According to a new Forbes report, Nintendo is the sixth most reputable company in the world, beating out its console rivals Sony and Microsoft. 

The firm Reputation Institute rated over 1000 companies for the report and placed Microsoft at #30 and Sony at #126, although it is notable to remember that Nintendo is the only purely videogame company in the list. 

Using 65,000 online interviews from interviewees in 25 countries, each company was given a "pulse" rating from 1 to 100, with 100 being the peak of reputation "strength." 

Nintendo scored a very high 81.63, while Microsoft scored a 78.05 and Sony had a decently high 72.21. Year-on-year, Sony fell while Microsoft rose. Nintendo was a new addition to the list. 

Possibly surprising, the top ranked company is Ferraro the maker of the extremely popular Ferrero Rocher chocolates. Furniture maker Ikea finished second and Johnson & Johnson came in third.

Link: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/17928.cfm

Wow, Nintendo was 32nd in the Top 100 Most Valuable Brandz (Worldwide) this year and now this. Wii and DS might be the biggest thing yet for the company as it had never seen stocks this high especially higher than MS and Sony and 2nd Most Valuable Band by Forbes in Japan. But I still can't believe Ferraro came in first even though I love them...ah I think I give up my copy of NBA Live 09 for Ferraro Rocher!!!

AMAZING!!!

posted on 11 May 2009 15:31 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz |

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But it's still quite impressive, and I never knew Nintendo was the 32nd most valuable brand, cool.

Nintendo is a great company i would love working on it, they arent that big but they know how to make good stuff, they have good employee treatment and lots of smart people working behind them

Here is the link to the top 100 list...

http://www.millwardbrown.com/Sites/optimor/Media/Pdfs/en/BrandZ/BrandZ-2009-Report.pdf

If you scroll down to page 9 you can find the Top 100 list...Sony isn't on it....

Also Scroll down to page 24 for Gaming Console Brand Values....

I just gave you these page numbers if you only wanna see the main video game stuff...24 is all video game and page 9 is top 100 list...