vgchartz really underappreciats a lot of the posts i post around here, but glad you give me some credit for all the hard work i do

Valve would have to be up there; new hardware; Steam as a platform; the innovations in Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead, Portal, willing to give community developers a chance to join the ranks etc.

That Game Company is a good shout as all of their games were bizarre and it must have been quite a strange thing to pitch.

Most Indie developers (e.g. Subset games, Frictional games, Introversion software, Paradox Interactive) should probably be on here too. That seems to be where most of the risks are taken.

Team Ico as well... not having a product for 8 years is risky, right?

Well Sony Santa Monica for being insane enough to take away resources from the single player for God of War: Ascension and use them to create an online component. Also they co-developed/funded/published Flower, Journey and loads of other unique/quirky games which is risky business.

Sony for taking as long as they have to drop the price of the Vita. You've got to be risky if you threaten the very life of your handheld by letting the competitor sell millions because you're too high priced, and by the time you drop the price, there are already a lot more games and an an even cheaper price for your competitor.

first of all he asking is about developers, so this is strictly about games. second of all he is asking about risks, not stupid moves

Atlus, Nis, ND.

Well then Sony would be number one on the who makes the most stupid decisions threads.

Seriously.  Sony has made more dumbass decisions than Sega.  Sony is my favorite first party publishers, but it's clear that it's some sort of miracle they're still in business.

Those games had a low budget so even if it's not sold really well it will still bring them a good amount of money if you think Nintendogs and brain Age so even every indie game are risky and Loco Roco and Patapon are also risky