Which country puts out the best games - UK, Japan, US, CA? List inside

(Note; in the poll, "England" should be replaced with "The UK")

For this list: I didn't count any ports from past gens. Every other AAA+ game/developer should be on there.

This list doesn't exist to tell you which country's output is better but is here to help you develop your opinion

Canada - AAA+ developers to deliver this gen: 4 (0 GOTY winners)

Total AAA+ Games: - 7

Bioware - Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect (2008 version)

Ubisoft Montreal - Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed II

EA Sports - FIFA 10

EA Canada - NHL 09

UK - AAA+ developers to deliver this gen: 6 (0 GOTY winners)

Total AAA+ Games: - 11

Rockstsar North/Leeds/etc. - Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Grand Theft Auto expansions

Criterion Games - Burnout 3, Burnout Paradise, Burnout Legends

Codemasters - DIRT 2

Rare - Perfect Dark Zero

Rockstar S - Batman: Arkham Asylum

Media Molecule - Littlebigplanet

Japan - AAA+ developers to deliver this gen: 17 (3 GOTY winners)

Total AAA+ Games: - 24

Nintendo - Nintendogs, Super Mario Galaxy (GOTY winner),The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, New Super Mario Bros.

Intelligent Systems - Advance Wars: Dual Strike, WarioWare: Smooth Moves

Square Enix - The World Ends With You, Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core

Atlus - SMT: Persona 4, SMT: Devil Survivor

Capcom - Street Fighter IV

HAL Labs - Super Smash Bros. Wii

From Software - Demon's Souls (GOTY winner)

Konami - Winning Soccer World Eleven 9

Kojima Studios - Metal Gear Solid 4, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops

Namcai Bando Games - Tekken: Dark Resurrection

platinumgames - Bayonetta

Alphadream - Mario and Luigi 3

SCEJ - Patapon

Grasshopper Manu. - No More Heroes

Team Ninja - Ninja Gaiden 2 Sigma

Q-Ent. - Lumines

Level 5 - Professor Layton

United States - AAA+ developers to deliver this gen: 25 (1 GOTY winner)

Total AAA+ Games: - 37

Valve Corp. - The Orange Box, Lead 4 Dead 2, Portal

Blizzard - World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusasde, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

Bethesda - Fallout 3, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

Firaxis Games - Civlization IV, Civlization Revolution

Infinity Ward - Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty 6

Ready At Dawn - God of War: Chains of Olympus, Daxter PSP

Bungie - Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST

Epic Games - Gears of War, Gears of War 2

Turn 10 - Forza Motorsport 2, Forza Motorsport 3

Harmonix: Rock Band, The Beatles Rock Band

Stardock - Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar

Sucker Punch - inFamous

EA Tiburon - Tiger Woods PGA Golf 2010

Santa Monica - God of War III

Naughty Dog - Uncharted 2

Artoon - Yoshi's Island DS

Monolith Productions - F.E.A.R.

Maxis - The Sims 3

SCE San Diego - MLB 09: The Show

Visceral Games - Dead Space

Insomniac - Resistance 2

2D Boy - World of Goo

Ironclad Games - Sins of a Solar Empire

EA LA - Command & Conquer 3: TW

Reflexive Ent. - Wik & Fable of Souls

Australia - AAA+ developers to deliver this gen: 2 (0 GOTY winners)

Total AAA+ Games: - 2

Infinity Interactive - Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords

Irrational Games - Bioshock

For this generation Japan, can't say I care about their "AAA" games though.

I guess I'll go with the US, though I think you should expand it to US/Canada, because you're missing BioWare, and DICE, to name only a couple.

Japan followed by America. There's only one game on that list that I like from Britian - GTA IV. :) But didn't they make Fable? Or is that UK?Mr_Cumberdale

[QUOTE="Mr_Cumberdale"]Japan followed by America. There's only one game on that list that I like from Britian - GTA IV. :) But didn't they make Fable? Or is that UK?WAIW

Then why is Perfect Dark Zero up there?

Japan seems to be what I play the most in terms of games.

[QUOTE="WAIW"]

[QUOTE="Mr_Cumberdale"]Japan followed by America. There's only one game on that list that I like from Britian - GTA IV. :) But didn't they make Fable? Or is that UK?Yandere

Then why is Perfect Dark Zero up there?

