Which company has the strongest IPs?

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Other than Nintendo.

I'm talking about the whole company's list of IPs collective.

Is it Microsoft, with Halo and Gears? Activision Blizzard with Call of Duty and World of Warcraft? EA with all their IPs and EA Sports?

I was thinking about if Sony's All-Stars catches on, what other companies might try to make their own version as well, which led to me wondering this.
 
Nintendo and Activision Blizzard (more than just Warcraft and Call of Duty, also Diablo, Starcraft, etc). I'm not sure if I'd count EA, in theory any other company could put down the cash for the licenses, no? They rent rather than own them.

By currently relevant stuff at least. Capcom, Konami, Sega, and many others have great IP they haven't used meaningfully.
 
Other than Nintendo, going to have to go with Sony. Uncharted, God of War, Ratchet, Infamous, etc... They've got a lot of great stuff.
 
I'd count Sony higher than Nintendo now, to be honest.

Uncharted, Starhawk, inFamous, Killzone, LittleBigPlanet, Gran Turismo, etc. That's a very impressive first-party list of games.

Next would be EA. I know a lot of people here don't like EA much, but Dead Space, Mass Effect, Battlefield, Medal of Honor, etc? That's a powerhouse lineup, too.

Weakest for me would be Microsoft. Halo, Forza, Fable...and what else? Gears of War? Not even counting that one considering its Epic's more than theirs.
 
Despite the fact Capcom pisses me off to no end, I look at my shelf and I see their games more than anyone else's.

Devil May Cry
Resident Evil
Street Fighter
Lost Planet
Marvel vs Capcom
Dino Crisis
Onimusha

So for me, it's Capcom.

As mentioned above, Sony rules where first party IP's are concerned. I don't care for Nintendo so...
 
I feel like Capcom has the strongest IPs, but they're just horrible at managing them.

Street Fighter
Megaman
Breath of Fire
Monster Hunter
Devil May Cry
Okami
Viewtiful Joe
Resident Evil
Dead Rising
God Hand
Ace Attorney
Ghosts and Goblins

I could go on for a while. They have so many great IPs, but just don't know what the hell to do with most of them, and their best developers have left.
 
Blizzard or Sony as a whole. Although Blizzard is Vivendi, which is even biger and also great. So Sony or Vivendi. There's variety, blockbusters and niche games as well.
 
Take-Two, Microsoft, Activison, Ubisoft and EA all have at least 2 or 3 high selling IPs. Based on sheer number of IPs, it's Sony. Although, EA has a lot of them as well.
 
First thing that came to mind was Valve & Blizzard.

With ActiBlizzard its just a colossal monster.


I wouldn't call Sony's IPs strong even though some of them have gotten universal acclaim but lower than expectation sales.
 
Activision with Call of Duty most obviously. Bigger then anything Nintendo has even.

Also Ubisoft with Just Dance.



Sony only has Gran Turismo as an IP of that "calibre".
 
Activision Blizzard, probably by a landslide

Not only do you have Blizzard's
Diablo
Warcraft
Starcraft

But you have Activision's
Call of Duty
Skylanders

All massive and huge IPs
 
Metalmurphy said:
Activision with Call of Duty most obviously. Bigger then anything Nintendo has even.
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Um... not really. Equivalent perhaps, on some level, but not beyond.

EDIT: I guess if you factor in how often they come out and how well each one sells... I could live with that.
 
In terms of sales, most likely EA. In terms of quality probably either Capcom or Sony.

I only thought about that for about 5 seconds though, so i'm probably miles off.
 
Aside from Nintendo

Would say Activision
Then Ubisoft... I know odd, but Just Dance and Assassin's Creed are both monster franchises. Then they have the Tom Clancy stuff (Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon), The Rabbids franchise (which has waned but still does well for them)
 
jonny_boi said:
Forgot the Wii ___ series and New Super Mario Bros. series and the Mario Kart series?
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No, he's actually arguably right. COD comes out every year and sells a shit-ton. We cannot say the same thing for NSMB, Mario Kart, or the Wii ____ titles.
 
Outside of Nintendo, Bandai-Namco hands down has some of the strongest IP's in the industry and not just a few, and they are very good at maintaining them over even decades.
 
Vinci said:
No, he's actually arguably right. COD comes out every year and sells a shit-ton. We cannot say the same thing for NSMB, Mario Kart, or the Wii ____ titles.
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There's two of these coming out this year. So four of these games within six years is a lot. And Nintendo could make it a yearly franchise and still have it sell a ton. Mario is a stronger IP than Call of Duty.
 
jonny_boi said:
There's two of these coming out this year. So four of these games within six years is a lot. And Nintendo could make it a yearly franchise and still have it sell a ton. Mario is a stronger IP than Call of Duty.
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Does each one sell as well as the prior ones or better? That's going to be the moment of truth.

EDIT: Yes, I agree that Mario is a stronger IP - but it feels like it's actually many IPs under an umbrella. Because there are many people who would happily pay money for NSMB style Mario games but wouldn't touch the 3D stuff at all, Mario or no.
 
Since the OP excludes Nintendo, I assume he's talking about mindshare?

I would say Sega is number 2 easy. There's a better chance an average person on the street will know sonic before they know Drake, Kratos, Marcus, master chief, etc.
 
jonny_boi said:
There's two of these coming out this year. So four of these games within six years is a lot. And Nintendo could make it a yearly franchise and still have it sell a ton. Mario is a stronger IP than Call of Duty.
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New Super Mario Bros. versus Call of Duty is fair competition. The broad term Mario is just not fair. Like 30 franchises tied to it.

But New Super Mario Bros. Wii Sports. Mario Kart. Pokemon Color. Those four specific game franchises. What publisher had 4 mammouth properties like that.
 
KageMaru said:
Since the OP excludes Nintendo, I assume he's talking about mindshare?

I would say Sega is number 2 easy. There's a better chance an average person on the street will know sonic a before they know Drake, Kratos, Marcus, master chief, etc.
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There's even a better chance that they've heard of World of Warcraft or Call of Duty.
 
After Nintendo?

Sony for my taste

Uncharted
God of War
Jak and Daxter
Gran Turismo
InFamous
Wipeout
Little Big Planet
Ratchet and Clank

It's very diverse.

Followed by Capcom.
 
It still always surprises me that Skylanders is so big. If not for GAF I'm not sure I would see it anywhere or have even heard of it.
 
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