Makes perfect sense most of those PS only websites just finished Nier and Horizon and get this open world game riddled with bugs while on Xbox its been quite quiet so those websites might be a bit more forgiving.

Also, some of the negative reviews might just not cover the xbox version as an alternative reason.

To say X360 wasn't a thing in Europe is definetly an overstatement. Even in Italy, a storically PS dominated market, I knew a lot of people who have switched to 360 after the Ps2, a lot.

The reason why PS games have more media coverege (and had more media coverage even in Ps3 days) is more simple that it seems. It's because Sony is better and more proactive than its competitors to ensure its games get media coverage. That's one of the reasons of Playstation long-term success.

Also, during the Ps2 and Ps3 era, the fact that Playstion was market also as a multimedia machine, other than just a game console, ensuring the platform got more coverage even from techonogy and electorinics magazines and sites, not just on gaming focused media.

Playstation home consoles has some of the biggest market so it makes sense. You're not going to expect to see that kind of number of reviews on a Vita game lol

If we assume a metascore is good measure to evaluate a game (a statement I do not agree with), a larger number of review doesn't mean a lower score.

If ever it means a more precise score, since the higher count of measuraments can outweight outliers more easily (like a 4/10 score when most reviews are between 8 and 9).

Maybe because in Xbox there are less titles that eclipse it, compared to PS4 library...

It was the same around 10 years ago with the Xbox 360. It was always the most reviewed version among multiplatforms.

That's rather a stretch for gen 7... the PS3 only overtook the xbox360 when their relevance had decently faded, and the Wii outsold both.

Also, you'd have to describe what you consider to be the "hardcore" crowd... for a while there the only people Nintendo had left could easily be called "hardcore", in that they were willing to spend extra for what was generally not even their primary console to play some exclusives.

Tons of playstation magazines

Do you notice something? Both the Wii and X360 fizzled out towards the end of Gen 7 while the PS3 remained strong until the end. That is brand power and popularity. Nintendo and MS shouldn't kid themselves into thinking that they ever had a chance just because they mildly eclipsed a playstation in one gen for a bit. The fact that the PS3 pulled close despite having a much much weaker start and a platform marred by issues is proof of populaity. Look at what happens to other brands when they're panned from launch.

Riding on initial success is easy, catching up from below and staying on top is not, two things playstation was able to do while its competitors were not. That's why Playstation is currently and pretty much has ever been the strongest brand in gaming.

I think the hardcore crowd willing to invest in Nintendo is much smaller than the one backing Playstation. It's just natural that there is more content produced, e.g reviews, for the most popular platform.

As for Nintendo, I'm pretty sure that it misses out on at least on a couple of reviews just because of their draconian handling of their copyright.

Yep, pretty obvious and simple reasoning.