Next-Gen's second annual list of the industry's biggest publishers focuses on industry change, as the challenges and opportunities of the hardware transition begin to reflect in company finances. Plenty of statistics and analysis detail the emerging winners and losers…
Here is the list, see the article for the details.
1. Electronic Arts
2. Nintendo
3. Activision
4. THQ
5. Take Two Interactive
6. Ubisoft
7. Sony
8. Vivendi Games
9. Microsoft
10. LucasArts
11. Namco Bandai
12. Sega
13. Midway
14. Atari (Infogrames)
15. Square Enix
16. Konami
17. Disney Interactive Studios
18. Capcom
19. Eidos (SCi Entertainment)
20. Majesco
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
The majority of the posts that I see on N4G are negative towards EA. Always saying they make subpar games and rehashes every year.
Who is buying these games?
I think companies like EA stagnate the industry. And I think that it is hilarious that their new President stated that their are too many sequals and unoriginal games. I think he applied for the wrong job.
if you ask me Ubisoft needs to work on there Development with the Games and get all the Gliches out before they send there stuff out
is a GIANT. That's the only way I can think of it. They have lots of Money, and they have been swallowing smaller development studios since the 90's. They have a lot of franchises, as well they are big enough to publish, lots of games from smaller devs and other studios. I watched a special on EA studios, and man they are big. They continue to eat studios up.
All the top publishers are on there. I thought Ubi would be higher, and I didn't think MS publish many games but the more money you have the better.
I like the games and don't really mind what company puts out the game, but EA does have a good reputation, they just need a few more ideas, simalar to most other companies.
And where is Sierra, correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they make best selling Half-Life