Sony Rated the Best Big Game Company to Work for in Japan, Beating Nintendo, Capcom, More

It's because they value their workers and don't close studios abruptly like some other companies do.

The staff:

I wish Sony hired company strategists without any credentials whatsoever, i would apply immediately 😅

@Oram77 These things are often taken anonymously though, at least where i work it is. Kind of defeats the purpose of it if it wasn’t

@Czar_Khastik Maybe studios do better if their best pitch isn’t an Atreus spin off, and apparently were flailing for years with development, especially seeing as Sony pays them well

@Oram77 High pay and prestige = desirable

****ing scum-bag compa… oh wait, how nice 😁

@LogicStrikesAgain @ECharles It's a joke...

@Oram77 I understand and assumed it was, but i’m sure many here actually do feel like this might indeed be a case where workers feel pressured to say good things about there employer though, especially after they closed Bluepoint. So i still thought i’d point it out

Sony workers making about 25% more than Nintendo employees while working about 40% less overtime hours I'm guessing contributes to the slightly higher satisfaction rating at Sony.

I mean who could have possibly guessed that, pay your workers more while working less hours makes them more satisfied.

I'm shocked.
Shocked.
Well, not that shocked.

High pay + Low overtime + high overall work satisfaction

Notice how the more antiquated companies the more overtime work.

@LogicStrikesAgain I mean it's no secret that the Japanese work cultre can be extremely brutal, just look at the anime sector, but hey if these works are truly happy working for Sony that's great news.

@KeanuReaves Overtime is a financial and emotional plus when you like working more than not.

I mean it's good to see these high satisfaction levels, but Sony also has much smaller Japanese headcounts now in comparison to other companies. Not to say that isn't bad or anything, but I wonder how different this would be if Japan Studio was still alive

Sony = Japan and probably yes.
PlayStation = USA and probably no.

Man Nintendo and SE some cheap skates. Nintendo doesnt surprise me. Looks like they get over on not only their consumers but also their employees

I wonder how many actual developers are at SIE Japan versus Nintendo of Japan.

Doubt that the BluePoint folks would now think that Sony was a good place to work for

I'm surprised. I thought Nintendo would be no 1 with how Japan loves everything about Nintendo.

I want to and will live in Japan but never want to work there. I'm used to work maximum 100 days a year (way less usually) and have more than enough

@PuppetMaster Loving the product and working for them are two different things

Square Enix at the bottom doesn't surprise me at all. I'm not buying anything from them (published or developed) since 2024. People working for them should just jump ship and look for work in a better place.

@Oram77 What i mean, i never see Japanese say bad things about Nintendo workplace or like they got unfair treatment. It's like the company have super clean and perfect image. And the ones who worked for Nintendo, not all of them for sure, possibly bought and loves Nintendo products too.

Interesting numbers. I’m always curious about this kind of stuff and how these companies function at this level.

@LogicStrikesAgain My job has two such surveys each year and they are anonymous, but this year one of them had the option to un-anonymize. Everyone’s reaction was, “Why?!”

but there are only TWO studios working out of japan for sony... or under 400 staff members combined. small sample size relative to the other publishers.

Some positive news, at last.

@PuppetMaster maybe it's because they work for Nintendo

@Porco PlayStation has other facilities and departments in Japan than just developers.Like the Asian headquarters and hardware and research divisions. Example, Cerny designs the hardware technology of the console but Japan turns that into a physical product including final physical design. The ps4 and 5 unboxing were done by the Japanese guy who oversaw the actual physical design iirc.

All of the companies listed have a lot more staff than just development and none of them are strictly console development houses, they all do other things too.

I don’t see anything suggesting this is just people working directly on game development.

@naruball Yeah maybe. And Nintendo is older than Sony too which i thought Japanese workers would gives more respect and positive words for Nintendo than Sony. But i guess i was wrong.

That‘s called survivor bias. Fired staff from Japan Studio couldn’t poll negatively.

@LowDefAl you aren't wrong, but doesn't change the fact that sony's game development influnece out of japan is a drop in the bucket next to all the other publishers... even more dire when you consider that asobi is a relatively new studio under the umbrella. people are generally most interested (and concerned) about the working conditions of game development as it has a toxic reputation. people are reading this article from the perspective of gaming afterall.

the fact that sony has a fraction of developers working in japan compared to its competition most likely inflated the survey results in its favour to be honest. if this survey included all arms of these publishers (worldwide) sony wouldn't be near the top.