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Squilliam on 28 December 2008
NJ5 said:

Right now, Sony has the most employees working on gaming (a consequence of years of console market domination). More than 5,000 last I checked, while Nintendo has less than 4,000.

I'd be surprised if Nintendo didn't take that throne soon though (both through expansion and Sony's possible downsizing/ending some studios).

 

$500,000,000 per year operating expenses!

Ouch, that is a lot.

 



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NJ5 on 28 December 2008
Squilliam said:
NJ5 said:

Right now, Sony has the most employees working on gaming (a consequence of years of console market domination). More than 5,000 last I checked, while Nintendo has less than 4,000.

I'd be surprised if Nintendo didn't take that throne soon though (both through expansion and Sony's possible downsizing/ending some studios).

 

$500,000,000 per year operating expenses!

Ouch, that is a lot.

 

I'm not entirely sure it's more than 5,000. The data I'm able to find right now is:

SCEE - 1900 employees (source)

SCEI - 1200 employees (source)

I can't find data for SCEA. I'd be surprised if SCEA was much smaller than SCEE though, so about 5,000 sounds right.

 



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Pretendo on 28 December 2008

Sony:
Clap Hanz
Polyphony Digital
SCE Japan Studio
Team ICO
Incognito Entertainment
Naughty Dog
SCE Bend Studio
SCE Foster City Studio
SCE San Diego Studio
SCE Santa Monica Studio
Sony Online Entertainment LLC.
Zipper Interactive
SCE Korea
Bigbig Studios
Evolution Studios
Guerrilla Games
SCE London Studio (2 teams)
SCE Studio Cambridge
SCE Studio Liverpool

Mirosoft:
Microsoft Game Studios
ACES Game Studio
Lionhead
Rare
Turn 10:
Wingnut Interactive
Xbox Live Productions

Nintendo:
Nintendo EAD (6 teams)
Nintendo STC
Nintendo SPD (4 teams)
Monolith Soft
Brownie Brown
Intelligent Systems
Retro Studios
AlphaDream
Ambrella
Game Freak
Genius Sonority
HAL Laboratory
NDCUBE
Noise
skip Ltd

This should be pretty complete.



ShadowSoldier on 28 December 2008
ymeaga1n said:
Slimebeast said:
CGI-Quality said:
@ Tremble

It does.

@ slimebeast

So you're saying that MS 1st Party Studios have more"quality" exclusives than Nintendo and Sony? Remember key words here are 1ST Party, which doesn't include Gears 1 or 2.

 

 lol no. Perhaps average quality of MS studios is better, but of course their 1st party department is weak.

This is the area where there's still a lot to do for MS in this gen - to try to beat Sony's 1st party production.

IMO MS should spend a billion or two on shopping some good game developers.

 

@slimebeast

I disagree. MS dissolved their internal studios at the right time (right before this economic down turn), that's a lot of employees sitting on the payroll working on 12 month + projects. The way they saw it, there is no point to keep those studios when you can outsource it to other studios (epic).

 

@CGI-Quality

Are you saying Sony 1st Party Studios have more "quality" exclusives than Nintendo and MS? Remember keywords here are 1ST Party, which doesn't include LBP or Resistence series

Ummm Insomniac is part of Sony's 1st party and Sony owns both those IPs

 



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kirby007 on 28 December 2008

so why don't we see lots of games made by sony?



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PSaiki on 28 December 2008
leo-j said:
Sony has more ip than microsoft and nintendo combined, or atleast thats what they are always saying in E3..

 

More Ips than Nintendo?

Hell no.



leo-j on 28 December 2008

@PSaiki

Yes they do...according to SCE



 

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thetonestarr on 28 December 2008

Brownie Brown, Nintendo's ex-Square dev studio, once was working on a GCN game called "Gofuku".

Go. Fuk. U.



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NJ5 on 28 December 2008
kirby007 said:
so why don't we see lots of games made by sony?

PS3 games take a long time to develop. Some studios take ages to make a game, like Guerilla Games or Polyphony Digital.

Then there are studios making things like Home and perhaps development tools / firmware?

 



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NYANKS on 28 December 2008
ShadowSoldier said:
ymeaga1n said:
Slimebeast said:
CGI-Quality said:
@ Tremble

It does.

@ slimebeast

So you're saying that MS 1st Party Studios have more"quality" exclusives than Nintendo and Sony? Remember key words here are 1ST Party, which doesn't include Gears 1 or 2.

 

 lol no. Perhaps average quality of MS studios is better, but of course their 1st party department is weak.

This is the area where there's still a lot to do for MS in this gen - to try to beat Sony's 1st party production.

IMO MS should spend a billion or two on shopping some good game developers.

 

@slimebeast

I disagree. MS dissolved their internal studios at the right time (right before this economic down turn), that's a lot of employees sitting on the payroll working on 12 month + projects. The way they saw it, there is no point to keep those studios when you can outsource it to other studios (epic).

 

@CGI-Quality

Are you saying Sony 1st Party Studios have more "quality" exclusives than Nintendo and MS? Remember keywords here are 1ST Party, which doesn't include LBP or Resistence series

Ummm Insomniac is part of Sony's 1st party and Sony owns both those IPs

 

 

 Actually, Insomniac is a second party.  This means that they are an independent company and Sony cant control them.  However, Insomniac chooses to make games only for Sony, in essence making it seem indistinguishable from a first party.  But Insomniac could actually make an XBOX game if they wanted too.