Fairly new to the site but a good article. Never really gave it much thought before, I would have added Psygnosis to that list from the Amiga days though.
kojima, how does he do it. not a single mistake in the mgs series, except for the exception of (cough cough) raiden's existance. 1 in 10 people don't realize this but raiden was kinda a joke character made in rataliation of a girl's comment. one point the president, which is inaccurate since he's barrack, not this other guy, actually grabs him below the belt before realizing he's not a girl. back on topic, you know, technically in mgs's timeline, raiden would have killed george sears a couple of days before this comment, April 30th/09 to be exact.
I can see why Insomniac are not on the list as their first ever game (the FPS) was really bad. Naughty Dog however, deserve top spot on that list. Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Uncharted are all AAA franchises with AAA games in them (Well, the first 3 Crash's anyway before ND sold the IP). Nice article nevertheless.