Scroll down to see his reasons for excluding a bunch of games for his list warzzzz
Good call on Psychonauts, too. But some people are immune to logic.
Even with his notations, they are to be 100% included in his list but he conveniently left them out. They own the IP's & were 100% involved in the active development of both games from "start to finish". Hell, Ensamble Studios themselves has been w/ MS since 2001.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter how content gets to a system as long as the content arrives. Only butt hurt people would go to a means to disqualify titles to fuel bullshit warrior agendas.
It's kinda funny he went through all those notations to disqualify titles. Based on reading his first post in this thread he thinks Bethesda games were included in Publisher of the Year. MS won PotY based off nothing from Bethesda. Bethesda had their own ranking (#5).
AOE4
MSFS (Xbox)
Psychonauts 2
Halo Infinite
Forza Horizon 5
Is what won them the title last year & highest average ever in a year from a publisher but I digress. It is what it is.
Edit:
In fact, going by his own logic some of the game he listed are disqualified. Insomniac was purchased by Sony in August of 2019, Ratchet & Clank was announced June of 2020. They had been clearly working on it before the Sony acquisition, this goes for Miles Morales as well which was announced June of 2020. Unless he really believes both games started from scratch to such polish & in a fully playable state from start to finish in 10 months between August of 2019 & June of 2020? Now to play the devils advocate, "well Insomiac has been working w/ Sony for awhile"....okay, well, is that not moving goal posts? No games in the making prior to acquisition*. If you were to disqualify Pyschnauts 2.
I think the only question is, did Insomiac or Double Fine benefit the most out of each acquisition for said games? Both Rachet & Clank & Miles Morales were going to be great games regardless of the Sony acquisition. Insomiac has released bangers left & right for years. You can't say the same for Pyschnauts 2 prior to the MS acquisition which was in development hell for so long & took over two years to release even after said acquisition.