{"id":1532,"date":"2022-06-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virlan.co\/tech\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2022-06-02T17:21:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:21:55","slug":"the-biggest-video-games-companies-in-the-world-2022-sony-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virlan.co\/tech\/news\/the-biggest-video-games-companies-in-the-world-2022-sony-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Video Game Companies in the World 2022: Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and More…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The video game industry<\/strong> as a whole marked yet another sales record last year, being now worth over 130 billion U.S. dollars. 2022\u2019s Top 10 biggest video game brands are also largely the same as in the previous years. The following lists the biggest video game companies<\/strong> 2022 in the world by the achieved gaming<\/strong> revenue last year.<\/p>\n

Video game companies or publishers<\/h2>\n

A video game publisher<\/strong> is a company that publishes video games that have been developed either internally by the publisher or externally by a video game developer.<\/p>\n

They often finance the development, sometimes by paying a video game developer (the publisher calls this external development) and sometimes by paying an internal staff of developers called a studio. The large video game publishers also distribute the games they publish, while some smaller publishers instead hire distribution companies (or larger video game publishers) to distribute the games they publish. Other functions usually performed by the publisher include deciding on and paying for any licenses used by the game; paying for localization; layout, printing, and possibly the writing of the user manual; and the creation of graphic design elements such as the box design. Some large publishers with vertical structure also own publishing subsidiaries (labels).<\/p>\n

Large publishers may also attempt to boost efficiency across all internal and external development teams by providing services such as sound design and code packages for commonly needed functionality.<\/p>\n

The Biggest Video Games Companies in the World 2022<\/h3>\n

Sony<\/h4>\n

Sony<\/strong> remains the biggest video game company<\/strong> in the world in 2022. The Japanese tech giant now makes most of its gaming revenue, which totaled $24.9 billion last year, with the PlayStation 5 which came out in 2020 and became the world\u2019s most popular next-gen video game console. However, Sony also produces many original video games for its console. The company\u2019s handheld video game<\/strong> console, the PlayStation Vita, contributed to Sony\u2019s no.1 position on the video game market as well.<\/p>\n

Microsoft<\/h4>\n

The world\u2019s largest software company<\/strong> is also the world\u2019s second-largest video game company. Microsoft made around $16.3 billion with Xbox Game Studios<\/strong>, the company\u2019s gaming branch. The gaming revenue was primarily generated by Microsoft\u2019s new next-gen Xbox Series X\/S sales of course, but Microsoft additionally develops video games itself or owns studios that do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nintendo<\/h4>\n

Despite remaining in third place in this ranking of the Top 10 biggest video game companies in 2022, last year was still a very successful year for Japanese video game company Nintendo<\/strong>, helping the company to remain the world\u2019s biggest purely video game developer. Nintendo\u2019s revenue success, $15.3 billion last year, is largely driven not only by continued sales of the Nintendo Switch console but also by Pokemon Legends: Arceus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tencent<\/h4>\n

Chinese internet conglomerate Tencent<\/strong> is also involved in the video game business with an impressive gaming revenue of $13.9 billion. But through the many video game studios, the corporation owns all over the world, Tencent<\/strong> has also become a big player on the video game<\/strong> big screen.<\/p>\n

Activision Blizzard<\/h4>\n

Activision Blizzard<\/strong> comes fifth in the top 10 biggest video companies ranking of 2022. Founded in 2008 by the merger of American video game companies Activision and Blizzard Entertainment<\/strong>, Activision Blizzard generated $8.8 billion last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n