The top tier game developers/directors... how much are they making? Only a small handful of them have achieved true 'celebrity' status, but still... they're famous enough to make public appearences and draw crowds for autographs. How much money are these guys pulling down? I don't even know what should be considered a lot, for their line of work. 100,000? 1 million?
How much money do guys like Miyamoto and Kojima make?
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Warm Machine
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A lead designer/producer at EA makes $100,000. Software Engineers make a fair bit more, nearing 200,000.
I'd assume Miyamoto was probably pulling down around $500,000 before he gained his new position.
I'd assume Miyamoto was probably pulling down around $500,000 before he gained his new position.
Smiles and Cries
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GDJustin said:
I remember Miyamoto saying he did not make much money
What brought all this up in my head was reading that Miyamoto has a family with a couple kids... I was just wondering what kind of a place he came home to after work every day, and how he lived. I mean, guys like him are famous, but not famous enough for their personal life to be public knowledge (like hollywood celebrities, for example). I'm just curious about his house, or car... *shrug*
Warm Machine
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Guys like Yu Suzuki own Ferraris so they can't be doing too bad.
Also realize that the income structure of a country like Japan is NOTHING like that of the US, specifically as regards CEO/VP compensation etc., so all salaries will be lowered accordingly as well. Miyamoto and Kojima no doubt earn beaucoup bucks, perhaps on the order of $500-750K, but if it were an American company doing the same volume of business, they'd likely make $3M+.
For comparison's sake, the average CEO in Japan (across publicly-traded corporations) earns roughly $400K or so, while the average American CEO earns $11M (1999 data; the disparity has only increased since then). Accordingly, the entire wage structure of companies and their employees is shifted downward for Japanese and other foreign companies relative to US companies (except, of course, for those at the bottom, where nearly every other industrialized nation's "minimum wage" and average worker compensation absolutely dwarfs ours-- go figure). Thus ends my Gaming Forum editorializing for the day <Loki scurries back to OT>
EDIT: The average US CEO earns roughly 490 times as much as the average worker in their company, while in Japan, they "only" earn 20-25 times as much; in Britain, it's "only" 35 times as much. Something to chew on.
For comparison's sake, the average CEO in Japan (across publicly-traded corporations) earns roughly $400K or so, while the average American CEO earns $11M (1999 data; the disparity has only increased since then). Accordingly, the entire wage structure of companies and their employees is shifted downward for Japanese and other foreign companies relative to US companies (except, of course, for those at the bottom, where nearly every other industrialized nation's "minimum wage" and average worker compensation absolutely dwarfs ours-- go figure). Thus ends my Gaming Forum editorializing for the day <Loki scurries back to OT>
EDIT: The average US CEO earns roughly 490 times as much as the average worker in their company, while in Japan, they "only" earn 20-25 times as much; in Britain, it's "only" 35 times as much. Something to chew on.
nitewulf said:
Apparently not much, as, even when their companies tank in the quarterlies, they get obscene raises. If they leave their company much worse off than when they joined it, they still get golden parachutes in excess of $10M in many instances. Go figure.
Anyway, this is decidedly OT. My point in posting all that wasn't to opine on the sad state of American wages, but rather to show how, as Americans, our conception of whether or not these guys make "a lot of money" is necessarily skewed based on our own wage/salary structure, which is clearly top-heavy.
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Also didn't Polyphony Digital's president Yamauchi recently get a Ford GT? I don't know if he actually bought one himself or if Ford themselves gave it to him (it's the cover car for GT4)
Maybe there should be a 'Cribs'-type show on major video game designers or something =P
Maybe there should be a 'Cribs'-type show on major video game designers or something =P
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He rides a bicycle to work every day and lives really close to Nintendo.GDJustin said:
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I know for a fact Miyamoto drives a family mini-van.
jorge13130
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I know Miyamoto is the one that makes more money in the world of Videogames, but I dont know how much
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That's just considered part of the R&D costs for racing games.Warm Machine said:
Didn't that stop once Nintendo got their new cube building a few years back?Mr_Furious said:
The last time I saw politeness in these parts... well there was... hmm....skip said:
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