Bank of Nintendo? All those gold coins Mario kept collecting

[jillithian]

From my Daily Briefing by SME

Nintendo makes more profit per employee than investment bank.

The Financial Times (9/16, Harding) reports that "the average employee at Japanese video games maker Nintendo is on track to earn more for their company this year than the average Goldman Sachs employee did in 2007, the investment bank's best ever year." The video games maker "also makes more per employee than Internet group Google." The Times notes that, "for an electronics company to make more per employee than a high-powered investment bank is exceptional, and the figures highlight how profitable Nintendo," which has "less than 3,000 permanent employees, has become after the success of its Wii and DS consoles."