In past years, Metacritic divided the publishers into two groups (large and smaller), based on how many games each of them released. But the choice was arbitrary, and the publishers moved from one group to another from year to year, so the editors of the site decided this time to unite all companies into one large group.
The rating was built on the basis of glasses that took into account four factors: the average Metascore (up to 150 points), the percentage of games with estimates above 75 points on average (up to 100 points), the percentage of games with estimates below 49 points on average (up to 100 points) andThe number of games with estimates above 90 points (5 points for each).
According to the calculations, in 2019 the best publisher was 505 Games. Last year, the Italian company released 8 products, including Control Studio Remedy Entertainment and BloodStained: Ritual of the Night Studio Artplay. Middle Metascore of all published games 505 Games — Exactly 80 points.
Activision blizzard is in second place. She also released 8 products in 2019, including Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Fromsoftware Studio. Middle Metascore Games of publication — 79.9 points. IN «yellow» The zone turned out to be releases such as the Switch version of Overwatch and the expansion of Hearthstone — Both from Blizzard Entertainment.
The third place was captured by Nintendo. Compared to 2018, the company increased four points. Nintendo released 24 products in 2019, although none of them received an average rating of 90 or higher. However, Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Super Mario Maker 2 approached him. 79 % of Nintendo releases in 2019 received positive estimates (for comparison, in 2018 the indicator was 65 %).
Separately, it is worth highlighting the publisher Annapurna Interactive. The company took the sixth line of the rating, but became the only one in 2019 whose average Metascore was above the rest — 80.5 points. All thanks to the highly estimated Outer Wilds and Telling Lies. But because of several failures, including Wattam, only 70 % of the publisher’s products received positive reviews, which did not give him to the top 5. In total, Annapurna Interactive released 6 products in 2019.
You can see the rest of the rating below. The first number is responsible for the average metaScore, while the second indicates points based on the calculation results. It is noteworthy that Sony Interactive Entertainment was not included in the top 10 and even top 20, since last year was relatively quiet for the PlayStation. Death Stranding, although positively appreciated, but not high enough, made MLB The Show 19 The best release of the company. In total, the publisher released 14 products, and its average Metascore amounted to 71.5 points.
- 505 Games — 80 (306.7);
- Activision Blizzard — 79.9 (301.4);
- Nintendo — 80 (299,2);
- Paradox Interactive — 77.8 (296.8);
- Capcom — 79.1 (291.1);
- Annapurna Interactive — 80.5 (290.7);
- Xbox Game Studios — 76.4 (289.6);
- Humble Bundle — 76.2 (289.2);
- Square Enix — 76.1 (285);
- Devolver Digital — 76 (283);
- Focus Home Interactive — 74.7 (273.6);
- Take-Two Interactive — 74.9 (273.4);
- Electronic Arts — 75.2 (270.9);
- Ubisoft — 73.3 (265.9);
- Team17 — 74.7 (265.1);
- Spike Chunsoft — 75.3 (262.9);
- Koei Tecmo Games — 74.7 (262.1);
- Sega — 73.4 (253);
- Bandai Namco Entertainment — 71.4 (246.5);
- Konami — 69.9 (244.8);
- IDEA FACTORY — 68.7 (240.6);
- Sony Interactive Entertainment — 71.5 (240.5);
- Pqube — 68.2 (237.6);
- Xseed/Marvelous — 69.4 (234.9);
- TinyBuild — 67.8 (230.3);
- Iceberg Interactive — 70 (229.9);
- Koch Media — 69.9 (229.9);
- Digerati Distribution — 69.3 (229);
- ThQ Nordic — 66.3 (225.4);
- Bethesda SoftWorks — 69.1 (225.1);
- Nis America — 69 (222.2);
- Daedalic Entertainment — 66.7 (222);
- Qubicgames — 65.5 (218.2);
- Curve Digital — 66.2 (215.1);
- Plug in digital — 66.1 (209.1);
- Ratalaika Games — 62.9 (203.5);
- Bigben Interactive — 64.7 (201,5);
- 1C Company — 62.1 (193.2);
- Headup Games — 61.3 (192);
- Merge Games — 61.8 (188).
Source:
- Metacritic