System War's Favorite Developers (VOTE NOW FOR NUMBER ONE)

According tothisthread I started, 80 people voted for their top 5, and these were the results:

Nintendo: 35

Bioware: 31

Valve: 30

Blizzard: 28

Rockstar: 22

And those our obviously our top 5...runner ups:

Naughty Dog: 14

Capcom: 12

Bethesda: 10

Konami, Insomniac: 8

Bungie, Platinum Games: 7

SCEA, Square, DICE, EA, Retro Studios: 6

Ubisoft, Rare, Sega, GSC: 5

Also Note that Retro Studios had the most honorable mentions.

VOTE NOW FOR NUMBER ONE

I Said it before and ill say it again, publisher/devloper hybrids shouldnt count

I Said it before and ill say it again, publisher/devloper hybrids shouldnt count

DroidPhysX

I Said it before and ill say it again, publisher/devloper hybrids shouldnt count

DroidPhysX

If you think Publisher/Developers should be combined, Sony would have 34 including ICO, Naughty Dog, Insomniac, and Guerilla (i didn't show developer results with less that 5 votes) and Nintendo would have 43 including Hal Laboratories and Retro Stuidos. Microsoft would have...7...lol all for Bungie, and that technically doesn't count anymore...then I would have to consider to count Rare votes which is where it would get sloppy. I think this was the best way to do it.

How is Sony that low? I thought this place was overun with Sony fans?

Square Enix.

Atlus.

How is Sony that low? I thought this place was overun with Sony fans?

Ragnarok1051

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I Said it before and ill say it again, publisher/devloper hybrids shouldnt count

XxXHottZeldaXxX

Nintendo - word, they're awesome

Bioware - eh.

Valve - They're good. I wouldn't say best though

Blizzard - I haven't played much blizzard, so no comment

Rockstar - Okay, yea they're pretty good

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Sony, Platinum Games, and Capcom. Three awesome devs :) Oh and Squaresoft.

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My number one... hmmm. It's damn hard. Gonna go with Nintendo overall. Squaresoft would be a close second, and Sony at third.

Valve. They not only make the best games ever (HL series, Portal), they also have some of the best design and business philosophies of any developer.

Valve. They not only make the best games ever (HL series, Portal), they also have some of the best design and business philosophies of any developer.

hoola

I liked Portal, TF2, L4D series, and CounterStrike series a lot more than HL series :P They're just more fun to pick up and play.

eeew valve

eeew valve

dontshackzmii

This is such an easy poll. Nintendo, obviously, the other developers really don't stand a chance I think..After Nintendo I'd say Bioware, Valve, Rockstar, and Blizzard.

I vote Blizzard.
I haven't played a Blizzard game that isn't nearly perfect. I love the way they develop their games with a "It's done when it's done" attitude.

Nintendo: I like Nintendo, though I probably wouldn't list them as my favourites. I am taking into account when a game is published (Pokemon) by them vs. developed. :roll:

Bioware: I haven't got into Bioware's games, so I can't make a descision for them yet; they seem awesome though. I'm probably going to try and pick up either Mass Effect or Dragon Age: Orgins tomorrow/Monday.

Valve: I like Valve more as a company (Steam and such is great) than a developer, though I really like DoD:S and Portal

Rockstar: I enjoy Grand Theft Auto (and RDR), but wouldn't list them as one of my favourites.

To rank them: (respect on my opinion)

1. Bioware

2. Rockstar

3. Valve

4. Blizzard

5. Nintendo

I Said it before and ill say it again, publisher/devloper hybrids shouldnt count

DroidPhysX

God forbid that they make good games and publish good games.

Anyhow my favourite out of that list would have to be Valve.

The only one in that list that even begins to match Nintendo's awesomeness, is Blizzard (Diablo II).

My biggest suprise was that Infinity Ward had a whopping total of one vote.

its hard when 2 of my most fave developers are up there R* and Nintendo

the rest i see as developers that dont know what color is

Of those in the Poll

1. Nintendo

2. Valve

3. Blizzard

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Love Bioware so much, especially this gen. The Mass Effect games are just epic and Dragon Age Origins became my new favorite game.

I vote for anyone except Rockstar

I've fallen in love with Bioware this gen because of the Mass Effect games, but I can't put them above Nintendo.

i choose blizzard cause all of their games are incredible.

Squaresoft

rockstar own all.

Of the multiple choices easily Nintendo. After that either Rare, Square Soft, or Kojima.

8) The #1 spot belongs to Rockstar 8)

Oh I missed the chance to vote for Platinum , damn , well in that case I'll vote for R*

According tothisthread I started, 80 people voted for their top 5, and these were the results:

Nintendo: 35

Bioware: 31

Valve: 30

Blizzard: 28

Rockstar: 22

And those our obviously our top 5...runner ups:

Naughty Dog: 14

Capcom: 12

Bethesda: 10

Konami, Insomniac: 8

Bungie, Platinum Games: 7

SCEA, Square, DICE, EA, Retro Studios: 6

Ubisoft, Rare, Sega, GSC: 5

Also Note that Retro Studios had the most honorable mentions.

VOTE NOW FOR NUMBER ONE

XxXHottZeldaXxX

Why are developers and publishers being lumped up like that? Retro for instance is a part of Nintendo, yet they got honorable mentions? I don't understand.

It seems like Nintendo for instance, comprised of many teams should have been scrutinized. Otherwise, as it is, even I have no problem voting for Nintendo as they are a juggernaut comprised of many different teams working to make different games on DS and Wii.

Then you have DICE and EA who's votes should have been added together.

Who would I vote for in Kojima Studios? Konami? Kojima? This isn't organized as well as it could be, imo.

I Said it before and ill say it again, publisher/devloper hybrids shouldnt count

DroidPhysX

I didn't see your post in the original thread, but I did just catch it here. I totally agree. As it stands, this is just a mess.

OP by TC : "If you think Publisher/Developers should be combined, Sony would have 34 including ICO, Naughty Dog, Insomniac, and Guerilla (i didn't show developer results with less that 5 votes) and Nintendo would have 43 including Hal Laboratories and Retro Stuidos. Microsoft would have...7...lol all for Bungie, and that technically doesn't count anymore...then I would have to consider to count Rare..."

This explains a lot. People were confused voting for individual studios (or perhaps the concept wasn't clear) in some cases and the TC didn't count the individual owned studio votes from SW users as a vote for the primary company that owns the studio. This means that we got a messed up poll as a result. If we are going to count multiple teams under an umbrella of unified developers for say Nintendo in this situation, than we should have done that for all companies. The results right now will not accurately reflect SW favorite developers.

Now, if we want to just find out Developers, then we need to get very specific, and not allow giant publishers use all their studios under them.

I appreciate what you are attempting TC, but as it stands, this won't be an accurate reflection of SW Fave devs.

▲ ...Kojima Productions. I actually dislike most of the devs on the poll. ▲

Rockstar for me....

1. Valve

2. Blizzard

3. Rockstar

The others suck.

1. Naughty Dog

2. Polyphony Digital

3. Turn 10

4. Ensemble Studios

5. Evolution Studios

I'll go with R*.