Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Media score aggregate site Metacritic has unveiled some new statistics this week, revealing its list of publishers that performed the best in 2017.

To calculate this, it's taken all of a publisher's games released last year and averaged their scores, and figured out the percentage of games that have received what Metacritic considers a good score, and the percentage of games with a bad score. According to these metrics, Bethesda Softworks comes out on top, with an average metascore of 79.9 across all of its 2017 releases.

Here's the order of major publishers according to Metacritic, along with their overall average score for 2017:

  1. Bethesda Softworks - 79.9
  2. Nintendo - 78
  3. SEGA - 75.5
  4. Activision Blizzard - 75.7
  5. Capcom - 76.6
  6. Ubisoft - 75.4
  7. Sony Interactive Entertainment - 74.9
  8. Square Enix - 73.6
  9. Bandai Namco Entertainment - 73
  10. Koei Tecmo Games - 69.7
  11. NIS America - 68.2
  12. Telltale Games - 70.9

Sony is sitting right in the middle of the list, although it did have the highest rated new IP for 2017 in Horizon: Zero Dawn, with WipEout Omega Collection taking the highest user score for a Sony title.

It's important to remember that each publisher's overall ranking in this list takes more than just the overall average metascore into account, and it makes for some interesting reading. You can view Metacritic's ranking through here, and it goes into more detail about how the publishers were put into this order. It's all pretty meaningless at the end of the day, but it's still worth a look.

What do you make of Metacritic's publisher ranking? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

[source metacritic.com]