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It may have “OMG!” scrawled inexplicably on its sidebar, but Gamepro can put together a pretty solid list. Today, the site rattled off its top eight most powerful videogame studios, and we mostly agree. In no particular order, Gamepro gave the nod to:
- Epic Games
- Bungie
- Rockstar North
- Maxis Software
- EA Tiburon
- Sony Computer Entertainment
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development
Valve, Infinity Ward, and Harmonix took home runner-up ribbons.
So, can you think of anyone who’s missing? We can’t, but we’ll probably end up face-palming and saying “duh” once you guys get to commenting.
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patlike said:
I’d have Valve instead of Tiburon.
Robo_1 said:
Remind me, who are Maxis Software again?
patlike said:
Spore, The Sims, etc.
Newbie101 said:
Sim City?
patlike said:
That too
OrphanageExplosion said:
Microsoft Game Studios seems to be a massive omission. Now you could say that it is merely an umbrella publisher for lots of other game developers, but then, SCE would be as well.
id software is also a hugely notable omission. If we’re talking about power and influence, few can match Carmack’s credentials.
patlike said:
Good points, yep. BioWare’s another one.
Robo_1 said:
Cheers for the memory refresh
I’d agree with OE, Id are a hugely important dev, and their new Rage tech looks as though it could outshine the Unreal Engine in the future.
patlike said:
It’s Doom 4 I’m really looking forward to, to be honest. If it’s as big a graphical leap as they said it was at QuakeCon – and you have to believe them, really – consider me interested.
prodygee said:
Omg, not even Square Enix. T-T
Truk said:
“Microsoft Game Studios seems to be a massive omission. Now you could say that it is merely an umbrella publisher for lots of other game developers, but then, SCE would be as well.”
Um not really. MGS have half a dozen studios. SCE Europe alone have that number. SCEWWS game development capability dwarfs that of MGS.
patlike said:
Square definitely has the power. Not sure which one it would knock out from that list, though. Epic would be the obvious one, but Unreal Engine is “healthy,” to say the least.
OrphanageExplosion said:
@Truk: it’s supposed to be about power and influence, not the volume of games produced or the amount of employees – though admittedly the definition is rather vague.
Truk said:
I’d still say SCEWWS outperforms MGS in that regard.
ohsonice1959 said:
How did Nintendo make this list, I thought they were talking about about real games not watered down anime, also if they are really doing so well why are all their games being half priced? And yet Bioware, ID, UBisoft, Rare and Square Enix the people who brought you androgynous heroes.
rainer said:
This is more of a sales/top earners list then an actual who’s best so the likes of Valve, Bioware, Rare, Lionhead etc would not make this.
Truk said:
You must have a strange definiton of “best”.
Gamoc said:
Bungie shouldn’t be on there – they made Halo, and that’s it, and they don’t even own the rights to the game. All their future games have to go through MS aswell, apparently.
Blizzard are damn powerful, probably the most on the list – they do whatever the hell they want and they excel at it, and they have more fans than Jesus.
grubbstar said:
Ubi Montreal?