[QUOTE="Yandere"]

[QUOTE="WAIW"] Fable was developed by Lionhead Studios which is located somewhere in the UK (Don't know where though). It didn't score AAA, which is why you don't see it on the list

DarkLink77

Then why is Perfect Dark Zero up there?

Ah, I was thinking of the new Perfect Dark that scored a 7 something.

I'll take US with a side of Canada please :D

Well first of Rockstar North Isn't in England it's in Scotland, I think you meant to say UK in the poll not England.

Secondly Bioshock is a debatable Australia instead of America.

Thirdy, Why no Canada Mass Effect, Assasins Creed, Fifa(Is this 9+?) etc.

Apart from that im going to say America but not by much.

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"][QUOTE="Yandere"]

Then why is Perfect Dark Zero up there?

Yandere

Ah, I was thinking of the new Perfect Dark that scored a 7 something.

I guess I'll go with the US, thoug I think you should expand it to US/Canada, because you're missing BioWare, and DICE, to name only a couple.

DarkLink77

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"]

I guess I'll go with the US, thoug I think you should expand it to US/Canada, because you're missing BioWare, and DICE, to name only a couple.

WAIW

Replace UK with Europe and other with Canada.

Well first of Rockstar North Isn't in England it's in Scotland, I think you meant to say UK in the poll not England.

Secondly Bioshock is a debatable Australia instead of America.

Thirdy, Why no Canada Mass Effect, Assasins Creed, Fifa(Is this 9+?) etc.

Apart from that im going to say America but not by much.

MattDistillery

[QUOTE="WAIW"][QUOTE="DarkLink77"]

I guess I'll go with the US, thoug I think you should expand it to US/Canada, because you're missing BioWare, and DICE, to name only a couple.

Yandere

Replace UK with Europe and other with Canada.

Go Australia! :P

In all seriousness, my opinion backs the raw numbers and though it hasn't typically been this way in the past but Western devs (which for me extends to Britain, Australia, and Canada (isn't Bioware based in Canada, I forget)) are superior to Japanese and Asian developers. But for which country, I still think the U.S. is doing the best job, I still have a hard swallowing GS's judgment on DS being 2009's GOTY. It's great, but U2 is so much more deserving.

Yea, Canada's got a handful of good developers. Guess I'll edit it in somehowWAIW

Replace UK with Europe and other with Canada.

Japan for me 95% of the games which I played this generation and other generations were from there.

For this list: I didn't count any ports from past gens. Every other AAA+ game/developer should be on there.

This list doesn't exist to tell you which country's output is better but is here to help you develop your opinion

Britain - AAA+ developers to deliver this gen: 6 (0 GOTY winners)

Total AAA+ Games: - 11

Rockstsar North/Leeds/etc. - Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Grand Theft Auto expansions

Criterion Games - Burnout 3, Burnout Paradise, Burnout Legends

Codemasters - DIRT 2

Rare - Perfect Dark Zero

Rockstar S - Batman: Arkham Asylum

Media Molecule - Littlebigplanet

Japan - AAA+ developers to deliver this gen: 17 (3 GOTY winners)

Total AAA+ Games: - 24

Nintendo - Nintendogs, Super Mario Galaxy (GOTY winner),The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, New Super Mario Bros.

Intelligent Systems - Advance Wars: Dual Strike, WarioWare: Smooth Moves

Square Enix - The World Ends With You, Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core

Atlus - SMT: Persona 4, SMT: Devil Survivor

Capcom - Street Fighter IV

HAL Labs - Super Smash Bros. Wii

From Software - Demon's Souls (GOTY winner)

Konami - Winning Soccer World Eleven 9

Kojima Studios - Metal Gear Solid 4, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops

Namcai Bando Games - Tekken: Dark Resurrection

platinumgames - Bayonetta

Alphadream - Mario and Luigi 3

SCEJ - Patapon

Grasshopper Manu. - No More Heroes

Team Ninja - Ninja Gaiden 2 Sigma

Q-Ent. - Lumines

Level 5 - Professor Layton

United States - AAA+ developers to deliver this gen: 26 (1 GOTY winner)

Total AAA+ Games: - 38

Valve Corp. - The Orange Box, Lead 4 Dead 2, Portal

Blizzard - World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusasde, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

Bethesda - Fallout 3, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

Firaxis Games - Civlization IV, Civlization Revolution

Infinity Ward - Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty 6

Ready At Dawn - God of War: Chains of Olympus, Daxter PSP

Bungie - Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST

Epic Games - Gears of War, Gears of War 2

Turn 10 - Forza Motorsport 2, Forza Motorsport 3

Harmonix: Rock Band, The Beatles Rock Band

Stardock - Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar

Sucker Punch - inFamous

EA Tiburon - Tiger Woods PGA Golf 2010

Santa Monica - God of War III

Naughty Dog - Uncharted 2

Artoon - Yoshi's Island DS

Monolith Productions - F.E.A.R.

