Overview
- Nintendo’s official Q&A clarifies that the widely reported 10 percent base-salary increase took effect in April 2023, not as a new raise this year.
- The company also says it implemented further salary increases in April 2026, including starting pay, but it has not published detailed figures for those changes.
- Early coverage relied heavily on live posts from an X account and machine-translated summaries, which led many outlets to incorrectly report a fresh 10 percent raise.
- A discrepancy remains over the wording of a shareholder question about unions because the attendee transcript mentioned union-related language that Nintendo’s published Q&A omits.
- Nintendo confirmed that veteran developer Takashi Tezuka will step down as an executive officer but will remain with the company, and the episode highlights risks in relying on unofficial live reporting for corporate disclosures.