The Top 20 Game Publishers

Below is Game Developer magazine's list of the top 20 game publishers. Not a Brit in sight. Criteria include a survey of 900 industry professionals, review scores and company revenue:

1. Nintendo (NTDOY.PK)
2. Electronic Arts (ERTS)
3. Activision Blizzard (ATVI)
4. Ubisoft (UBSFY.PK)
5. Take-Two (TTWO)
6. Sony Computer Entertainment (SNE)
7. Bethesda Softworks
8. THQ (THQI)
9. Square Enix (SQNXF.PK)
10. Microsoft (MSFT)
11. Konami (KNM)
12. Sega (SGAMY.PK)
13. Capcom (CCOEF.PK)
14. MTV Games
15. Namco Bandai Games (NCBDF.PK)
16. Warner Bros. Interactive
17. Disney Interactive (DIS)
18. Atari (ATAR.PK)
19. Atlus
20. LucasArts

Comments

[Tom B:]

No iPhone game makers? Bet the list is quite different next year!

Also, it seems stupid to include company revenue. MSFT makes its money off Windows; the game division is a money pit. Sony also has lots of non-game businesses. Surveys and review scores can also be misleading, but you need to get data SOMEHOW. I might look at number of copies downloaded and bought.

Oct 07 11:50 PM

[GoMyLittleS...:]

ATVI has twice the revenue of ERTS, yet shows below it. AFAIK ATVI (and especially Blizzard) doesn't have such bad review scores to compensate ignoring the doubling of revenue - so this list seems very quirky indeed.

This is good to sell magazines, not useful as investment data.

Oct 16 01:03 PM