Top-Selling Videogame Publishers Ranked

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday November 19, 2003 @07:02PM from the bling-bling dept.

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."

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Most Interesting Part? by Babbster · 2003-11-19 19:15 · Score: 1, Interesting

I think it's the fact that the fourth quarter seemed to account in 2002 for just about half of total sales for everyone. Concurrent with that is that in 2002, EA's share from Q1-Q3 dropped just about right in half from 17.3% to 8.6% with Sony beating them in the fourth quarter to finish out with 8.8%. That tells me that the Q1-Q3 numbers, while interesting, mean very little about how the total year's numbers will shake out (and also that Madden is always released in Q3).