How Much Money Does Shigeru Miyamoto Make?

[Ponchponcho]

Western CEOs should take a lesson, you want true innovation? You want landmark franchises? Your not going to find them lining your own pockets and keeping your employees in the poor house, all that money nintendo makes isn't just sitting under a big mattress, its being put in the hands of there employees who make their games.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

SIR Howard?

Sony's CEO is a knight?!

 

[John Funk]

I am actually surprised I have some love for Pirates, so long they keep torrenting they are denying those CEO's all the luxury.

CEOs, and the thousands of people they employ who all probably make much more reasonable salaries.

That's a bullshit justification that hurts the "little guy" far more than it does CEOs, and it boils my blood.

This is where you obviously think I am really serious that I want money to be taken away from those who worked on a product and shipped it. You assume that I have love for Pirates wheras in several posts I talked about how I converted heavy-duty pirates to actually legal consumers. Of course it's a bullshit justification, for me, it as well. It's merely the perspective of a Pirate who would jump to that conclusion right away.

CEO's have a reason for their salaries, because they worked their asses up there, regardless the public opinion.

Either way, I hope your blood is cooling down, honestly I admit sarcasm/jesting is hard to see through in posts but your reaction is less than stellar.

Apologies if you felt I was coming down hard on you. But reading up on the thread, it's hard to imagine that all the people expressing similar opinions are being similarly sarcastic.

 

[BboyTeddyBear]

Nintendo is eating everybody else's lunch.

that made me laugh

 

[pneuma08]

That is incredible. Where does all the money that Nintendo is making go? Is it distributed more evenly, or spent on R&D or something? They obviously have a vastly different setup if their CEO is making nearly two times his salary in "performance-based bonuses".

I feel like someone should be making a feature-length documentary about Shigeru Miamoto. He is obviously quite the character.

 

[thenamelessloser]

In The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely, the author discusses how according to social science experiments getting paid too much at once with a bonus may actually result with an inferior performance even if the person is putting in more hours of work. The same thing with social pressure though, basically the crux is that more stress and pressure may make one do WORSE when it comes to cognitive demanding tasks but better when it comes to more mechanical takes. Note, the author is NOT saying that CEOs and others shouldn't' be payed well just that they should maybe be paid in different ways in order to lessen the impact of a huge bonus that is imminent. I wonder if this could relate to the amount that the CEOs of video game companies get paid

 

[tkioz]

Frankly anyone who thinks they need to get paid over a million dollars a year needs to have their head examined, how much money do you actually need? When I hear about CEOs earning huge wages I want to be sick, the money should be spread around the entire company, a general may lead but with the cooks his army isn't getting far is it?

 

[Marmooset]

Hey, you didn't mention what the head of Microsoft makes!
Oh, wait.

 

[Cornish]

EA's CEO John Riccitiello, who made $9.85 million during the same year.

This makes me sad, they fired a bunch of people that year while he's raking in nearly TEN MILION?! I'd ask what's wrong with these people... but that would be wasted effort...

 

[Outlaw Torn]

That is incredible. Where does all the money that Nintendo is making go? Is it distributed more evenly, or spent on R&D or something? They obviously have a vastly different setup if their CEO is making nearly two times his salary in "performance-based bonuses".

I feel like someone should be making a feature-length documentary about Shigeru Miamoto. He is obviously quite the character.

Well if you look at Nintendo's recent history they have come out with more products that would have required plenty of cash input to develop etc. The Wii and 3DS probably weren't cheap, plus there have been about 80 different version of the DS since it came out. Sony might have the Sonii-mote coming out too, but it can't be all that different to the Wii-mote. And Microsoft just have an overpriced camera that someone else made.

 

[UberNoodle]

Yeah, and you really need 5 million dollars a year.

Well how else can they afford their nice cars, mansions, and private jets? That stuff doesn't pay for itself you know.

Pirates are costing these companies their livelyhood. No longer can they go on all expense paid trips to Hawaii, no longer can they use toilet paper rolls made out of money, no longer can they afford giant bonfires of money.

Pirates take it all away.

This has opened my eyes.

You have to feel sorry for them. That is a lot to lose. It's almost like slave labour!

 

[scotth266]

Apologies if you felt I was coming down hard on you. But reading up on the thread, it's hard to imagine that all the people expressing similar opinions are being similarly sarcastic.

The way people think about CEOs seems to come a lot from the way CEOs are brought up in the news: that is, when their companies have run into the latest FUBAR situation.

Nobody cares/even thinks about CEOs when they're making things work, and as such it is incomprehensible to the average person why CEOs earn millions when all they seem to do is waffle in front of the cameras about how their company is not at fault for the latest disaster.

In reality the job of a CEO is a lot harder than the media makes it look out to be. As a CEO, you have to make a lot of tough business decisions, some of which could make/cost people millions of dollars. The job of a CEO is a highly stressful/difficult one: hence the reason they get perks and such high salaries.

 

[microwaviblerabbit]

The Nintendo figures are surprising, especially when you factor in the performance bonuses. I would have thought that making THAT much money they would have personal gold mechs by now. I guess all the profits mainly go to R&D and paying wages. I am rather impressed.

However, I am interested to see how Nintendo America compares in salary structure: are they closer to their Japanese bosses or American counterparts?

 

[Macgyvercas]

When I saw the title of this topic, I was seized by a sudden, irrational fear that my boundless respect for Shigeru Miyamoto would be about to take a bit of a ding if it turned out he was raking it in hand over fist. On the contrary, the fact that he's earning a pittance (relative to his influence and output) is oddly reassuring- the man clearly does it for the art and because he loves games, not because he loves money. Hell, he's so synonymous with Nintendo that they'd give him a solid gold toilet if he demanded one, yet he doesn't. The man is an inspiration.

Same here. I have even greater respect for him than before.

Can we make him a god or something???

 

[The Singularity]

What the heck???? Blizzard we all know you have enough money to run your buildings on it by burning it if you wanted so why are you not paying your CEO more than that??

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

I like how Miyamoto turns down bigger salaries. It not about money to him, it's about making good games.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

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Anybody else thinks it is weird that Sega's CEO, who is not a console maker anymore, is making more then Nintendo's CEO and Miyamoto combined?