Game Developer Research's 'Top 20 Publishers 2009' stays the same
The industry analysts at Game Developer Research could have saved themselves a whole mess of time and money by releasing the following statement in lieu of
the latest edition of their annual Top 20 Publishers report: "
See previous year." Differentiation from last year's top five ranks -- which, let's be honest, are the
only ones you really care about -- is almost non-existent:
Nintendo placed first (again),
EA came in second (again),
Activision Blizzard followed in third (again),
Ubisoft retained its fourth place position (again), and
Take-Two moved up from sixth to fifth, bumping
Sony out of the top five.
The full, totally unsurprising list -- which was calculated based on number of games released, average review scores for said games and estimated revenue for each company -- can be found after the jump. Comments stating why
Publisher A is still infinitely better than
Publisher B can be found further below.
[Via
Gamasutra]
- Nintendo
- Electronic Arts
- Activision Blizzard
- Ubisoft
- Take-Two
- Sony Computer Entertainment
- Bethesda Softworks
- THQ
- Square Enix
- Microsoft
- Konami
- Sega
- Capcom
- MTV Games
- Namco Bandai Games
- Warner Bros. Interactive
- Disney Interactive
- Atari
- Atlus
- LucasArts
