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Nintendo's Doug Bowser talks about game industry crunch, game delays, and giving their employees a good work-life balance

Employee health is paramount
by rawmeatcowboy
11 June 2019
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E3 2019 is Nintendo of America’s president Doug Bowser's first real BIG event acting as Nintendo's President. IGN took the opportunity to hit Bowser with some hard questions about game industry crunch. Check out what Bowser had to say below.

“The crunch point is an interesting one. For us, one of our key tenants is that we bring smiles to people's faces, and we talk about that all the time. It's our vision. Or our mission, I should say. For us, that applies to our own employees. We need to make sure that our employees have good work-life balance. One of those examples is, we will not bring a game to market before it's ready. We just talked about one example [in Animal Crossing’s delay]. It's really important that we have that balance in our world. It's actually something we're proud of. To your point, the community obviously is passionate, is vocal, but we also need to make sure that, as an industry, we're having those conversations.”

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