The eight most powerful game studios in the world, decided by Gamepro

nos4speed - 502 days 21 hours ago

No doubt one of the biggest players, they do so much great stuff, amazing PSN games, amazing upcoming mmo's and even more amazing exclusives.

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Winter47th - 502 days 20 hours ago

If this was distributed 5 years ago all of'em would be Japanese with EA looming its head among'em, guess they fell out'a the bandwagon.

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SaiyanFury - 502 days 18 hours ago

Gee big surprise, lots of them are MS game releasing studios. I see Gamepro isn't a fan of them

/end sarcasm.

Epic Games prefers to develop games for the 360. Epic only puts games out like once every 2-3 years or so. And EA is a publisher, not a single development studio. Insomniac puts out triple A games practically every year. In the 1.5 year PS3 lifespan they have 2 triple A titles in the original Resistance and Ratchet & Clank Future. The article doesn't include Naughty Dog, a proven studio time and time again. I would say Maxis, but all they seem to do is whore out more Sims titles all the time. And let's talk total exclusivity. SCE has the most development power of all the companies put together and has the most first party exclusives. In my opinion, SCEA has the most development power. 15 total worldwide studios is better than a HALO release, singular GTA-exclusive DLC content , or another Sims game. I'm looking at numbers and statistics for the systems, not at publishers' comments for support of a single system.

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BrotherNick - 502 days 9 hours ago

Saiyan Fury, EA has a bunch of dev studios.

Label architecture and studios

The following are the four Electronic Arts labels, with the studios that fall under each label [20]

* EA Games -- Home to the largest number of studio and development teams, this label is responsible for action-adventure, role playing, racing and combat games, marketed under the EA brand. In addition to traditional packaged-goods games, EA Games also develops massively-multiplayer online role-playing games. Led by Frank Gibeau.
o EA Redwood Shores
o EA Los Angeles
o EA Montreal
o Bioware
o DICE
o Pandemic
o Black Box
o Maxis
o Phenomic
o Criterion
o Mythic

* EA SPORTS -- Publishes all the realistic, casual, and freestyle sports-based titles from EA, including FIFA Soccer, Madden NFL, Fight Night, NBA Live, NCAA Football, NCAA March Madness, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, NHL Hockey, Nascar and Rugby. Led by Peter Moore.
o EA Tiburon (Florida)
o EA Canada (Vancouver)
o EA Sports Big (San Francisco)

* EA Casual Entertainment -- Creates and publishes casual games for gamers and non-traditional gamers. Includes EA's Pogo online service Pogo.com (online games site, with numerous EA brand tie-ins), EA Hasbro, and EA Mobile EA Mobile (mobile phone and iPod games, previously JAMDAT). Led by Kathy Vrabeck.
o EA Redwood Shores (California)
o EA Los Angeles

* "The Sims" Label -- develops and markets life-simulation games and online communities, including those with "Sims" titles. Led by Nancy Smith.
o EA Redwood Shores (California)

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socomnick - 502 days 17 hours ago

lol insomniac are pretty low tier. They come out with games every year and the games aren't very hyped. Its not that their games aren't good. Its just that they release the games during bad times you cant launch Res 2 against Gow 2 thats just stupid.

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Cenobia - 502 days 14 hours ago

Why? Gears and Resistance are on 2 different consoles. There is no reason they can't be put out together. They may be competing but PS3 owners will pick up R2, and 360 owners will get Gears. If you own both you're likely to get both.

There is a significant amount of hype for R2. If you only own an xbox you may not see it, but it is there. I honestly don't see a lot of hype for Gears, but that's because I don't have an Xbox. I don't doubt its there.

R2 has a ridiculous amount of ARG's going on in multiple websites. If anything, I'm starting to worry that it will be over hyped. I agree that Microsoft usually advertises better (like on TV), but let me assure you that people are very much anticipating the release of Resistance 2.

And Insomniac makes great games, and aren't "low tier." I consider them one of the most important developers for Sony. There games are always of high quality, and consistently score high on all gaming websites.

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nbsmatambo - 502 days 7 hours ago

woa wait what lol. Insomniac games arent very hyped =o. and yes i do think that R2 will do well against GeoW2. GeoW2 might outsell it but thats just bcuz of the 20M pple with 360's, but i think R2 will have a better attach rate and better reviews =D

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KBDuB - 502 days 17 hours ago

Uhm, you do realize that Bungie has made MORE than Halo.. right?

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dude_uk - 502 days 17 hours ago

really?

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Cartesian3D - 502 days 16 hours ago

I know they made some other titles (Oni nothin more than 7,myth?? was a good series but 8 at best not AAA,there is only one Myth version that was AAA on PC in 1997!) .. but their main title was HALO for many years nothin more

for example IW made CoD games(1,2 and 4).. but just compare CoD 1 and 2.. both were absolutely AAA and GOTY in their genre .. without HUGE hype like HALO series .. thats the POWER

then compare CoD4 with 1 and 2 , Whole new engine,art direction,level design,environment,gameplay(MP ) ... etc

EIDT: BTW compare Oni character with halo .. lol there is many similarities (its not a bad thing, but it means their Art designers are out of Ideas)

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SaiyanFury - 502 days 18 hours ago

EA is a publisher, not a developer.

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BrotherNick - 502 days 9 hours ago

Fail....EA owns development studios as well. They can publish from outside their studios of course.

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mikeslemonade - 502 days 19 hours ago

I agree with this list.

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soul899er - 502 days 19 hours ago

ditto, lol and i wouldnt be surprised if they bribed a site to say they are the most powerful

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monks - 502 days 16 hours ago

i would also semi agree with that list apart from nintendo above sony its not a fanboy comment before i get that :-) i only say it because of the number of good first partys they have

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IaMs12 - 502 days 3 hours ago

CAPCOM is good they made a lot of great games but most are mediocre...hyped up to much IMO.. other probably enjoy their games a lot more then me

Ive always like the Time Crisis games and fighting games...

and 1 thing that just gets annoying with CAPCOM is EVERY game i know of CAPCOM has a time limit in it lol its cool in some games but VERY annoying and irrating in others... they put it in some games that simply do not need the timer... kinda makes you rush through and not enjoy as much but sametime makes fun lol wish it was just a option but most arent..

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monks - 502 days 16 hours ago

some nice points there to reply to your question

what two of these companies would you want to survive a nuclear holocaust?

i would persoanlly pick

EA for number of games they do and sony for the same point

my runner up companys would be Blizzard i love wow and i guess SE because i enjoy rpg even if they are not on the list

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Kira83 - 502 days 15 hours ago

I'd like to agree with this one but thier games are too under appreciated and far between time wise.

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ikiru3385 - 502 days 18 hours ago

sony has most first party game development studios. they make games too.

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KBDuB - 502 days 17 hours ago

I personally don't believe Square-Enix should be considered one of the best in the world. They are good, yes. But, I don't consider them a top ten studio.

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KBDuB - 502 days 17 hours ago

You do realize that Bungie has made MORE than just Halo, right?

And, it also seems as if your listing your favorite studios. It's there opinion on who's the best.. let it be.

Heard of The Sims? That's Maxis.

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