Alot of horrible companies missing from the list that were once uber-companies:
Midway
Great dev in the 90s, but what was the last real good game from them?
Atari
The quientesential developer for the North American market. Now utter crap. Now not even a company on it's own (part of infrogrames, a pretty crappy dev too)
Vivendi Universal
Although they get tons of points for owning Blizzard, they single handedly killed Sierra, and Sierra's various smaller studios (such as Dynamix). Atleast when EA merges with a studio, they try to make good games. Vivendi does not.
And for Japanese developers, I'm going to go out on a limb and list 2:
Sega (I mean c'mon: Sonic, Phantasy Star, Shining Force. How could you wind up like this?!?)
Konami (doesn't get a pass from me. Although SH and MGS are great, it just seems like for as large as they are, they should have more. Definately crappy when compared to other studios of similar origins/size like Namco and Capcom)
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
