Following up on a recent thread, I was motivated to produce some charts that illustrate what some of the major manufacturers produced on a year by year basis in terms of video games only. It took quite a bit of effort to compile the data, and once I did I found it hard to produce a single chart that shows all of the "major" manufacturers without my own personal bias of what "major" means. In other words, if I simply added up all the games produced over the lifetime of that manufacturer and established a "cut off" point that was high enough to prevent the chart from looking like spaghetti, most of the classic manufacturers would be left off of the list.
So instead, I chose to focus on "eras" and which manufacturers dominated in each. I came up with 5 charts. They may not be perfect in some people's eyes in that I haven't included manufacturer "X" or "Y" but that's because I wanted to maintain the lack of bias. Hopefully you guys will enjoy the results of my effort.
A couple things stood out to me with these charts. First, the Konami spike in 2000. Don't know what's up with that. Crazy! Second, Sega and Taito are on all 5 charts. Konami is on all but Bronze. I'd like to hear what other people think is interesting about these (if anything - lol).
Now that I have produced these, I would also consider requests for what manufacturers to chart together, and over what time period, e.g. top American manufacturers over the entire time line. Just bear in mind that in my experience 10 or more manufacturers makes for an unreadable chart. I'm also not going to produce charts left and right, so if there are a bunch of requests I'll try to address common ones and if your request is ignored well, please realize that I'm tired of working on this so don't be offended if I don't produce the chart you request.
Thanks to Greg Mclemore for helping me gather some of this data.
So instead, I chose to focus on "eras" and which manufacturers dominated in each. I came up with 5 charts. They may not be perfect in some people's eyes in that I haven't included manufacturer "X" or "Y" but that's because I wanted to maintain the lack of bias. Hopefully you guys will enjoy the results of my effort.
A couple things stood out to me with these charts. First, the Konami spike in 2000. Don't know what's up with that. Crazy! Second, Sega and Taito are on all 5 charts. Konami is on all but Bronze. I'd like to hear what other people think is interesting about these (if anything - lol).
Now that I have produced these, I would also consider requests for what manufacturers to chart together, and over what time period, e.g. top American manufacturers over the entire time line. Just bear in mind that in my experience 10 or more manufacturers makes for an unreadable chart. I'm also not going to produce charts left and right, so if there are a bunch of requests I'll try to address common ones and if your request is ignored well, please realize that I'm tired of working on this so don't be offended if I don't produce the chart you request.
Thanks to Greg Mclemore for helping me gather some of this data.


