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What Publishers Make the Best Games? - Game Scoop

IGN - Discussing a recent ranking of the best-reviewed big game publishers.

mikeslemonade3396d ago

Fact:
1.EA
2.Activision
3.Ubisoft
4. Sony
5. Nintendo
6. Microsoft

Don't give me that "Nintendo has the highest meta score" argument. The criteria for best game is just by the sheer amount of great games. So year in and year out those are the publishers in that order that bring out the most great games.

Also games are graded on different standards. Don't believe me?? How does Dragon Age beat out Bayonetta 2, MK8, and Smash for the most game of th year awards? So you people picking Nintendo are shallow if all you do is pick the highest meta score.

Concertoine3396d ago

Lmao, says the guy preaching GOTY awards.

You shouldnt let any awards or scores dictate your favorite games. One of my favs is Catherine and it only got decent reviews with a few nominations.

IGiveHugs2NakedWomen3396d ago

Popular and best selling games doesn't necessarily mean "Best" games...

In terms of the most highly acclaimed games, Take Two Interactive, Nintendo, Sony lead the pack.

3-4-53396d ago

Britney Spears had the best selling album one year.

Doesn't mean that album WAS actually the best though.

* It's kind of pathetic hating on Nintendo. It's = to picking on the nerdy kid who just wants to go play his games.

Who cares if all the "cool" kids don't like it.

Realplaya3396d ago

What did Nintendo do to you?

Loadedklip3396d ago

From your own post ...

Dragon Age = 1 great game

Bayonetta, MK8, Smash = 3 great games

Then you wonder why Nintendo won for best overall publisher??? lol

DoggyBiscuit3396d ago

@Realplaya he blames Nintendo for not getting laid

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Big_Game_Hunters3399d ago

1.Nintendo
2.opinion
3.opinion
4.opinion
5.opinion

Loadedklip3396d ago

100% correct. Nintendo is the only objective correct answer.

After that ... it's truly debatable and highly opinionated.

Knightofelemia3399d ago (Edited 3399d ago )

Nintendo
Sega
Squaresoft not SquareEnix
Old Capcom
Sucker Punch
Naughty Dog
Bungie
Namco
Qauntic Dream
RockStar
Old EA
Old Activision
Level 5
Atlus
Banpresto
Koei
Temco
SNK
Old Atari
HighMoon Studios I love their Transformers games.

WeaseL3397d ago

Its publishers a lot of those are developers

NewZealander3398d ago

if we are talking constant quality, its gotta be nintendo hands down.

Two-Face3396d ago

And Valve... Half-Life, Portal, Counter-Strike, Left4Dead, Team Fortress 2 and the list goes on. Not to mention all of the DLC is free and good.

They take their time with the games and most of them are revolutionary like Half Life and Portal.

WeAreLegion3396d ago

But Mario & Sonic, Game & Wario, and Wii Party U...

It's like everyone forgets Nintendo actually does make crappy games sometimes.

deafdani3396d ago

Yeah, sometimes.

Yet their quality records is arguably consistently higher than any other developer out there.

Metallox3396d ago

Constant quality, dude.

"if we are talking constant quality, its gotta be nintendo hands down."

He's not saying all Nintendo games are perfect.

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randomass1713397d ago (Edited 3397d ago )

Nintendo has been on a roll sure but there are some other publishers putting out some quality stuff too. Warner gave us Shadow of Mordor and that game is fantastic. :)

Yodagamer3396d ago (Edited 3396d ago )

I'd agree with warner if they hadn't put out the ps3/xbox 360 port of shadow of mordor. That port was horrible. I feel bad for anybody who bought that half-baked port.

randomass1713396d ago

yeah I heard the same. I only played the PS4 version because I heard the PS3 version was really dumbed down. On PS4 and I think Xbox and PC the game was phenomenal though.

