D3 is clearly the best publisher as no one else has brought us one Earth Defense Force this generation, let alone two.

Square-Enix is easily the worst, and I hope they die.

im not gonna talk about sales, because they dont affect me as a gamer, i have not stock in any of these companies. For me the best was Sony, they worked there butts off to publish game online and off. Namco might be the worst. SE you sucked a bit too. Everyone else is meh. Ninty has been fine, recent events not withstanding

Capcom?This gen's Capcom is nowhere near as good as last two gen's.Nowhere near the top as well.Heck I would even go as far as to say they disappointed.

I'll go with SE as for the worst publisher.When everyone is more hyped for their Eidos counterpart you know something is wrong.

As for the best.I honestly don't know.The only thing I know is that THQ is a serious contender for that spot next generation.Huge improvements quality wise with some pretty huge exclusivity deals (Turtle rock,itagaki and del toro to name a few).

Sony,MS and Nintendo were pretty good as well.All three of them.

Not trying to start an argument or anything but Nintendo is not really a company that provides "Mature" games.

TakeTwo own Rockstar.

Anyway... A list of the things they've done/ are doing -

Agent (lol), BioShock, BioShock 2, BioShock Infinite, Borderlands, Civilization IV, Civilization V, GTA 4 and Episodes, LA Noire, Mafia 2, Manhunt 2, Midnight Club LA, 2k Sports series, Red Dead Redemption...

Best: Nintendo


Worst: Square Enix - all they've been good for are remakes of old games. The last good game from them was Dragon Quest IX and that ended up being published by Nintendo

If you run for president I vote you.

I've always liked eidos more than square anyways (Though I've always loved square). But I'm not the majority I guess.
I'd agree with boutros SE has been dissapointing though far from the worst, atleast on home consoles (They're my favorite portable game dev/publisher imo). But this is SE the developer most of you are considering. Not SE the publisher. SE the publisher counts eidos remakes and localizations.

Which, they've done quite well with since they aquired eidos so I can't say they're dissapointing as a publisher.

LCatGoL, FFXIII, Batman: AA are 3 of my top 10 favorite console games this gen so that's not too bad. Along with other surprises like Just Cause 2. and two huge ones coming up. Deus Ex, and Tomb raider.

My favorite publisher is Xseed. They're translations are far better than most square-enix barring(Tactics Ogre), nintendo, or sega localizations. IMO. On a way smaller budget and they bring over cool niche titles we wouldn't get otherwise.

knaw'll capcom has put out some pretty good games this gen and more to come with drgons dogma and DMC. I just feel they are consistent. I would add namco bandai after we get abyss 3ds, graces, xillia and the possible hd remakes.

From my perspective, it's very close between Sony and Nintendo but Sony has the edge for me personally because first off, no one can deny the immense success and innovation Nintendo has brought in for this gen and producing quite a number of mega selling games, SMG, SSBB, DKCR, Mario Kart, etc. Not to mention the extreme success of the DS and soon to be 3DS.

But the reason why Sony had the edge for me was because their games appealed to me more. No they don't go selling mega busters like Nintendo's titles but Sony's IPs and the games they released during this gen provided me with as Sony would call it, 'first class entertainment I would expect from PlayStation'. And I got exactly that. Not to mention I got great joy out from playing the PSP and the awesome games on that as well. So that's why I chose Sony.

Close runner up to these two for me would be EA. With the exception of EA Sports, I pretty much loved most of their titles.