Nintendo investigating Wii U manufacturer after child labor admission

Apple investigated Foxconn plant after a series of suicides (2 years ago) and they found nothing. They only care about their margins.

They asked Siri  :

- "Are there any problems in our cheap Foxconn plant ?"

- "No Sir, everything is fine, people are very happy here"

- "OK, back to Cupertino !"

Poor Chinese !

ms acer sony use them to i feel bad for having stuff from where they have kids work. i wonder who sega use to use because i have every sega console there ever was.

Not happy that it breaks the law... But perfectly happy to have people work for nothing as long as they're over that age... Gotta love the morals.

What the fuck is Nintendo, Apple, Sony and god knows who else that uses Foxconn to build their shit doing??!! Have none of these people got kids?? Disgusting

Why do companies and or people even bother pretending to be 'shocked' by news like this. This happens all the time in China and the companies and people continue to support China's manufacturing because they want stuff cheap. The sad truth is those kids probably need the money badly so their family won't have to move into a cardboard box.  

So what about all the other electronics manufactured by Foxconn? I find it funny that Nintendo is being attacked over this when so many electronic giants use Foxconn... 

Also if people were really concerned about this they wouldn't be buying anything made in third world countries(and China).

Nintendo is big on family-freindly gaming, no so big on the family-freindly manufacturing.

I bet most of the child labour is on the Apple side of things making overpriced and crappy iPhones,iPads,iPods.

Nice to see Nintendo speak out about this, hopefully the other companies that are partnered with foxconn will speak out. However,

Japan has been dealing with economic issues for a while now.

The US and Europe has been dealing with their economies and unemployment. If they really cared about ethical conditions these companies would employ workers from their own country so they could not only deal first hand with the "ethical" manufacturing of their products but also help their country's economies. 

They really  only care about profits and avoiding bad press.

Nintendo, made for kids!  Made by kids!

>like Foxconn, to check worker morale, interview administrators, and pore over records.

>worker morale

>Foxconn

>morale

Not exactly that surprising, child labor isn't that uncommon in the world. At least nintendo is trying to do something.

C'mon Nintendo I want to respect you...

they could make this work in their favor through smart PR. the new slogan : made by children, for children. jk

Chinese factories with dubious work ethics, you don't say?! 

Good on them.

Foxconn also put together the XBox 360 and PS3 but you don't see Sony or Microsoft giving a crap. Where was all this press when those consoles were being made?

As if they're actually going to do anything. Nothing matters as long as fat American children can get their electronics for cheap.

Interesting article. 

The Reuters statement seems to read that there is no surprise @ Foxconn's end...

 ...

I could go on, but that would feel mute.

Growing population vs employment, is gambit we are in; globally now.

Nintendo in court: "It's natural to use child labor to make a game system for children, right? Right? Mama mia."

As long as I get my Wii U, I don't care if Nintendo beat those kids. This is funny though.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha O Nintendo

Its actually ironic if you think about it. Kids in China, who probably never get to use a game console, make Products which kids in the US play with.

sad story no one should make children under the age work they should have the right to go school and have a education like everyone else, but working conditions in china is $1 per hour in labour for the adults isn't it?

I feel bad that kids have to work like this, but it's better than living on the streets with no pay at all. Living conditions in China are terrible, it's no wonder they cut corners to make ends meet.

Why do people even enter business with Foxconn any more? This isn't the first time there have been problems with working conditions in there factories. Need I remind you of the recent iphone 5 delay and the threats of suicide in the Foxconn Xbox factories?

At least they found a replacement for monkeys in their factories...

Nintendos new slogan should say "for children, by children."

I don't think anyone is the least bit surprised to learn this.

Foxconn are a typical Eastern/Communistic style company, with the one motto : It ain't wrong until you get caught.

Note to those who want to stop supporting Foxconn and demand the companies are using overseas manufacturers to bring the work back to the U.S.

First off, you'll have to stop buying products from the following companies:Acer

Amazon

Apple

Cisco

Dell

HP

Intel

Microsoft

Motorola

Nintendo

Nokia

Samsun

Sony

Toshiba

Vizio 

Secondly, you'll have to accept that dramatic increase in price of all products made by the above companies if they suddenly move their manufacturing to the U.S.

As a fun fact, the employees at Foxconn that work on the iPad assembly line make about $14 USD (about 87 Chinese YUAN) per day or $420 USD (2,610 YUAN) per month . After a couple of years working their, they get a raise to $24 per day.  

The minimum wage in China in the Sichuan province (where Foxconn factories are located) is about 1001 to 1050 YUAN per month.  So, at least for the iPad assembly line, they are getting double minimum wage.  That's not too bad, in my opinion.

If the manufacturing was brought here to the states, consider the ratio between China's minimum wage and the US minimum wage for a factory worker.  Where as $14 USD per day is fine over there, that'd be more like $72 per day here (at $9 minimum wage).  Guess what that'll do to all those fun gaming console, Apple devices, etc?  

Yeah, say goodbye to being able to afford any of that stuff.