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Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

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Profchaos23h ago

Great news it shows that Nintendo intends to continue developing ports of AAA games to its next gen platform

H916h ago

Buying studios from embracer now is a great deal, they must be dirt cheap at this point, Nintendo is a opportunist, they wait until someone fall so they get their best deal

OtterX10h ago

That is some serious brain gymnastics you have going on there. 🤔

H97h ago

I didn't do any gymnastics I can assure you, honestly I don't know why you think that, not hating I seriously don't see why you think that

ZeekQuattro5h ago

Yeah I don't know where that came from. It's rare for Nintendo to flat out aquire studios. Guess they were trying to be edgy but why flex on this studio. 🤣

banger8816h ago

I hope someone buys Piranha Bytes, their future isn't looking good right now. I love their RPGs, they're janky as f***, but they have heart and soul.

Relientk7712h ago

Nintendo saw the Mortal Kombat 1 Switch port and were like, "Yeah, these guys are worth acquiring."

You can't make this crap up lol

Profchaos11h ago

Mortal Kombat 1 was never going to port well I'm sure they told wb it wasn't going to work but wb wants that sweet sweet 140 million install base

In the end wb approved the project cleared the milestones and allowed the product to release

SonOfOsiris7h ago

Yeah this guys ported MK11 which is great, Hogwarts Legacy which is great, and MK1 is now ok, play it every day

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Microsoft to Add Copilot AI to Video Games

Microsoft recently revealed its plans to incorporate Copilot directly into video games, with Minecraft being the first showcased example.

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Fishy Fingers1d 1h ago (Edited 1d 1h ago )

F*** AI

"Hey Copilot, what's a good meme to prove I dislike AI".... https://giphy.com/clips/sou...

Einhander19721d 1h ago

Two trillion dollar company that just can't wait to put as many people possible out of work as fast as possible.

It feels like every single thing they do is making gaming worse and destroying the industry.

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darthv725h ago

....you know it takes people to program the AI.... right? It isnt like it is sentient. We haven't reach skynet level of situation or anywhere close to the matrix just yet.

That's next Thursday.

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CaptainFaisal14h ago

Why all the hate? Im actually excited about this! Always wanted this kind of immersion, and an AI companion with me all the time helping me out knowing the status of my skills/inventory/progress and giving me tips on the best approach or how to craft something specific is game changing for the industry.

Hate all you want about AI, but this is just the start and I can see the potential already. You wont be complaining in the next 5-10 years about this, but rather complain if a game hasn’t implemented it.

MrDead14h ago

Yes we can't wait for the work of others to be used without the need to pay them so that MS can profit even more from the people they fire.

I_am_Batman14h ago(Edited 14h ago)

There is no chance I'd ever use something like this, especially if it's not part of the core game design, but a layer on top of it. It's way too much handholding. Many games already feel like busy work, because they don't let the player figure things out on their own. Having a real-time interactive guide defeats the purpose of playing the game in the first place in my opinion.

If this were to become the standard like you predict, we'll see more and more video games get away with bad design, because people will just be used to ask for help from the AI companion anyway.

Number1TailzFan13h ago

Well Nintendo don't need this with some of their games these days, with invincible characters, items, easy bosses etc.. they do the hand holding built in

helicoptergirl13h ago

Takes "hand holding" in games to a whole new level.

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There are no "thoughtful" ads in video games, EA

There are no thoughtful ads in Video Games, EA. Leave them be.

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northpaws4d ago

I think the only type of games that can gets away with it would be sport games, having those sponsors ads on the side like on real life.

But don't put freaking Doritos ads in Star Wars or something, it breaks the immersion. If it is a pop-up ads, then big no.

Hofstaderman4d ago

EA can thoughtfully eff themselves.

Makersbreath24d ago

EA coming back for the crown of being perceived as the worst company in gaming.

Chocoburger3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

One of my favorite series is the THPS franchise, and it was packed with ads, but it didn't bother me. Posters for skateboard companies, JEEP, and Nokia phones. It did sort of fit in with the game world, but that was the past, these days ad would be intentionally intrusive or unskippable loading screen type of imagery. Ugh, I know EA would do it in a horrible fashion. Screw them.