Hello i am new here, and not very good in english.

The thing I want to ask you all is how big nintendo is. I mean how many staff members there are. And what about ea, activision, square enix...

thanks: Joni

First: welcome

Second: I remember it was said that they employ about 6,000. Now whether that's just Nintendo and everything that's purely internal (all their marketing, R&D, testers, localizers, as well as EAD and NST Studios), or includes everyone wholly owned by them (like Retro Studios, HAL Labs, Monolith, Game Freak, etc.) i'm not sure

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i don't know but 6.000 seems way to much i thought it was about 4.500 somesing....

there was news that 10% of electronics arts staff are lay off.  so electronic arts had 10 000 employments. Thats almost double the size of nintendo... grazy world...

It's about 4,700 not including things like Retro and Intelligent Systems.
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According to wikipedia it was 3768 in 2008. This seems right according to other articles such as this one:

http://www.mlgpro.com/content/page/135934/Nintendo-Employees-Generate-2-5-Million-Each

NJ5 is right. I put a 4 instead of 3.
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I had heard somewhere around 4000. Don't quote me, though.

As an addendum to NJ5's post, I'd say check wikipedia for these things. Always check wikipedia first. They probably have it in your native tongue, even. Wouldn't that just be peachy?