These are all the games on Metacritic with a 75+ score for the home consoles. I've gone through the 80+ lineup to make sure multiplats with no metascore for Xb one and / or Wii U are added in their columns, and I think I've taken out reviewed DLC. But for the 75-79 games I got lazy and haven't done that clean up. You can also see that PS4 has the most 80+ games, though only 1 more than Wii U. But tellingly Wii U has had an extra year to build up the game library.

PS4 has the highest scoring game of all the consoles (TLOUR 95).

Wii U has the highest scoring game that is only available on a new gen console (SM3DW 93).

Wii U has the highest scoring new IP* (Shovel knight 88)

PS4 has the highest scoring exclusive new IP (Velocity 2X 87, it is available on PSV)

Xb one has highest scoring AAA new IP not available on other new gen consoles (Titanfall 86)

Of course games that have not released yet aren't in the list, and the big names for each console are LBP3, Halo MCC and SSB. It is all but guaranteed that each of these games will review above 75. But it doesn't really change things much, except for the Halo, LBP or SSB fans. I have added Minecraft Xb one edition even though it's not out yet because it has a meta score already. And of course my personally most anticipated game of 2014 isn't there to pad out the PS4/Xb one list: Dragon Age Inquisition.

So there you have it. As objective as it gets in this industry. Anyone claiming Xb one or Wii U has the best library of games is being a download only snob. Anyone claiming PS4 doesn't have a decent game library to justify a purchase is full of shit. If you want to argue, take it up with Metacritic.

Edit: added Alien Isolation to Xb one column.

*Any game that has main characters such as Mario, Link, Rayman, etc in is isn't really a new IP IMO. More like an IP extension.

I wonder how many comments will contains things along the lines of "[xyz] doesn't count because [xyz]" :p

It's worth noting though that simply listing their entire metacritic lists is somewhat pointless. The score between versions can often vary (even if they're functionally identical), depending on the number of reviews, and the scores given by the brand specific sites of each. You're best putting multi-plats in a a PS4-X1 only list and an 'everyone' list.

True, but some games are near perfect and, yet, metacritic put them at 70-75...

Good for you. Wii U does have the best 90+ line up.

That's why I went to 75+ not 80+ as there are a few games that cross the 80 threshold between console versions. I'm happy to add </=74 games to the list if the version with the most reviews is >75.

Well we knew this already, but since now it's official let's just wait and see which categories some people will come up with in reaction to such a thing. It's quite amusing to see goals shift and heads spin.

maybe wait for halo:mcc?
and why are some multiplats in, but some not?


i dont get what this list is about

If you're just trying to show quantity rather than quality, the lists are fine. There are a few occasions where one version has few enough reviews to not be listed at all, but i don't expect that's frequent enough to pose any dramatic effect on your list.

Cool. I hope you were joking with "Anyone claiming PS4 doesn't have a decent game library to justify a purchase is full of shit," though, because the top 7 PS4 games are also available on PS3... so anyone who owns a PS3 could easily say that the PS4's library doesn't justify an upgrade, especially since they can't even trade their PS3 in towards it if they want to continue playing their PS3 games.

Take out the cross gens the indies I can play on pc with a horrible pc. And then it wouldn't. True exclusives wii u wins. Only on console exclusives it's a debate between Xbox one and wii u. Heck even ps4.theyres no real wknner