Review Inflation

[Slimebeast]

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

Slimebeast said:

In this thread axumblade breaks the myth about inflated review scores:
http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=91272

axumblade said:

routsounmanman said:
Too many 90+ this gen...

Actually....Looking at metacritic (i know right...)

Gamecube had 26  games at 90 or above, while the Wii only has 9. Xbox had 32 games at 90 or above whereas the 360 has only 24. And of course the 63 PS2 games that were 90 or above tramples the 15 for the PS3.

Last generation had 121 games at 90 or above. We have still only 48 games this generation at 90 or above. So in order for it to reach that number from last generation 73 more games need to hit 90 over the next few years.

 

I do want to mention that, at least in my view, the 'inflation of review scores' started halfway through last gen.  And most of the inflated scores came near the end of last gen.

Ignoring that completely however, we're not even done with this generation.  And a lot of what could be keeping that score down is there's simply no console this gen that is a 'PS2'.  No one console is going to generate so much attention that its going to garner so much uniform positive attention (aka positive bias) from reviewers.  Instead, reviewers are having to often review the same game on two different consoles (360/PS3) and then have a whole different rating system for Wii games.

In any event, I don't think just adding up all the totals of review scores disproves their inflation of scores.  That's like saying judges at figure skating contests don't lower certain contestants scores simply because they add up all the scores at the end to make an avg.

What's a better method then to prove rather than just speculate?