[/caption]This statistic came as a surprise to me. According to Financial Times, "the programmers of Super Mario Galaxy will generate more profit this year then the average Goldman Sachs banker has ever managed." The average Goldman Sachs employee generates about $1.2 million, each employee at Google about $626,000.
Nintendo employs about 3,000 people - most of which work in game development and R&D. The interesting thing about this is Nintendo actually outsources alot of the production, but has the producers of Nintendo overlook the projects. The results of their profits comes from the volume of sales Nintendo has received from the Nintendo DS and the Wii.
Pretty amazing stuff.
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