Metacritic Publishes First Annual Game Platform Power Rankings
According to Metacritic, the Xbox 360 boasts the most positively-reviewed games this year with 88. The PlayStation 3, though, took the honors for the best "overall game quality of the year," including 5 of the top 10 highest scoring games overall. The Wii was home to a staggering 362 new games in 2009 but had a rough year in terms of quality. Critics liked just 28% of the games released on Nintendo's console. On the flip-side, the percentage of "bad" releases was lowest on the PS3 and PSP at only 7% for each of Sony's platforms.
On an interesting side-note the time-bending platformer Braid was the only game in Metacritic's list of the top 10 best-reviewed games (on any platform) that was not a sequel or remake. Three PS3 exclusives made the list as well including Uncharted 2 in the top spot; however, the Xbox 360's only platform-exclusive title to make the list was Forza 3, in 10th place.
Only time will tell if the trends will hold true in 2010, the first few months of which promises to be very competitive due to a significant number of AAA title releases having been pushed into the new year.
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wytefang
replyThe fact that supposedly SFIV (not a game I dislike NOR a bad game at all - it was definitely a solid game) is the highest rated PC game (??) just proves how wonky and unreliable a score aggregation like this can be. I'm surprised the industry puts up with sites like these as they can prove extremely misleading by overlooking the details in favor of the broader picture and by favoring specific sites over others.
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That right there is why I don't even visit sites like this.
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I do, but I use it to gather all of the reviews in one place so I don't have to search around. I READ the reviews, discount the fanboys and the haters, and look for what most of the reviewers agree upon as being the high and low points for each game. Screw what the Metascore is, this can be used as a tool to avoid purchasing a shitty game. Plus using it to find reviews bashing games is just too much fun!
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SF 4 may not have been L4D2, but it was easily a top 5 release when you look at pure quality. Capcom deserved more sales on what I would consider the best console port the PC has gotten in a good while.
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They don't care. These sites don't drive sales. There was a story on Arstechnica or somewhere recently with a study that showed these review sites have no effect on a games sales.
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