gamrConnect Most Wanted: August 2012

[Salnax]

JEMC said:

Great work as usual Salnax.

Looking at this chart

Salnax said:

Publisher	Appearances	Points	Votes	Average
Nintendo	13	163	52	12.538
Sony	9	108	38	12
Square Enix	14	88	28	6.2857
Take-Two	11	59	17	5.3636
Ubisoft	7	58	20	8.2857
Microsoft	4	34	12	8.5
Namco Bandai	4	34	11	8.5
Capcom	5	28	9	5.6
Atlus	3	23	5	7.6667
Activision Blizzard	3	17	5	5.6667
Xseed	2	15	4	7.5
THQ	4	12	5	3
Konami	5	11	7	2.2
Electronic Arts	3	10	3	3.3333
Sega	5	10	5	2
Bethesda	3	9	3	3
Disney	1	9	2	9
Geeta	1	5	1	5
Focus Home	1	4	1	4
Ncsoft	1	4	1	4
Tecmo Koei	2	4	3	2
Level-5	1	2	1	2
Lace Mamba	1	1	1	1

Something has come to my mind: you give us the average points/appearences but which is the average points/votes?

Publisher	Points	Votes	Average Points
Nintendo	163	52	3,134
Sony	108	38	2,842
Square Enix	88	28	3,143
Take-Two	59	17	3,470
Ubisoft	58	20	2,9
Microsoft	34	12	2,8333
Namco Bandai	34	11	3,091
Capcom	28	9	3,111
Atlus	23	5	4,6
Activision Blizzard	17	5	3,4
Xseed	15	4	3,75
THQ	12	5	2,4
Konami	11	7	1,571
Electronic Arts	10	3	3,333
Sega	10	5	2
Bethesda	9	3	3
Disney	9	2	4,5
Geeta	5	1	5
Focus Home	4	1	4
Ncsoft	4	1	4
Tecmo Koei	4	3	1,333
Level-5	2	1	2
Lace Mamba	1	1	1

Now, if we exclude the ones with only 1 vote, and put them in order we end up with

Publisher	Points	Votes	Average Points
Atlus	23	5	4,6
Disney	9	2	4,5
Xseed	15	4	3,75
Take-Two	59	17	3,47058824
Activision Blizzard	17	5	3,4
Electronic Arts	10	3	3,33333333
Square Enix	88	28	3,14285714
Nintendo	163	52	3,13461538
Capcom	28	9	3,11111111
Namco Bandai	34	11	3,09090909
Bethesda	9	3	3
Ubisoft	58	20	2,9
Sony	108	38	2,84210526
Microsoft	34	12	2,83333333
THQ	12	5	2,4
Sega	10	5	2
Konami	11	7	1,57142857
Tecmo Koei	4	3	1,33333333

The winner is Atlus! Closely followed by Disney.

The rest of the top 5 is Xseed, Take Two and, surprisingly, EA.

What do you think?

Atlus being #1 makes sense. They have some hardcore fans. Disney and XSeed also make sense, since they're making the last big Wii games. T2 puzzles me, but Activision Blizzard has Starcraft and CoD on their side, which gave them a healthy boost. As for EA, they only had three votes, one of them a 5er for Dead Space 3.

As for who lost, it also makes sense. Tecmo Koei and Sega are not releasing any huge games soon, Konami's efforts are divided across platforms and are largely derivative, and THQ just has had bad luck lately.