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Ssenkahdavic on 15 March 2010

This study reminds me of Global Warming. Leaving out data to make the whole look (better/worse) depending on what audience you are aiming at.

If I released a study like this at work, leaving out as much data as he did and cherry picking the data that I did include, I would be fired.



 

  

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Barozi on 15 March 2010

Well it's still their view on the games and I would personally rate quite a few Top 10 PS3 games on Metacritic lower than they are as well.
I can't say if they're biased or not based on this. On the other hand there will be review sites, which may rate them way above the average.



MikeB on 15 March 2010

I think it was also great an expert group awarded Killzone 2 for its advanced AI last year. Halo 3's AI is rather so-so, but Killzone 2 got a 7/10 and Halo 3 a 10/10 from Edge! LOL

IMO they are shooting themselves in the foot...



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slowmo on 15 March 2010
Barozi said:
Well it's still their view on the games and I would personally rate quite a few Top 10 PS3 games on Metacritic lower than they are as well.
I can't say if they're biased or not based on this. On the other hand there will be review sites, which may rate them way above the average.

This cannot happen according to some people on here, I got ambushed the last time I stated that there is a possibility (which there is even if slim) a larger proportion of the Meta selected PS3 reviewers could be overrating games in comparison to the 360 selection.  Anything that punches large gaping holes in the theories of the data is just ignored. 



Barozi on 15 March 2010
MikeB said:
I think it was also great an expert group awarded Killzone 2 for its advanced AI last year. Halo 3's AI is rather so-so, but Killzone 2 got a 7/10 and Halo 3 a 10/10 from Edge! LOL

IMO they are shooting themselves in the foot...

I would give Killzone 2 8/10 and Halo 3 10/10, so I don't see the big difference. (Based on Edge's reviewing system)



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Hephaestos on 15 March 2010

the way you ranked the graphs makes them biased... you did the metacritic ranking, so the jumps in score are in disfavor of edge.... try it the other way arround and you might (or not) see something different.



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jesus kung fu magic on 15 March 2010
Mazty said:
themanwithnoname said:
Are you guys trying to argue that a metacritic average is an "unbiased" score, while any score Edge gives that's far off that score is completely biased? I don't know why it's so shocking to think they "hey, maybe Edge just thinks the 360 has better games!" Naw, let's go with the easy route, and everyone who doesn't come close to giving games the score you want them to have is biased.

I wish we could ban all threads talking about Edge scores.

 

Well if you could show how one console is more likely to have better games than the more powerful counterpart, please impart your pearls of wisdom.

Simply put, many games on the PS3 are considered top games of their genre, yet Edge reviews don't ever reflect this. To break away from the average review once in a while shows independent thinking, but to do it all the time shows possible bias.

Im curious.....what games are you referring to?

@OP

First Eurogamer was bias against the ps3

Then it was EDGE

Then it was IGN

And now were back to Edge?

When is this going to stop?



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M.U.G.E.N on 15 March 2010

Edge sucks ass and so are most of their reviews (they do have some good ones every now and then). I knew that even before a research



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meatloaf73 on 15 March 2010
jarrod said:
Inherently flawed study, as it's only rating the top 30 games on each (plus multi). You can't claim institutional bias when you're looking at ~5% of the games on these platforms, it's borderline irresponsible. "Journalistic integrity" indeed, lol.


That's funny! When most studies are done, it's a 10th of 1%..........5% makes it almost fact. This report would be 50 times more accurate than most every study you read.



jarrod on 15 March 2010
meatloaf73 said:
jarrod said:
Inherently flawed study, as it's only rating the top 30 games on each (plus multi). You can't claim institutional bias when you're looking at ~5% of the games on these platforms, it's borderline irresponsible. "Journalistic integrity" indeed, lol.


That's funny! When most studies are done, it's a 10th of 1%..........5% makes it almost fact. This report would be 50 times more accurate than most every study you read.

If it were a true random sampling, that would be the case.  Unfortunately, his methodology is questionable, his selection process completely opaque and the whole thing really reads like he started with his conclusion and worked backwards with data to support it.

I'll say it again, it's seething with bias.