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Slimebeast on 18 March 2010

The list is a bit flawed in my opinion.

EA sports belongs to EA.

2K Sports, 2K Games and Rockstar belong to Take-Two

RedOctane belongs to Activision.



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jarrod on 18 March 2010

Ack, table errors!  Don't copy/past on VGC. ;_;



jarrod on 18 March 2010

Adjusted chart, OP's point still stands...

 

Wii

 

 

PlayStation 3

 

 

Xbox 360

 

Nintendo

23

 

Sony

11

 

Electronic Arts

27

Electronic Arts

10

 

Electronic Arts

10

 

Microsoft

14

Ubisoft

7

 

Activision

5

 

Activision

13

Sega

6

 

Ubisoft

4

 

Ubisoft

8

Activision

5

 

Konami

4

 

Take 2

7

Disney 

4

 

THQ

3

 

Capcom

5

Lucasarts

4

 

Square Enix

3

 

THQ

4

Capcom

3

 

Capcom

3

 

Konami

3

Namco Bandai 

3

 

Bethesda Softworks

2

 

LucasArts

3

Konami

3

 

Namco Bandai

2

 

Warner Bros.

1

Majesco

2

 

Take 2

2

 

Bethesda Softworks

1

Take 2

2

 

LucasArts

2

 

Namco Bandai

1

Midway 

2

 

Midway

1

 

Tecmo

1

THQ

1

 

 

 

 

Sega

1

Warner Bros.

1

 

 

 

 

Midway

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Square Enix

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disney

1

TOTAL

76

 

TOTAL

52

 

TOTAL

92

 


Hephaestos on 18 March 2010

let's do the same list with 10+ milion sellers..... errrr....

(nice list though, but yeah there are flaws)



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nordlead on 18 March 2010
jarrod said:
SecondWar said:
Shouldnt publishers like EA and EA Sports, and Activision and Red octance be counted together as they are really the same company

Yeah, in some cases they're separated by brand.  It's like splitting Nintendo and the Pokemon Company in Japan.

 

For separate brands, or companies who are really subsidiaries, and could be combined in the charts...

  • Electronic Arts should include EA Sports and MTV Games (not owned, but they're the distributor/publisher for Rock Band)
  • Activision should include Red octane (wholly owned) 
  • Namco Bandai should include D3 Publisher (wholly owned)
  • Konami should include Hudson (majority owned, exclusive distributor)
  • 2K Play, Global Star, Rockstar Games, 2K Games, 2K Sports should all be listed a s Take 2 Interactive

yea, hopefully in the near future we'll be pushing out a new feature that will have publishing "groups" per say.




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routsounmanman on 18 March 2010
i love xbox360 said:
wow such a big difference between nin and ubisoft.

Yeah, the quality gap is gigantic.



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jarrod on 18 March 2010
nordlead said:
jarrod said:
SecondWar said:
Shouldnt publishers like EA and EA Sports, and Activision and Red octance be counted together as they are really the same company

Yeah, in some cases they're separated by brand.  It's like splitting Nintendo and the Pokemon Company in Japan.

 

For separate brands, or companies who are really subsidiaries, and could be combined in the charts...

  • Electronic Arts should include EA Sports and MTV Games (not owned, but they're the distributor/publisher for Rock Band)
  • Activision should include Red octane (wholly owned) 
  • Namco Bandai should include D3 Publisher (wholly owned)
  • Konami should include Hudson (majority owned, exclusive distributor)
  • 2K Play, Global Star, Rockstar Games, 2K Games, 2K Sports should all be listed a s Take 2 Interactive

yea, hopefully in the near future we'll be pushing out a new feature that will have publishing "groups" per say.

That'd be awesome, it's one of my pet peeves with VGC's database. 

Oh, and I forgot to mention the Square Enix owns Eidos, so they can probably be listed there (I did it in my revision).

 



damndl0ser on 18 March 2010

Wow, it looks as if 3rd party developers probably love the 360! Eye opening to say the least!



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Kasz216 on 18 March 2010
damndl0ser said:
Wow, it looks as if 3rd party developers probably love the 360! Eye opening to say the least!

Keep in mind... 360 had a head start.

So you would want to adjust for that.

Probably meausre Million sellers / months on the market.



jarrod on 18 March 2010
damndl0ser said:
Wow, it looks as if 3rd party developers probably love the 360! Eye opening to say the least!

As always, it depends on the 3rd party.  Sega, Namco Bandai, Disney, Lucasarts and Majesco have all done best on Wii while Square Enix, Bethesda and Konami have done best on PS3 going by this list (which admittedly isn't the whole picture).

Actually, if you divide the lists by numbers of 3rd parties who've performed best...

  1. 360: 7 publishers
  2. Wii: 5 publishers
  3. PS3: 3 publishers
  4. 360/Wii tied: 1 publisher