and with that itagaki's out of here.

+igarashi

-mikami

I'm going straight after Sakurai, for that very same reason.  Nobody messes with Kojima.  And frankly, I don't even care how this works out.  The whole things irrelevant w/o Yamauchi.

Well, I would say may the best developer win but since Kojima is already out, it doesn't even matter cause according to this thread, Sakurai is better! Yar har har!

As I said, the whole thing's irrelevant w/o Yamauchi.  That having been said, just screwing with the results for the fun of it will suffice.

gran turismo was once big but is no longer even remotely close to what it was in the late 90s, early 00s. if you're going to play you should play in something like good faith and not just to screw with the results... and of course, if you are doing the latter, i wouldn't announce it because it makes people want to reverse your votes.

Rather subjective analysis, considering the franchise has sold what almost 14 million units in 4 years, 17-18m in 5? (There are numerous games made by folks listed on the front, that _wish_ they had those kinds of numbers.  Granted, your Marios and Metroids aren't among them hah).  Hell, add all 18 versions of Ace Attorney and you're still looking at ~5m units, since 2005.  Go back to 2005 w/ GT and we're talking 21m units.

+ Mikami
- Sakurai

I will avenge Kojima

This is starting to look like a race to second place xD
Also, top 3 are so far are all Nintendo developers :P

sales are not the only metric. undeniably i think, driving sims/realistic racing games are on the decline, taken over by open-world arcade-y racers like burnout and need for speed on the one hand and mario kart and its numerous knock-offs on the other. (mario kart, by the way, has alone outsold, as a series, all the gran turismo games, with the best-selling doing 30m+.) but... there's also the series' declining critical reception. it's gone from a high of 96 in 1998 (for the original game) to 81 in the most recent installment (gt6).

anyway, it's an omission, as is harada. i've admitted as much. it's less to do with my not caring for them as my not remembering them immediately. if you had posted earlier on in the thread i would probably have added him, but we're too far along at this point.

+ Mikami
- Sakurai