Sony should be awarded Publisher of the Year in 09

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

Alic0004 said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

SpartanFX said:

all of these are reviewd  above 9 in IGN and have very good metacritic scores.

Review scores are not a solid measure of the quality of a game or the quality of a companies performance.  If that was the case, Nintendo would have been bankrupt with the N64 and Sony would have more money than all other gaming companies combined.  As it so turned out, the opposite is true.

And as it so turned out, Nintendo is the company winning all the major awards this year as well.

Ken, how many major awards have been given out this year?  Seems odd to do before games like Modern Warfare 2 and NSMB can even hit.

 

I would be very surprised if Nintendo can win "all the major awards" in a year when their own president admits they messed up and "let the mood cool."

They've already won multiple awards this year (one for being the 'most innovative' company as well as a number of smaller awards).  But yes, they won't win all the awards.  I was just speaking in generalization that Nintendo is the one who seems to be winning all the awards.  It seems rather stupid that suddenly when Sony turns around and starts selling more units for a couple months and sells 'less' of a deficit, they should be awarded 'Publisher of the Year'.

Last time I checked, there's more to being a good publisher than just having popular games.  They also need to make a profit and hold that title for a sustained amount of time.  Something Nintendo has done for oh...3-4 years now consistently.  And Sony has dropped the ball on badly and needs to work a while on to gain that title back.