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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Metacritic stats by Gen 8 platform ** UPDATED **

psychicscubadiver said:
czecherychestnut said:


I used http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/release-date/available/ps4/metascore?page=1 for ps4, http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/release-date/available/xboxone/metascore?page=1 for XB1 and http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/release-date/available/wii-u/metascore?page=1 for Wii U, sorted by metascore. Obviously used all the pages for each platform, not sure why your links and the ones I used have different number of games in them. I'll look into it more later.


Okay, I did some poking around the site and I figured out where the difference comes from. Your numbers do not filter out 'unscored' (less than seven reviews) games. My sources did.

 

So, I guess removing shovelware (or a chunk of it at least) WiiU has the best percentages until you hit the >60 bracket.

Ok, good work! I will say though that removing unscored (less than 7 reviews) games doesn't necessarily remove shovelware, it just removes obscure games which didn't get much coverage. A lot of the time it's because they are bad games, but not always so we just need to be careful about what we draw from that data (same goes for my data in other ways).

 

Fundamentally, it'll always come down to what individual preference is, which metacritic can't account for. But I do still feel that unless you are a strong fan of Nintendo games (which are quite unique), the PS4 library is the strongest of the three consoles at this point. And for people that might say the Wii U has the best games (which has been done plenty of times on this forum) without throwing an IMO in, this thread is evidence against that argument. 



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vkaraujo said:
While there is always shovelware risk, no one can't deny Wii U loses some great third party titles like Dragon Age, The Witcher 3, Far Cry 4, Shadows of Mordor.

On the other hand, it is amazing that Nintendo can hold things so close just by themselfes.

absolutely true. i've checked the Wii U games, there are those super kiddie games but it won't really sell that much or normal gamers won't really even bother to buy for their younger siblings.



This combined with the sales of PS4 consoles goes to show that exclusivity doesn't really impact sales so much anymore. If you looked at the number of PS4 games with a high meta score, most would be available on other platforms. On Wii U the situation would be reversed. I'm not convinced that exclusive 'system sellers' are even a thing anymore. The games that sell consoles mostly seem to be multiplats (GTA, Bethesda RPGs, COD etc).



czecherychestnut said:

Results are:

Wii U: 68.14% from 206 games

XB1: 70.64% from 223 games

PS4: 72.06% from 286 games

Median

PS4 - 74%

Wii U - 72%

XB1 -  73%

 

1. awesome data you gathered

 

2. But with ps4 (according to this data) having 80 more games than the wii-u yet only being 1.5% better by median, thats not too impressive. It's pretty much equal to a basket ball player scoring 50 points on 100 shots, vs the next guy scoring 40 points on 60 shots. 

with more games shouldn't ps4 be sizable better, especially if it's the "better machine, with the best studios" as some tote?



umegames said:
czecherychestnut said:

Results are:

Wii U: 68.14% from 206 games

XB1: 70.64% from 223 games

PS4: 72.06% from 286 games

Median

PS4 - 74%

Wii U - 72%

XB1 -  73%

 

1. awesome data you gathered

 

2. But with ps4 (according to this data) having 80 more games than the wii-u yet only being 1.5% better by median, thats not too impressive. It's pretty much equal to a basket ball player scoring 50 points on 100 shots, vs the next guy scoring 40 points on 60 shots. 

with more games shouldn't ps4 be sizable better, especially if it's the "better machine, with the best studios" as some tote?


Impressive for you or not, having more and better games is preferable, isnt it?



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Mr.Playstation said:
Just like you I'm surprised that the WII U average metacritic score is not higher . Thought that it would be the highest one with a decent gap from second place.


Where wiiu dominates is in exclusive content.



umegames said:
czecherychestnut said:

Results are:

Wii U: 68.14% from 206 games

XB1: 70.64% from 223 games

PS4: 72.06% from 286 games

Median

PS4 - 74%

Wii U - 72%

XB1 -  73%

 

1. awesome data you gathered

 

2. But with ps4 (according to this data) having 80 more games than the wii-u yet only being 1.5% better by median, thats not too impressive. It's pretty much equal to a basket ball player scoring 50 points on 100 shots, vs the next guy scoring 40 points on 60 shots. 

with more games shouldn't ps4 be sizable better, especially if it's the "better machine, with the best studios" as some tote?


This doesn't make any sense...it's an average of all of their scores. Adding 80 games to the Wii U wouldn't inherently raise it's score.



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to some of you guys saying things like, "this proves that ps4 has better games,"
while i'll be the first to admit that these statistics are consistently in favor of ps4, you guys are making it sound like an average of 72% is leaps and bounds better than an average of 70% or 68%. the numbers are all really close. if it were like 82% vs 70% or lower, then i can see this as utter dominance, but as it stands, there really isnt an outstanding difference between the mean and median scores for all the platforms.
plus, averages really isnt the best way to judge a library. none of us have to experience games that score 5 or lower, so therefore, scores like this that pull down the average are completely irrelevant.



RubberWhistleHistle said:
to some of you guys saying things like, "this proves that ps4 has better games,"
while i'll be the first to admit that these statistics are consistently in favor of ps4, you guys are making it sound like an average of 72% is leaps and bounds better than an average of 70% or 68%. the numbers are all really close. if it were like 82% vs 70% or lower, then i can see this as utter dominance, but as it stands, there really isnt an outstanding difference between the mean and median scores for all the platforms.
plus, averages really isnt the best way to judge a library. none of us have to experience games that score 5 or lower, so therefore, scores like this that pull down the average are completely irrelevant.

Actually, if you filter the data like I did (removing all games with less than seven reviews) the WiiU has the best percentages of good games/total games althougth the PS4 does have a absolute highest number of good games.

But even then you are correct about the numbers being close. I think the biggest gap that ever occured was 8% between WiiU and Xboxone (at >80 level)



People talking about how small is the gap between the Wii U and the Ps4 without taking in consideration that the Wii U has more than TWICE the time on the market is interesting to say the least.

People trying to alienate great indies and remaster of great games, but at the end of the day:

Games = Games