Nintendo Reiterates 'ESG' Initiatives On The Environment, Diversity And Transparency

Nintendo are my favourite company in the world, but this is still another corporation putting some words together in order to make them sound like they care.

Well, one thing is easy, sort out the drift issue and there will not be as much waste of replacing the worn out control sticks

If they really cared about the environment they wouldn’t have released console after console and handheld after handheld since the 80s. Clearly the NES and gameboy were good enough but corporate greed made them release new systems just so old systems found there way to garbage dumps.

@sixrings well nobody is forcing anybody to buy new products and as ling people don't thought it away it won't effect anything.

Consumer ist still the main key of the issues.

Like all large corporations, this stuff will never go far enough but it is at least better than nothing.

in general people should consume less. If rising costs stop people from consuming so much then so be it.

There comes to a point where was have to step back and take a look at what's bad and what's worse. Nintendo is indeed wasteful. Faulty control sticks and they produce their consoles and accessories with cheap labour (other than the Pro Controller which was apparently manufactured in Germany). But at least they tried to make use of everything and they were well prepared to tackle any current world events.

Sony and Microsoft, on the other hand, are worse off than Nintendo. First off, they have absolutely no reason to create discs for their consoles, because the discs are rarely ever actually used. The discs only serve as granting access to a digital version of a game. At least with the Switch, the Game Cards save some space. The Blu-ray discs barely do anything. Secondly, they both chose not to delay their 9th Gen consoles, in the midst of the pandemic and a drought. Sure, Nintendo is almost guilty of the same thing with the Switch OLED, but at least that was just a revision and not a whole brand new console.

Good on Nintendo for this!

Lots of PR buzzwords meant to please people who push politics.

@WeltraumDreamer Or we could build thorium reactors for energy to save the environment instead of implementing sinister population control laws that will no doubt violate human rights.

@Meteoroid Have you just not been paying attention to the fact the world’s literally on fire? If the planet’s doomed then it’ll obviously affect people’s pockets anyway. The entire problem is that companies are refusing to take a hit now to stave off a massive hit we’ll all take in the future.

@WeltraumDreamer As it stands now, we can support a population of 10 to 12 billion with the world's current farms and population growth has stagnated in the developed world or it is at sub replacement levels, meaning people aren't having enough kids to replace themselves. Newer options for food are becoming available and indoor farming could become a widespread thing. Think of a parking garage, but each level is farmland, maximizing the land available by building up.

I don't know what a future limit for the human population can be but as technology advances we could potentially never have a cap if new planets are terraformed and colonized. For now though we ought to build thorium reactors and scrap the so-called green energy sources which eat up huge swaths of land, driving out wild life or outright harming it like wind turbines do to endangered birds and fill landfills when they break and are made of hard to find materials. Thorium is cheap and abundant and has potential to be recycled or repurposed once it is used up.

@nessisonett We could severely drop carbon emissions if loads of countries went ahead with nuclear energy. France uses nuclear and produces so much energy they send some of it to other countries. Also, electric vehicles aren't helping if they're recharged with fossil fuel power plants, a lot of people think they're saving the world by driving a Tesla car. I don't think anyone needs to sacrifice anything, we just need to upgrade power grids to use nuclear energy.

@Tourtus Nuclear has its own problems though. Ideally places with the right conditions for renewable energy will fully take advantage of their environment. Then nuclear could step in where needed in countries without the right conditions.

These days I'd prefer a company that was honest and said "We're about making great games. We don't care what color you are, who you worship, what you want to be called, any of that. We're not going to try to force some arbitrary vision of "diversity", because reducing complex, wonderful, individual human beings to a single trait and lumping them all together in groups is dehumanizing."

"...aims to support the advancement of women in the company."

It better be because they actually have the skill sets to be advanced and not because of a quota.

I hope this means, no NFT BS from Nintendo.

As some have already said, if Nintendo fixed the joycon drifts that forced users to buy other joycons sooner, they wouldn't have contruibuited to plastic waste these past years. I'm all about companies caring about the environment as long as it's genuine and not PR stunts or virtue signals.

That's nice but all I really want from these companies is good products at reasonable prices.

@Meteoroid There were thousands of us marching through the streets of Glasgow today. People are absolutely starting to see the bigger picture.

"ESG"

Oh boy. Good bye Nintendo. These are the same initiatives that killed Sony, Disney, and Warner. Expect products made for investors instead of gamers from now on.

@FantasiaWHT That would be nice, but instead we have the Borg approach. Everything must assimilate!

Unfortunately for all the talks about RRR it solves nothing. We the consumers asked for it and guess what they delivery. And we come back hopping and hollering we don't like it but wait we want it. Which is hypocritical in itself. They at the end of the day are company and making money is what they will do. It's how they approach it that is the real meat on the bone. They can only do so much RRR the rest is the Wider Consumers yes...US buyers that need to change our habits if we want them to change how they do business. It doesn't mean they go out of Business trust me that wouldn't be good for anyone. But it takes two to tango and Business only does so much the other part Consumers need to step back and ask how do we incentives them to do the right thing. If both of those come together then what Nintendo is willing to do will be a good thing.

@nessisonett Thorium has less of those problems when it comes to nuclear power sources, it's much, much safer and if leaks do happen it doesn't irradiate the area for a century. I don't support uranium as a power source. I'd also think it's best for countries to be independent when it comes to energy.

As I mentioned in another comment I wrote, green energy sources need lots of land to generate proper amounts of energy, land that is better suited for farming and forests which clean our air and provide habitats for animals. I feel like since land is a finite resource, it's important to save a lot of it. Nuclear power plants use much smaller amounts of land compared to green alternatives. Green sources of energy are also entirely dependent on the weather, if it's cloudy or if the wind isn't blowing hard enough the energy output decreases or stops completely at night for solar. Some power plants fix this with reserve batteries which are terrible for the environment because of the materials used and the processes needed to create them or they switch back to natural gas or other fossil fuels. Nuclear stays at the same output level irregardless of conditions and as long as the waste is properly stored it's harmless.

Solar panels use tons of water to be cleaned (which can be problematic with droughts) and they're made from rare metals which have to be dug up using powerful mining equipment which emit large amounts of carbon and other toxins into the air and the panels aren't easily recycled when they reach the ends of their lives. Wind turbines also have this same recycling issue, so they just get thrown into landfills when they break. Also I read somewhere that the materials in solar panels can be toxic and pollute the ground when their thrown away which can poison groundwater.