The most successful gaming company?

[Princeps senatus]

Then for all intents and purposes you aren't actually talking about how successful the company is. You're talking about how good the company is at producing a quality product, that is not 'success'.

Well that depends on the perspective. They are "successful" game makers. In my humble opinion that makes a company successful but to others it might be the amount of money they make.

Sure technically it's about producing a quality product but when I started this thread I didn't want to limit the responds to much (my first thread).

 

[nathan-dts]

Success in terms of monetary earnings? EA/Activision.

Success in terms of games? Naughty Dog. Jak series and Uncharted are pretty awesome.

Don't forget, the good Crash Bandicoots.

 

[Grey_Gore]

Financially, i guess it's either EA or Blizzard.

Quality-wise, probably Valve

 

[AndyFromMonday]

I'd say Ubisoft Blizzard or Valve.

 

[Pseudonym2]

I also like Bioware they seem to be on the right track (though they don't have a perfect ratio imo).

They were, right up until they sold out to EA.

Within no time at all they were mired in the kind of crap traditionally associated with EA (DRM and telling people who come across problems to piss off).

If it wasn't for GTA4 I would have said Rockstar. But GTA4 showed us that there has been a massive change there. They have completely lost their balls, and made a boring, "realistic", and uncontraversial game.

I would say Blizzard. I don't like or play WoW, but I have to acknowledge its success.

I Liked GTA IV better than the earlier ones in the series. The seriousness of the surroundings makes the chaos stand out more and, in my opinion, be more exiting. The parody was a lot sharper, often against it's own consumer base. They attacked the entire idea of the American Dream. The earlier games controversy was entirely based on the level of violence, sex, as misogamy.


Edit: Mass effect is my favorite game of this generation. I don't know about the computer version but the Xbox 360 one was great.

 

[Fraught]

I mean, Square is considerable...

Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy VI
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy X

And Chrono Cross,
Final Fantasy VIII,
FF IX,
The World Ends With You,
Dragon Quest series,
Kingdom Hearts.

Yeah, I'd say they're considerable.

 

[gigastrike]

How come only 2 people mentioned nintendo?

 

[Joeshie]

Depends on what you mean by successful; do you mean financially successful or artistically successful?

If you are talking about financially successful, then the most obvious answer right now would be Nintendo and/or Blizzard. If you are talking about artistically successful, than probably Valve seeing as how their "worst" games are still head and shoulders above the rest.

 

[sorry user name taken.]

Valve
lionhead
bungie
Quantic Dream

 

[Aratus]

Valve is on the top of my list. I loved the first Half-Life and I got Half-Life 2 with the Orange Box and it was just amazing.

Runners up on my list would be Bioware, although Neverwinter Nights is starting to die to me. And Nintendo because of childhood memories playing Super Mario, but sadly they seem to like pumping out more crap today than gold.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

Valve have sold 9.3 million copies of the original Half Life and about 6 million of Half Life 2. (I read it in a PCGamer so I can't provide the source :/) As far as I know, selling a million of pretty much anything is a financial sucess.

 

[SSoneill]

For me the greatest company has to be Bethesda for the amazing Elder Scrolls series also Fallout 3 which ruled, coming in at a close joint second place would be Valve (for Left 4 Dead) and Bungie (for the Halo series)

 

[Chaos Marine]

Valve and old school Epic.

 

[Ranooth]

Valve, EA Mythic and Nintendo (although sometimes they sadly fail)

 

[wordsmith]

Most successful: Blizzard
Best: ValVe

 

[Vlane]

Blizzard? I don't know if it is the most successful gaming company.

 

[sneakypenguin]

Ubisoft(preferably Montreal) Splintercell, beyond good and evil, all the tom clancy games, Rainbow six ghost recon, prince of persia, plus Lord knows what else.

 

[EzraPound]

And Chrono Cross,
Final Fantasy VIII,
FF IX,
The World Ends With You,
Dragon Quest series,
Kingdom Hearts.

Yeah, I'd say they're considerable.

Chrono Cross and FFVIII are not good enough to really get worked up about (FFIX is slightly better, but still not earth-shattering). Aside from which, Kingdom Hearts II was godawful, I still consider DQ an Enix property, and The World Ends With You is like nonillion other Square or SQ products since FFVII - fine, but really not that big a deal.

Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VI, and Chrono Trigger are Square's best games (DQ1 and DQ3 are good as Enix goes). FFVII was good too in the sense that it did a fair share to advance the industry, but a tedium subtly pervaded the gameplay (i.e. Square's continued use of random battles and mana systems that were just variations on the same theme) that critics didn't notice - or appear to get annoyed by - until Final Fantasy XII. Talk about a delayed reaction.

Today, Square's SNES titles get a better wrap than they deserve because fifteen year-olds hear about how good Chrono Trigger is on a GameFAQs poll then download a rom and rave about it for days because they've never played a great 16-bit game. Fact is, I couldn't tell you whether it's better than ActRaiser. Or Shining Force. Or Dragon Warrior V. Or Robotrek. Or Lufia. Or Breath of Fire.

 

[The Shade]

ValvE
I like Bioware
Cyan (Worlds)
Bungie
Bethesda is looking up, too