2006's Top 20 Game Publishers Ranked

simoniker writes "Game Developer magazine's Top 20 Publishers list for 2006 has been published online — the list from the industry magazine ranks publishers by using multiple factors, including revenue, average game review score, and anonymous feedback from game industry insiders. In the 2006 version of the poll, which looks at software produced (and doesn't factor in hardware), Electronic Arts came out on top, closely followed by Nintendo, with Buena Vista Games and NCSoft making first entries into the Top 20."

EA is the best game publisher?

[0xdeadbeef]

Geez, that's nice. I bet by their metric WalMart is the best place to shop, McDonald's is the best place to eat, and MySpace is the best way to have a presence on the Internet.

Re:EA is the best game publisher?

[MrAnnoyanceToYou]

Looks to be ordered by revenue. Shows that games are just like movies - quality is not king.... Sad, unfortunate, unsurprising.

Forgot their target audience?

[Jartan]

I found this pretty suprising from gamastura. For a "game developer's" top 20 you'd think it would be about either who's good to work for or about who does a good job of encouraging good game development.

In either case EA would obviously be near the bottom of the list.