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[Musashi Wins!]

Great issue. Has the postmortem this month of RE4 by Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, who was the lead real-time cinematics director for the game. Ton of interesting info.

Help wanted ads for Retro and NST :lol

The publisher ranking is really cool...it ranks 6 factors and gives an overall score...annual turnover, number of releases, average review score, quality of producers, reliability of milestone payments and the quality of staff pay and perks. Some interesting info for all the publishers for potential canidates.

The Ranking:

1. EA
2. Activision
3. Microsoft Game Studios
4. Nintendo
5. Sony Computer Entertainment
6. Ubisoft
7. Konami
8. THQ
9. Sega Sammy Holdings
10. Take Two Interactive
11. Namco
12. Vivendi Universal Games
13. Atari
14. SCI/ Eidos
15. Capcom
16. Square Enix
17. Bandai
18. Codemaster
19. Midway
20. Lucasarts

 

[ThunderEmperor]

nintneod should be number 2, overall sales should be

1-EA
2- Nintendo
3- Activision

then the rest of those bastards

 

[Musashi Wins!]

nintneod should be number 2, overall sales should be

1-EA
2- Nintendo
3- Activision

then the rest of those bastards

It's not based purely on sales...as I state above.

 

[Fuzzy]

The publisher ranking is really cool...it ranks 6 factors and gives an overall score...annual turnover, number of releases, average review score, quality of producers, reliability of milestone payments and the quality of staff pay and perks. Some interesting info for all the publishers for potential canidates.

Explains why Nintendo isn't higher?

 

[AniHawk]

Sega in the top 10? How?

 

[Beowvlf]

I'm surprised Microsoft Game Studios is so high, especially considering these categories: annual turnover, number of releases and average review scores.

You'd think their astronomical losses would shoot 'em in the foot right off the bat, and it's not as if they release that many titles each year, nor are many of 'em very good. I've no idea how they determine quality of producers though, and I have no frakkin' idea what the hell 'reliability of milestone payments' means.

I guess they pay their employees in gold bullion. No other explanation really.

 

[Gek54]

Sega in the top 10? How?

Sega has been doing alot of publishing of non sega games.

 

[hadareud]

I'm surprised Microsoft Game Studios is so high, especially considering these categories: annual turnover, number of releases and average review scores.

You'd think their astronomical losses would shoot 'em in the foot right off the bat, and it's not as if they release that many titles each year, nor are many of 'em very good. I've no idea how they determine quality of producers though, and I have no frakkin' idea what the hell 'reliability of milestone payments' means.

I guess they pay their employees in gold bullion. No other explanation really.

Head over to gamerankings and check how the 2005 & 2004 MGS releases rank. You'd be surprised I guess. Also, I'm pretty sure that MS makes money off those releases, it's the hardware they're losing money on ...

 

[Musashi Wins!]

I'm surprised Microsoft Game Studios is so high, especially considering these categories: annual turnover, number of releases and average review scores.

You'd think their astronomical losses would shoot 'em in the foot right off the bat, and it's not as if they release that many titles each year, nor are many of 'em very good. I've no idea how they determine quality of producers though, and I have no frakkin' idea what the hell 'reliability of milestone payments' means.

I guess they pay their employees in gold bullion. No other explanation really.

They do have very high pay. Quality of producers is based on a confidential survey that is filled out every year online by developers. MS Studios has a higher avg. review score than both Sony and Nintendo if you figure in all of their releases.