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celine on 29 July 2008

EDGE wrote an article about the best publisher in the world last year based on various criterias like revenue, profit/loss etc.

Article:

http://www.edge-online.com/features/edges-top-20-publishers-2008

Criteria:

http://www.edge-online.com/features/edges-top-20-publishers-2008?page=0%2C21

They included also interesting graphs like these:

 



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d21lewis on 29 July 2008

Very informative. Thanks for posting this.



celine on 29 July 2008

What is funny is that if you add up the profit of company in black other than Nintendo you obtain a summ lower than Nintendo's profit alone.

What is even more funny is that if you add up all various profit/loss except Nintendo's one then you get a negative result.

I know that is a simplified operation but could make thought about the industry above all because Nintendo was the ONLY company to choose a different way ...



 “In the entertainment business, there are only heaven and hell, and nothing in between and as soon as our customers bore of our products, we will crash.”  Hiroshi Yamauchi

TAG:  Like a Yamauchi pimp slap delivered by Il Maelstrom; serving it up with style.

shams on 29 July 2008

Priceless! Companies 2nd, 3rd & 4th on revenue --> come in last, 2nd last & 3rd last on profitability.

That is the "price" of competing with Nintendo.

And EA used to be way up there on profitability...

Makes you realise how much of the industry is being "subsidized" by the other divisions within MS & Sony - especially MS.



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TWRoO on 29 July 2008

Nintendo at number 1?

BIAS! I call.



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Kyros on 29 July 2008

Wouldn't have thought that Sony is still so close to Nintendo.

 

That is the "price" of competing with Nintendo.

 

I think thats rather the price of competing with each other (Nr.2 and 3)



headshot91 on 29 July 2008

wow didnt no ea had a husge loss or that disney were such a big publisher very informative



headshot91 on 29 July 2008

wow squenixs profitability is massive its like 20% of their revenue!



WiiStation360 on 29 July 2008

The profit graph shows why it is hard for another company to enter the console market. Unless you are the console leader, it is better to just make games.



Naum on 29 July 2008
kowenicki said:
Anyone that thinks these tables are funny is no friend of gaming. It is not good for gaming or the industry and ultimately the consumer that 3rd party software publishers struggle to make money.
It just means they will be more inclined to chase the faster, cheaper buck. And if that means emulating Nintendo then the industry will contract in style and be all the worse for it in my opinion.

 

Why do I get the feeling you wouldn't say that if Sony or M$ were in Nintendos place?

 

 

W-O-W just look at Nintendo



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