EA Tops Metacritic’s Highest Ranking Publishers List of 2012

Between January 1 and December 31 of last year, Electronic Arts was THE best video games publisher. At least that’s according to Metacritic, as the aggregate scoring website has shown in a recently released list.

Metacritic compiled two lists; one featuring major publishers who released 15 or more games in 2012, and one with publishers that released 7-14 titles, last year. You can check out said lists, below. The findings are also rather interesting.

Major Publishers – Best of 2012

1. EA (75.2)
2. Microsoft (73.0)
3. Sony (72.3)
4. Nintendo (71.2)
5. Capcom (70.4)
6. Warner Bros. (70.6)
7. Ubisoft (68.2)
8. Konami (69)
9. SEGA (69.9)
10. Activision Blizzard (64.4)
11. Namco Bandai (62.5)

Mid-Sized Publishers – Best of 2012

1. Take-Two Interactive (83.1)
2. Telltale Games (83.9)
3. Square Enix (75.2)
4. Bethesda Softworks (74.3)
5. THQ (73.7)
6. Atlus (69.8)
7. XSEED (66.8)
8. Paradox Interactive (62.1)
9. Focus Home Interactive (60.5)
10. 505 Games (53.3)

Straight off the bat, to clarify, the publisher that has painted in a bad light in recent times – EA – swoops in and comes in first place above the big three. A major help in that was Mass Effect 3 – another “bad guy” last year with all of the controversy surrounding that ending.

It’s definitely worth your time to head on over to Metacritic and have gander at their stats and figures with regard video game publishers in the year that was 2012.