Top-Selling Videogame Publishers Ranked

Thanks to GameSpot for their piece revealing the highest-grossing videogame publishers for 2003 so far, as taken from the U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray report previously excerpted on Slashdot. Although numbers "don't include the always-crucial Q4", the article notes: "Unsurprisingly, Electronic Arts is on top with nearly $600 million in sales - some 20 percent of the entire market", and Nintendo and Sony are second and third-placed, with Microsoft's game software sales currently down in fourteenth position. The report also pointed out that "...2003 has been a rough year for Activision so far. Its earnings dipped nearly $80 million compared to the same period in 2002. Take Two's numbers took a similar nose dive, sliding from $213 to $134 million."

Comments

Let me do some math

[imperator_mundi]

The total 2002 share of EA is wrong, otherwise how could it be that a more than a billion $ sales (1'021'832'000$) correspond to 8.6%, or 0.2% less than what the 483 millions of Nintendo do... I suppose that someone made some copy/past mistakes... the right figure should be 18.6% (=483/1000*8.8%)

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[Snowmit]

This is nearly the same as last year, EA, Nintendo and Sony ranked in that order. Is this supposed to illustrate some major change?

No, but it's still news to point out that things have stayed the same. In fact, in a world where people keep going on and on about "Nintendo 3rd Party by 2004" or whenever, it's a piece of information that's pretty valuable. Despite perception on message boards and everywhere else, Nintendo is doing fine. In fact, they're doing very well indeed.