So System Wars, I decided that we should have a formal competition about which gaming company we all believe really is the best one. IF you have previously seen or participated in my Greatest Nintendo Franchise, Greatest Franchise, Greatest Zelda Game and Greatest Final Fantasy Game competitions, you know how it works, but I'll list it all out here for you regardless:

The problem with asking System Wars to definitively answer the question is the problem of tallying: the Gamespot poll system only allows for five options per poll, and no one has the time to count all the answers people give within a thread. So here's the perfect way out. In this competition,

Rather than having a poll, where I would be limited by five options, I decided to go for a much more open and flexible approach instead.

• Name your three favorite gaming companies, in order of preference.
• The gaming company may be a publisher, or a developer. It may be a defunct company (such as Ensemble Studios).
  
• The company that is ranked first in your post will be awarded 50 points. The second company gets 25 points, and the third company gets 15 points.
• Only posts that name three comapnies will be counted. Posts that name less than three comapnies will be disregarded.
• If you name more than three companies, then only the first three games mentioned in your post will be counted.
• Based on your responses, the points that each comapny gathers will be tallied up. At the end of the voting period, the top five companies will be selected for the Final Round, where they will be included in a poll that all of System Wars can vote on. The voting period ends in seven days from now. The topic title will be changed beforehand to notify everyone that the tallying period is ending.

So with all of that in mind, here are my favorite three gaming companies of all time:

Nintendo

Bethesda Softworks

Ensemble Studios

Current Tally

Nintendo: 3075 points

Sony: 1875 points

Valve: 1860 points

Rockstar: 885 points

Blizzard: 810 points

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Sega: 740 points

Square Enix: 600 points

Bioware: 465 points

Bethesda: 460 points

Bungie: 325 points

Capcom: 330 points

CD Projekt RED: 295 points

Konami: 235 points

Naughty Dog: 215 points

Rare: 185 points

Atlus: 180 points

Black Isle: 165 points

Ensemble: 145 points

Free Radical: 135 points

Ubisoft: 115 points

Retro Studios: 115 points

Paradox Interactive: 105 points

Kojima: 100 points

id Software: 100 points

DICE: 80 points

Obsidian: 75 points

Relic: 75 points

Interplay: 65 points

EA: 65 points

Rocksteady: 60 points

Activision: 50 points

Troika Games: 50 points

Amanita Design: 50 points

Namco: 50 points

Eidos: 50 points

Bohemia Interactive: 50 points

Westwood Studios: 50 points

Volition: 50 points

Game Freak: 40 points

Origin: 30 points

Intelligent Systems: 30 points

Platinum Games: 30 points

Strategic Simulations Inc: 25 points

Spiderweb Software: 25 points

GSC Game World: 25 points

Frictional Games: 25 points

EA Canada: 25 points

Bullfrog: 25 points

Insomniac: 25 points

New World Computing: 25 points

SNK: 25 points

Sucker Punch: 25 points

Ion Storm: 25 points

Criterion Games: 15 points

Microsoft: 15 points

Sony Santa Monica: 15 points

Team ICO: 15 points

System 3 Software: 15 points

Monolith Soft: 15 points

Team Silent: 15 points

Radical: 15 points

From Software: 15 points

Atari: 15 points

LucasArts: 15 points

thatgamecompany: 15 points

Zachtronics Industries: 15 points

Treyarch: 15 points

Arena Net: 15 points

Irrational: 15 points

Hudson Soft: 15 points

Polyphony Digital: 15 points

Geurrila Games: 15 points

Last post counted was sora16perfect. Last update to tally made at 2.14pm CT on July 11, 2012.