A broken clock is right twice a day.

From Wikipedia:

Current studios

* EA Mobile India, Hyderabad.
* Criterion Software in Guildford, United Kingdom
* Digital Illusions CE in Stockholm, Sweden
* EA Black Box in Vancouver, British Columbia
* EA Canada in Burnaby, British Columbia
* EA China in Shanghai, China
* EA Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California
* EA Chicago in Chicago, Illinois
* EA Mobile
* EA Montreal
* EA Casual Entertainment
* EA Mythic in Fairfax, Virginia
* EA Korea in Seoul, South Korea
* EA Brazil in Sao Paulo, Brazil
* EA Redwood Shores in Redwood City, California
* EA Singapore [1]
* EA UK in Chertsey, United Kingdom
* Maxis in Emeryville, California
* EA Phenomic in Ingelheim, Germany
* EA Tiburon in Maitland, Florida
* EA Salt Lake in Bountiful, Utah (Formerly Headgate Studios)
* EISM (European Integration Studio Madrid) in Madrid, Spain


That's a pretty big list, I'd be surprised if anyone could top it.

There was an article on gamasutra I can't find at the moment. I bleive it was sometime last year.

Anyway, they had a chart of R&D software development spending by all the major publishers. EA was first. Sony was really high. Ubisoft was high. Nintendo and Microsoft were both surprisingly low at about similar levels.

Can anyone find the article?

Here's a ranking you can find on Wikipedia:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_publisher#Selected_video_game_publishers

Below are the top 20 video game publishers, ranked by Game Developer Magazine in October 2006, in order of overall score in six factors: annual turnover, number of releases, average review score, quality of producers, reliability of milestone payments and the quality of staff pay and perks. Note that this is not a ranking by revenue, but of the quality of experience of working with the publishers according to staff, and some video game development companies. 2005 positions have been maintained. Buena Vista Games and NCSoft are new to the list, bumping Codemasters off the list.

 i remember something like that.

I did a search and have still come up empty. It annoys me because they had a great graph for spending.

It really struck me how much Sony spends yet until God of War wasn't particularly renound for 1st party output. Certainly not to the same degree Nintendo was/is. It's more poignant in light of Phil Harrison's most recent comments, where he goes on about how Sony's internal spending is far greater than Nintendo and Microsoft's combined and how they have the greatest output. How many Halos, Marios, Zeldas, Perfect Darks, Pokemons, Brain-Ages, Nintendogs etc. did it buy them? One? Two? I guess you'd count God of War, the Insomniac stuff and the Naughty Dog stuff...I guess...

Shadow of the Colossus?

Always thought Capcom was bigger than Konami...

Nintendo has

1. Nintendo(themselves, but there are several here such as R&D1 and EDA)
2. Hal labritories
3. Intelligent Systems
4. NST
5. Monolith Studios
6. GameFreak
7. Genious Senority
8. Retro Studios
9. Noise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_developers

Thats all of them. The only one it doesn't mention is Ape who developed all of the Earthbound games besides Mother 3. They fell out after Earthbound 2 was canned.