I'm impressed. Nintendo pres takes a 50% pay cut for 3DS.

[brunoafh]

This is why I love the Japanese. They take responsibility for their actions, and are willing to take the repercussions. They also have great respect. Now if America could be like this....

I am a Japanophile, but c'mon dude. Don't be that guy.

Also, I call BS on this entire thing.

[isiolia]

This is why I love the Japanese. They take responsibility for their actions, and are willing to take the repercussions. They also have great respect. Now if America could be like this....

I am a Japanophile, but c'mon dude. Don't be that guy.

Also, I call BS on this entire thing.

It's a publicity move to be sure. What I wonder is if they shifted monetary wages to stocks or something as a motivation to do well. Steve Jobs famously make $1/year, but afaik that's more a technicality than all he really gets from Apple.

[Flake]

Lol, of course this is publicity. But this is also publicity done right - how often does ANY company come out and say 'we were wrong and we are going to fix our mistake?'.

[The Last Horseman]

Well, fine. I thought this was truly take responsibility, but if it's publicity I now hate Japan and everything related to it. /extreme

[Breetai]

This is why I love the Japanese. They take responsibility for their actions, and are willing to take the repercussions. They also have great respect. Now if America could be like this....

I'm really not trying to be mean to you, but... after living in Japan for years, I can say with confidence that everything you just said is a common myth about Japan. Yes, some of these things are ingrained into their culture in a specific visible way (put on a good show!), but I can list you hundreds of both historical and personal examples where, at best, Japanese are mearly human like the rest of us.

Still, it is great to see outstanding people like Miyamoto do what he is doing. But, the point is that he is doing that out of the goodness of his heart. Yes, Japanese culture can explain part of it, but you also have people in other countries doing similar things. Mario Lemieux, a very famous and great hockey player, came out of retirement to rejoin his team a number of years ago. He could have demanded one of the top salaries, but instead he choose to take a very average NHL salary.

So, good on people like that, but it is not limited to Japan!

[emwearz]

This is why I love the Japanese. They take responsibility for their actions, and are willing to take the repercussions.

You should pick up a history book.

[Flake]

This is why I love the Japanese. They take responsibility for their actions, and are willing to take the repercussions.

You should pick up a history book.

Yeah, maybe one of the more recent history books approved by the Japanese Ministry of Education.

[Breetai]

This is why I love the Japanese. They take responsibility for their actions, and are willing to take the repercussions.

You should pick up a history book.

Yeah, there is a bit of controvery with this... but the majority of it is from the Japanese historical revisionists (you know, those upstanding examples of Japanese who are willing to lead their country into taking responsibility for their actions and take the repercussions).

Funny how this thread has degenerationed into this, but that's the beauty of the internet!

[The Last Horseman]

Lay off. All ya'll have made me think of is that I should hate them like my grandpa. Got eyes with even a slight angle and your a dirty Jap that needs to die, and many other things I'm not going to repeat. I thought that maybe I could sound nice for once but meh.

[ZenLogikos]

This is why I love the Japanese. They take responsibility for their actions, and are willing to take the repercussions. They also have great respect. Now if America could be like this....

I'm really not trying to be mean to you, but... after living in Japan for years, I can say with confidence that everything you just said is a common myth about Japan. Yes, some of these things are ingrained into their culture in a specific visible way (put on a good show!), but I can list you hundreds of both historical and personal examples where, at best, Japanese are mearly human like the rest of us.

Yeah - see the recent nuclear disaster at Fukushima. Officials initially downplayed the situation, lying to the public.

Still, it is great to see outstanding people like Miyamoto do what he is doing. But, the point is that he is doing that out of the goodness of his heart. Yes, Japanese culture can explain part of it, but you also have people in other countries doing similar things. Mario Lemieux, a very famous and great hockey player, came out of retirement to rejoin his team a number of years ago. He could have demanded one of the top salaries, but instead he choose to take a very average NHL salary.

So, good on people like that, but it is not limited to Japan!

I love seeing praise for Lemieux, as I consider him the most talented hockey player in history, but your comparison is not quite accurate, as Lemieux owned the team when he came out of retirement.