Game Publishers Of 2019: 6 Biggest Winners & 6 Biggest Losers

This passing year has been a big one for games. In what rightfully feels like the last hurrah of our current console generation, titles from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony were big and boisterous.

Even more interesting though were the ballsy business moves all three companies pulled in 2019. The gaming business is moving ever so slightly into a new age with fresh priorities, and each studio is preparing for it in different ways.

Not all of those ways are good though.

The other big corporation of the industry has had plenty of trademark faceplants in 2019, yet more surprisingly, several worked hard to redeem themselves successfully in gamers' eyes as well.

The PC industry was blatantly prevalent this year too, as the 'master race' got several extras, such as Xbox Game Pass, an upgraded PS Now, and Epic Game Store severing the community in (supposedly) major ways.

It's been a rollercoaster year, but as the game release calendar considerably slows down, it's time to examine which big companies came out on top, and which ones stumbled to the bottom...

2019 is the year where almost everyone threw their gauntlet down for their own game streaming service. Heck, even billion-dollar corporation Google announced they would join the party with Stadia.

It launched in November, as a console-free subscription service where you can play games in 60 FPS & 4K, on any screen in your house... sounds pretty promising, no?

Well, the launch was an outright disaster. In brief broad-strokes, there's a minuscule amount of exclusives, a light catalogue of old games, and tech that doesn't deliver.

The community is currently a ghost town, and refunds are being returned in droves.

The foundations are there for this to be a major platform, yet Google has been unable to convince anyone they should invest in it at all. The corporation has next year to turn the tide around... or write this venture off as an expensive car crash.