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Develop, a European game developer blog, is reporting that nintendo is the world's most profitable company per capita, meaning that each Nintendo employee generates more profit than any single employee working for another company. Each Nintendo staffer apparently makes 1.6 million of profit per year. Pretty impressive.

Nintendo has some advantages though. As any "gaijin" that has attempted to secure work in Japan can tell you, you get paid less in Japan than you do in America for similar work- so Nintendo has the benefit of less expensive labor. That said, the main reason for this success is still the obvious: The outrageous success of Wii and DS.

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