Iwata took a pay cut during the Wii U so they could make a profit. Miyamoto has joint rights to Mario and others, so he gets a percentage of every sale. He makes more than the president. No one seems to be bothered by this.

Nintendo has taken on the mob, both US and Japanese, and every combination you can think of. They have taken on giants like Sony and Microsoft. They have been challenged by similar things in Europe, China, and even South America. They keep winning.

There are so few books about this. Even the history books don't really talk about it. We should be studying Nintendo as a guide to how to think things through.

I had one insight the other day. The designers at Nintendo learned Assembly and C, and programmed to keep things down. They learned how to be creative with extreme restrictions. When they get more room, they still work with those ideas on mind, so we end up with a much better game. We should teach kids how to program with extreme restrictions and then move them up to the bigger better programs so they learn all the basics really well.