Looking at SONY they are one of the few if not only publisher who invests the most in New crazy ip's. There is no other publisher that doesn't drive its franchises to the ground or forces games to be released unfinsihed or didn't get enough time.
looking at SONY they have 3 US studios (naughty dog, insomanic and Sucker punch) who have created an new franchise for sony's consoles each generation (sucker punch only ps2-ps3). they funded heavy rain, mag and modnations for 2010 alone which are out there titles.
They also have an wide range of titles being published that covers an wide range of genres and on top of releasing world wide releases they still fund japanese only games for there home audience.
Why does it seem that SONY is getting everything right in games publishing while the others are getting stuff wrong. Sure sony has the more money but why does MS have such small 1st party when they have plently of money to buy up so many studios and have relied on 3rd party contacts when they have such dedicated fanboy's that would buy anything good or bad thats exclusive (fable 3). Even Nitendo is very guilty of re re re releasing games over and over but have been at least bringing out new innoviative titles.
Then there is the 3rd Party who seem to make so many bad mistakes: bleeding franchises to death , funding bad games choices, making bad investments and not pushing new ips and have been relieing on old franchises.
Now i am not being an fanboy and saying sony is prefect sure they have made there fair share of mistakes in the publishing deparment but it seems that its nothing to there rights and now look. There 1st party 2011 destroy's the others 2 and they are all setting up to being great games.
you would think publishers would start and copy sony when really sony started from nothing 15 years ago to an publishing powerhouse.
Of Course That's Just My Opinion, I Could Be Wrong
