Confira as desenvolvedoras de jogos do Reino Unido de maiores sucessos

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A UKIE's Best Selling Games Awards revelou os jogos mais bem sucedidos lançados no Reino Unido até a presente data. O evento faz parte da campanha 30 Years Of Play. E a UKIE e a GfK compartilharam com a GamesIndustry.biz a lista dos 40 desenvolvedores de jogos mais bem-sucedidos do Reino Unido, com base nas vendas de jogos em mídia física no Reino Unido de 1995 a 2018.

O banco de dados da GfK possui mais de 22.000 jogos por SKUs (unidades de controle de estoque) com caixas individuais, com detalhes do país, nome do desenvolvedor e se os títulos são de propriedade independente ou de editor. Claro, há um monte de advertências que precisam ser incluídas aqui. Como a lista é baseada apenas em vendas de mídia física, não há desenvolvedores de jogos para dispositivos móveis aqui. E a Jagex, uma das maiores desenvolvedoras de jogos do Reino Unido, está totalmente ausente, já que o RuneScape é um título para gratuito para PC. A ausência do digital também prejudica principalmente os desenvolvedores de jogos voltados para PC's, como a Creative Assembly e a Frontier, que tiveram vendas enormes por meio da Steam nos últimos anos. No entanto, é uma lista divertida que destaca alguns dos grandes desenvolvedores de jogos do Reino Unido de anos passados ​​(na verdade, 18 dos Top 40 não estão mais em funcionamento), e nos lembra da importância do mercado de discos historicamente.

Aqui está o Top 40. Obrigado ao UKIE, GfK e 30 Years Of Play pela lista.

1. Rockstar North

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: GTA V (PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, Xbox One)

Also Famous For: Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption II

2. Traveller's Tales

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: LEGO Batman (PS2, PS3, 360, Wii, DS, PSP, PC)

Also Famous For: LEGO Indiana Jones, LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Harry Potter, LEGO Lord of the Rings, Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex

3. Codemasters

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Colin McRae Rally (PS1, PC)

Also Famous For: TOCA, Micro Machines, Brian Lara, F1, Dirt

4. Sony Studios (PlayStation London)

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: The Getaway (PS2)

Also Famous For: EyeToy, SingStar, F1, Wipeout

5. Sports Interactive

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Football Manager 2007 (PC, 360, PSP)

Also Famous For: Championship Manager

6. Core Design

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Tomb Raider 2 (PS1, PC)

Also Famous For: Tomb Raider, Fighting Force

7. Eurocom Entertainment

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: James Bond 007: Nightfire (PS2, Xbox, GameCube)

Also Famous For: GoldenEye 007: Reloaded, Spyro: A Hero's Tale, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 007: The World Is Not Enough, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Vancouver 2010, Beijing 2008, Dead Space: Extraction, Athens 2004

8. Criterion Games

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (PS2, Xbox, GameCube)

Also Famous For: Burnout, Black

9. Rare

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: GoldenEye (N64) and Kinect Sports (360)

Also Famous For: Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie, Diddy Kong Racing, Viva Piñata, Donkey Kong Country

10. Team17

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Worms

Also Famous For: Overcooked, The Escapists

11. Ubisoft Reflections

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Driver (PS1, PC)

Also Famous For: Stuntman, Destruction Derby

12. 4J Studios

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Minecraft (Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox versions)

13. Creative Assembly

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Rome: Total War (PC)

Also Famous For: Total War series, Alien Isolation, Rugby

14. Sumo Digital

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Sega Superstars Tennis (360, PS3, PS2, Wii, DS)

Also Famous For: Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing, Crackdown 3, LittleBigPlanet 3

15. EA Bright Light

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire (PS2, Xbox, GameCube)

Also Famous For: Monopoly, Harry Potter, Battlefield 2: Modern Combat

16. Rebellion

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: The Simpsons Game (PS2, Wii, PSP)

Also Famous For: Sniper Elite, Alien vs Predator

17. Bullfrog

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Theme Hospital (PS1, PC)

Also Famous For: Dungeon Keeper, Theme Park, Populous, Syndicate

18. Bizarre Creations

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Project Gotham Racing 4 (360)

Also Famous For: F1, Blur, Metropolitan Street Racer, The Club, Geometry Wars

19. Climax

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Theme Park World (PS1)

Also Famous For: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Robot Wars: Arena of Destruction

20. Rocksteady

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Batman Arkham City (PS3, 360, PC)

Also Famous For: Batman Arkham Knight, Batman Arkham Asylum

21: Hothouse Creations

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Who Wants To Be a Millionaire (PS1, PC, Dreamcast, GBA)

Also Famous For: Pop Idol, Gangsters

22: Lionhead Studios

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Fable II (360)

Also Famous For: Fable, Black & White, The Movies

23: Argonaut

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stones (PS1)

Also Famous For: Croc, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Alien Resurrection

24. Evolution Studios

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: DriveClub (PS4)

Also Famous For: Motorstorm, WRC

25. Blitz Games

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Bad Boys II

Also Famous For: Bratz, Spongebob Squarepants, Glover

26. Playground Games

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Forza Horizon 3 (Xbox One)

Also Famous For: Forza Horizon, Forza Horizon 2, Forza Horizon 4

27. Frontier Developments

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 (PC)

Also Famous For: Elite, Kinectimals, Kinect Disney Land, Planet Coaster, Jurassic World Evolution

28. Exient

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Need for Speed: Undercover (PS2, Wii)

Also Famous For: FIFA (DS/GBA), Various Need For Speed Games (Wii, PS2 and DS)

29. Pivotal Games

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Conflict: Desert Storm (PS2, Xbox, GameCube)

Also Famous For: Conflict: Vietnam, Conflict: Global Terror, The Great Escape, Conflict: Denied Ops

30. Relentless Software

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Buzz! The Music Quiz (PS2)

Also Famous For: Various Buzz Games, Murder Files

31. Gremlin Interactive

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Premier Manager 98 (PS1, PC)

Also Famous For: Actua Soccer

32. Media Molecule

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: LittleBigPlanet (PS3)

Also Famous For: LittleBigPlanet 2, Tearaway

33. Kuju Entertainment

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Microsoft Train Simulator (PC)

Also Famous For: Battalion Wars, Buzz: The Sports Quiz, Crescent Suzuki Racing, Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior

34. Asylum Entertainment

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Peppa Pig: The Game (DS, Wii)

Also Famous For: Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth/Return To Earth, Horrid Henry's Horrid Adventure,

35. Dark Energy Digital

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: World Championship Snooker (PS1)

Also Famous For: Hydrophobia, G-Sufers, Pool Shark 2

36. Slightly Mad Studios

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Need for Speed: Shift (PS3, 360, PC)

Also Famous For: Project CARS

37. Free Radical Design

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: TimeSplitters 2 (PS2, Xbox, GameCube)

Also Famous For: TimeSplitters, TimeSplitters 2, Second Sight, Haze

38. Probe

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Die Hard Trilogy

Also Famous For: Alien Trilogy, XG3, Forsaken

39. Rage Software

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: David Beckham Soccer (PS1, PS2, Xbox, GBA)

Also Famous For: Jonah Lomu Rugby, Rocky, Striker, Wild Wild Racing

40. Psygnosis

Most Successful UK Boxed Game: Lemmings

Also Famous For: Wipeout, G Police, Colony Wars