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Nintendo Drops Out Of Metacritics Top 20 Game Publisher Rankings For 2024

Metacritic has published its 15th annual game publisher rankings, which ranks various game publishers by their average critic review scores for 2024.

This time, Nintendo has placed 22nd in the rankings out of the 37 listed publishers, with an average Metascore of 76 across the 13 games they released that year. This would be considered a “Generally Favorable” score, but this is the lowest Nintendo has placed in Metacritic’s rankings so far.

This result is perhaps unsurprising, given that 2024 was a more quiet year for Nintendo without any major breakout hits aside from the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake, Super Mario Party, and The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom.

On the other hand, in an amusing twist, Nintendo’s former biggest rival SEGA snagged the Number 1 spot this year, with an 82.9 across the 12 games they released in 2024. Other publishers in the upper echelon of the rankings include Capcom, Microsoft, and Sony.

You can check out the full list below:

Ranking Publisher
37 Fulqrum Publishing
36 Nacon/Daedalic
35 PQube
34 Perp Games
33 THQ Nordic
32 Humble Games
31 Atari
30 Maximum Entertainment
28 (tie) Secret Mode
28 (tie) 3D Realms
27 Bandai Namco
26 Team17
25 Konami
24 NIS America
23 Electronic Arts
22 Nintendo
21 Super Rare Games
20 Plaion
19 Idea Factory
18 Ubisoft
17 ININ Games
16 Red Art Games
15 Digital Eclipse
14 Plug In Digital
13 Devolver Digital
12 Take-Two Interactive
11 Kepler Interactive
10 Annapurna Interactive
9 Microsoft
8 Raw Fury
6 (tie) Square Enix
6 (tie) Gamera Games
5 Focus Entertainment
4 Sony
3 Aksys Games
2 Capcom
1 SEGA

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