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The 14 Best First-Party Video Game Studios

by YPB Team

Behind every exclusive is a building full of people. The reputations in here swing much wider than the review scores of the games they made.

  1. Nintendo EPD — ranked #11
    Nintendo EPD
    Nintendo's in-house division behind Mario, Zelda, Splatoon and Animal Crossing.
  2. Naughty Dog — ranked #22
    Naughty Dog
    The PlayStation studio behind Crash Bandicoot, Uncharted and The Last of Us.
  3. 343 Industries — ranked #33
    343 Industries
    The Microsoft studio created to take over Halo from Bungie in 2007.
  4. Santa Monica Studio — ranked #44
    Santa Monica Studio
    Sony's Los Angeles studio and the home of the God of War series.
  5. Insomniac Games — ranked #55
    Insomniac Games
    The Spyro and Ratchet & Clank studio, now Sony-owned and making Spider-Man.
  6. Rockstar North — ranked #66
    Rockstar North
    The Edinburgh studio behind Grand Theft Auto, first-party to Take-Two rather than a platform.
  7. Game Freak — ranked #77
    Game Freak
    The independent studio that has developed every mainline Pokémon game since 1996.
  8. Sucker Punch Productions — ranked #88
    Sucker Punch Productions
    The Sly Cooper and Infamous studio, later the makers of Ghost of Tsushima.
  9. Playground Games — ranked #99
    Playground Games
    The British studio that turned Forza Horizon into Xbox's most reliable series.
  10. Retro Studios — ranked #1010
    Retro Studios
    The Texas studio Nintendo trusted with Metroid Prime and Donkey Kong Country Returns.
  11. Team Asobi — ranked #1111
    Team Asobi
    The Tokyo studio behind Astro Bot, PlayStation's most acclaimed recent platformer.
  12. Obsidian Entertainment — ranked #1212
    Obsidian Entertainment
    The role-playing studio behind Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity, Xbox-owned since 2018.
  13. Turn 10 Studios — ranked #1313
    Turn 10 Studios
    Microsoft's Seattle studio and the developer of the Forza Motorsport simulators.
  14. Monolith Soft — ranked #1414
    Monolith Soft
    The Nintendo-owned studio behind the Xenoblade Chronicles series.

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343 Industries was created in 2007 to take Halo over from Bungie, and it has been measured against Bungie ever since: https://youpick.best/articles/playstation-vs-xbox-vs-nintendo-ranked

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