WESTERN employees thrive on bonuses

Yeah maybe I should of edited that part out of the article.

However I think the amount of money Nintendo employees make is well deserved especially considering how successful the company is.

Nintendo really does print money :)

As ShadowSnake mentioned, I was merely pointing out that the two companies are quite different in size and therefore you can't directly compare compension levels as easily as they were.

normally WESTERNERS are payed more bonus and thrive on it

he could have demanded more  depeding on how he performs.alot of bonuses are depended on the conttract he has signed and the revenues company made

the SONY shareholders wouldn't have signed him because of his high salary but because westnerners get the job done and are strict which was what SONY needed at that time

Sorry, but there isn't much information in that article to make a good comparison.

they were but the expenses of developing CELL,BLU-RAY were already made.

they couldn't just drop it and say it was too expensive so we didn't implement it

also everybody knew that SONY was gonna have a loss no matter what but thwen it is a future and people are seeing now from this year,its  profit

9m? that would last me a life time or 2

That's a funny coincidence. Miyamoto's paycheque is about the same size as the profit that the average Nintendo employee generates for the company:

http://www.smartcompany.com.au/information-technology/nintendo-has-the-most-valuable-employees-in-the-world.html

Except they're not that similar at all...

You're comparing Nintendo who does Video Game Hardware/Software and merchandise related to them; ONE GENERAL MARKET.

vs.

Sony who does all of the above Music, Film, Consumer Electronics, PCs/Laptops, Computer Software, Phones, Financial/Banking Services, IT services, and Industrial Components such as semiconductors.

Comparing the salaries of a singular market leader vs a conglomerate is silly.  Unless you believe Stringer is as involved in the gaming segment as Iwata is.  Which is laughable. 

the article did not make a single comparison to any other CEO in japan.

anyway, i was talking internationally. He might be one of the highest paid CEO's of a japanese based company, as the article stated, but that's not what I meant when I mentioned his salary was quite fair compared to a lot of other CEO's (around the world). Here in Canada, there's a lot of CEO's who make more than he does, even in much smaller companies.