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theviolenttomboy · 8 months

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Something all the layoffs made me think, another legitimately sad and fucked up thing about the video game industry is at this point, Nintendo's probably the only company left that still has almost all of their OG devs from the 80s and 90s, their version of Disney's Nine Old Men. Almost all the veteran staff from other older, still existing companies, even the Japanese ones like Capcom and Sega, are long gone, either retired or went indie to wildly differing degrees of success. And all the newer companies keep shutting down or get absorbed before they even get a chance.

#just me rambling #video games #something off of a twitter thread had me thinking #“iwata's a saint for cutting his paycheck”#“yeah but japan can't do mass layoffs”#“yeah but no one's leaving nintendo either”#“remember konami?”#(holy hell the shit konami did to kojima is still legendarily evil)#generally japan can't do layoffs BUT #there are loopholes if they really want to get rid of you specifically #also a lot of those devs left cause they hated the way they were treated #square enix is also surprisingly pretty good #Some left (and Nintendo got a good chunk of them)#but there's still a decent amount left #now if only the ceo wasn't such a tool

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