money in the future. If Labo is an enormous success, Nintendo is not going to open a new studio with multiple new teams making Nintendo Labo products. They're just going to divert existing internal teams into making more Labo type stuff and push back other projects or cancel them all together.