Developers: Intro & ESRB Summary - Part One

Of the 1,650+ titles comprised in the summary for 2008, there are well over 300 developers.    That pretty much limits us on what we can do with the data.  For the most part, we’ll be displaying tables that identify the developers with a higher frequency of titles released per category, i.e. genere, platform, etc.   We’ll also note which developers scored the highest Metacritic score in each category.

The green highlighted areas you’ll see represent the highest values for a column, and the orange highlight for the lowest.  For example, TellTale Games had the highest Metacritic score above all others, whereas Konami had the lowest posted Metacritic Score, etc. 

Now we’ll take the top developers see how their scores are distributed in Metacritics Favorability Index.

The following are the top developers who scored the most titles falling into the favorability category “Universal Acclaim”

Below is a list of the top 10 developers scoring the highest overall Metacritic Ratings.

Next we’ll take a look at a series of tables related to the appropriate ESRB and see who develops the most games per category as well as the best rated games.  Note that the scores for best, worst, as well as the averages are a subset of that particular ESRB category.  These scores may not reflect that developers overall best, worst, etc.  For example, the Average Rating, is actually the average for that developer in the noted ESRB category.