According to a new report released on Tuesday, Nintendo trailed Sony last year in terms of the highest rated games, followed by Capcom, Lucas Arts, Atlus, EA, and Microsoft.

In the wake of Electronic Arts saying it was unhappy with its low review scores two weeks ago, Next-Generation has compiled an exhaustive list of publishers who released 10 or more games in 2007, ranking them by combined average review scores.

Sony bested 26 other publishers with a combined average of 78% according to compiled data from GameRankings.com, followed by Nintendo with 75%, and Capcom with 74%. Lucas Arts, EA, and Atlus rounded out the top five with 73%, 72%, and 71% respectively, followed by Microsoft Game Studios at 69%.

Square Enix held the top spot in 2006 while Microsoft hoisted the honor in 2005, the data tells. Nintendo lingered in the third and second spot respectively.

Additionally, the report ranked publishers who released 10 or more games in a single calendar year in terms of their output, including ports. EA was number one in terms of sheer volume, followed by Activision and THQ

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According to Metacritic:

Not surprised in the least :) Too many damn first and second party devs xD

So which one of the two has more data? (more reviews?)

 thats odd.. if this was from metacritic, i wonder where next-generation got their average review scores from, since they are both a few points off from each other

nice! score 1 for sony!

That's just because Nintendo's casual games.

Taking an average over every released game doesn't paint a good picture, 5 great games don't go down in quality because of 5 mediocre games released by the same company.

cool for them