Metacritic’s 1st Annual Game Publisher Rankings

Comparing the 2010 releases of game publishers

A few weeks ago, we revealed our final list of 2010’s best videogames. Now, it’s time to look at which companies are responsible for those releases. Now, for the first time, we’re ranking game publishers, based on how well their games were reviewed last year.

Ranking of major publishers

Rather than try to compare smaller publishers to giant ones, we have divided all publishers into two separately ranked groups, based on the number of games they released last year. Our first group consists of major publishers, who each issued 15 or more unique titles in 2010. We have ranked these publishers in order from best overall game quality to worst, using a formula based on four factors:

1. Average Metascore for all products released in 2010
2. % of products with good reviews (Metascore of at least 75)
3. % of products with bad reviews (49 or lower; in this case, a lower % is better)
4. Number of "great" titles (Metascore of 90 or higher)

Note that the Metascore average (the first factor) counts slightly more than the other factors. (Detailed scoring information appears in a table below the rankings.)

Here is how the major publishers stacked up based on their 2010 releases:

 Read more: http://features.metacritic.com/features/2011/game-publisher-rankings-for-2010-releases/

The worst games of the best producers in 2010 (according to Metacritic)

Konami/Hudson: Deca Sports Freedom (nota média: 27)

Ubisoft: Fighters Uncaged (nota média: 31)

THQ: Truth or Lies (nota média: 33)

EA: Dead Space Ignition (nota média: 35)

Sony: Kung Fu Rider (nota média: 36)

Activision/Blizzard: Blood Drive (nota média: 40)

Namco Bandai: Clash of the Titans (nota média: 41)

Sega: Iron Man 2 (nota média: 41)

Square-Enix: Raystorm HD (nota média: 46)

Nintendo: AquaSpace (nota média: 48)

Microsoft: Fable III: Understone Pack (nota média: 50)

Take Two: Major League Baseball 2K10 for the Wii (nota média: 52)

Capcom: Dark Void (nota média: 57)