Maxis - The Sims 3

SCE San Diego - MLB 09: The Show

Visceral Games - Dead Space

Insomniac - Resistance 2

2D Boy - World of Goo

2K Marin - Bioshock

Ironclad Games - Sins of a Solar Empire

EA LA - Command & Conquer 3: TW

Reflexive Ent. - Wik & Fable of Souls

Australia - AAA+ developers to deliver this gen: 1 (0 GOTY winners)

Total AAA+ Games: - 1

Infinity Interactive - Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords

WAIW

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"][QUOTE="Yandere"]

Replace UK with Europe and other with Canada.

funsohng

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"][QUOTE="Yandere"]

Replace UK with Europe and other with Canada.

funsohng

I didn't say you were. I think grouping Europe together is a great idea, too, because it makes it easier.

I'm doing it based on geography, which influences what types of games are made. Western developers make western games, but there's a difference in the mindset of NA studios and European studios, and that has to be taken into account. I was not trying to do it by nationality and I'm certainly not trying to offend anyone, especially my northern neighbors. Looking back, that was an extremely poorly worded post. Would North America make you feel better?

Overall, I think NA developers put out the best, however Nintendo make Mario, Zelda, and Metroid, therefore Japan wins by default.

The UK and Japan have developed AAAA's this gen, whereas America has not .... therefore it loses :P

Missing Canada: Prince of Persia, Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands, Assassins Creed, Assassins Creed 2...

Phazevariance

DICE are swedish, not canadian. Only counting AAA games is also a little silly, and makes the list unrepresentative of reality. 8.5 is not a worthless game.

DICE are swedish, not canadian. Ninja-Bear

i gues England and Italy are the same too...

Phazevariance

Only counting AAA games is also a little silly, and makes the list unrepresentative of reality. Ninja-Bear

[QUOTE="Phazevariance"]

i gues England and Italy are the same too...

Ninja-Bear

[QUOTE="Ninja-Bear"][QUOTE="Phazevariance"]

i gues England and Italy are the same too...

WAIW

The poll is also faulty as it lists 'England' rather than Britian; many of the games you listed aren't english.Ninja-Bear

I really can't think of the last American game I liked, maybe Valve?

Canada

Bioware

Relic

Ubisoft Montreal

Sweden

DICE

Massive Entertainment

UK

Creative Essembly

[QUOTE="WAIW"][QUOTE="Ninja-Bear"] You say this yet the two are lumped together with dozens of other countries under the name 'europe' all the time by americans. 'Oh we visited europe on tuesday'.Ninja-Bear

Japan followed by America. There's only one game on that list that I like from Britian - GTA IV. :) But didn't they make Fable? Or is that UK?Mr_Cumberdale

[QUOTE="Mr_Cumberdale"]Japan followed by America. There's only one game on that list that I like from Britian - GTA IV. :) But didn't they make Fable? Or is that UK?tomarlyn

[QUOTE="tomarlyn"][QUOTE="Mr_Cumberdale"]Japan followed by America. There's only one game on that list that I like from Britian - GTA IV. :) But didn't they make Fable? Or is that UK?locopatho

Some of my favorite games this generation have been produced in Canada and Japan. But clearly, the United States is the world leader in sheer numbers of good/great games. I don't think anyone else is really close.

Unfortunately, much of Japan has stagnated outside of the handheld market and a select few top-quality game series this gen.

[QUOTE="MattDistillery"]

Well first of Rockstar North Isn't in England it's in Scotland, I think you meant to say UK in the poll not England.

Secondly Bioshock is a debatable Australia instead of America.

Thirdy, Why no Canada Mass Effect, Assasins Creed, Fifa(Is this 9+?) etc.

Apart from that im going to say America but not by much.

WAIW

us follow by ca, follow by uk, follow by japan. sorry but Only 3 games from Japan I'm actually interested in.