DEVELOP 100: Numbers 1 to 100 now viewable at www.develop100.com
So we all know that Nintendo rocketed to the top of the 2008 edition of the Develop 100.
But do you want to see the rest? Who else was in the top ten? And who just made it in at number 100?
Our microsite detailing the full century answers all these questions, providing revenue and location details for each studio in the list.
Click through to www.develop100.com now to read the full list.
For details on the rest of our Develop 100 coverage, including the raft of content on www.develop-online.net and the free digital edition, click here.
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None of these £ figures make any sense?
Is this whole thing based just on UK sales?
If so what an incredibly pointless exercise! How can these be the top rankings worldwide when sales to the rest of the world are not accounted for?
There are some truely stupid results in these rankings.
They make it clear throughout that it's based on UK sales. It's hardly irrelevant or, as your bad spelling suggests 'truely stupid', because the UK market is the world's third largest software market. And it makes a change from the US-centric lists you always see on other sites. Plus, this is a very useful listing for those of us actually in the industry - it's very much our 'Who's Who', but with a factual, irrefutable statistic (rather than review scores) saying how valuable we all are.
Ah, got it:
Develop 100 ranks the world's games development studios based on the revenues their products made at UK retail in 2007.
It is just the UK, but the message makes it appear as if its worldwide. My mistake. So this doesnt cover download either? Just shop bought in England?
Sorry about the typo.
I still think its misleading to title something like this as:
"The world's top 100 developers"
I don't think it's entirely misleading in that sense - the list consists of developers from around the world.
Whether you agree with some of the methodology or not, you've got to admit some of the statistics (Skate outselling Tony Hawk's Project 8 two to one, almost) are pretty interesting.
I also find the studios at the low end of the list interesting - a lot of UK studios there, and Planet Moon sneaks in after making over £2m with Smarty Pants.
Well no, its only interesting in so far as it only covers the UK. To see the real picture you would have to look at how Skate did against Project 8, especially in the USA where the real games market is. Its an absolute nonsense to to state "Worlds Top 100" only based on UK sales figures. Almost all games companies make their money in USA sales. Only a worldwide accounting can give you a true "Worlds Top 100".
It should have been called "100 Best Sellers in the UK" - it has nothing to do with the Worlds best 100.
Interesting feedback here. The criticisms are ones we have heard every year - and I do accept the comments as fair. That said, none of these kinds of lists is ever truly perfect (our Game Changers list, which was completely subjective and editorially-driven and decided - rather than the firm metric in the Develop 100 - proved that in February). And remember, also - if we added more data in certain studios would slip, others would rise, others wouldn't even appear. You can't please everyone, I guess.
