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GameLook report/On July 6, Beijing time, Nintendo released its 2023 fiscal year report as of the end of March this year. However, compared with the relatively flat financial figures, more people in the industry pay attention to the income data of a group of executives announced with the financial report.
According to Nintendo’s fiscal year 2023 financial report, its CEO Shuntaro Furukawa’s income is 362 million yen (equivalent to RMB 18.2 million), and Shigeru Miyamoto’s annual income is 292 million yen (equivalent to RMB 14.68 million). ).
Nintendo disclosed the income of five executives this time. Although the income of the remaining three has exceeded 100 million yen, compared with other 3A companies, this level is not high. For example, some netizens listed the income rankings of executives from Nintendo, Activision, Sega and other companies.
“You know, according to a report by the market intelligence company Games One, the CEO with the highest salary in the game industry will earn almost 100 times that of the director of Nintendo in 2020. At that time, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick won the championship with US$154 million, followed by EA’s Andrew Wilson earned $34.7 million.”
In fact, if converted into U.S. dollars, Nintendo CEO Shuntaro Furukawa’s annual income is only $2.51 million, and Shigeru Miyamoto’s is only $2.02 million, most of which are performance bonuses.
Even compared with Japanese game companies, the annual salary of Nintendo executives is not high. For example, Yosuke Matsuda, the former president of Square Enix, earned US$4 million in 2020, and Sega’s then CEO and president earned about US$3 million in 2020.
Of course, compared with the annual income of CEOs of European and American companies, Asian counterparts are obviously not in the same order of magnitude. However, in 2020, due to the high comprehensive income of Bobby Kotick, its shareholders voted against the management compensation plan and expressed their concerns to the board of directors many times.
In addition to executive salaries, what gamers are most concerned about is Nintendo’s next-generation console, which is the rumored Nintendo Switch 2. After all, both Microsoft and Sony have launched new-generation consoles since the release of the last-generation Switch, and it has been six years since the release of the Switch.
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Although it is still far away from the official announcement, rumors related to Nintendo Switch 2 have already begun to ferment. There are even rumors that the Switch 2 development kit has arrived in Spain and equipped with related studios. It has entered the final round of testing before the official display. stage.
Officially, despite ambiguous answers to questions about the Switch 2, Nintendo has confirmed that Nintendo Accounts will be transitioned to the Switch 2, meaning the new console is likely to have backward compatibility. In addition, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot also hinted at the existence of Switch 2 when discussing the sequel to the Switch exclusive game “Mario + Rabbit”.
Foreign media believe that Nintendo will release the Switch 2 in the next 12 months, which is close to the release time of Sony’s PS5 Pro. However, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa has made it clear that there is no plan to release any hardware within the new fiscal year, which means that new hardware will have to wait until at least March 2024.
In terms of performance, there are rumors that the Switch 2 will be 10 times more powerful than the previous generation console. The latest news comes from Armin Zerza, CFO of Activision Blizzard, who mentioned in an email sent to Nintendo that Activision “can also be compatible with the next generation of Switch”, and its performance is closer to the GEN 8 platform, which is Xbox One and PS4 consoles.
However, compared to the processor performance of Microsoft and Sony’s previous generation hosts, which ranged from 1.3 TFLOPs (teraflops per second) to 1.8 TFLOPs, industry rumors say that Switch 2 may use the NVIDIA Tegra T239 processor with a processing performance of 4 TFLOPs. , the low-profile version is Tegra 234.
If the rumors are accurate, Nintendo’s new console could be around 10 times more powerful than the original Switch.
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