Edge vs. Metacritic (Bias Confirmed!!!)

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DarthVolod said:

ElRhodeo said:
Hm, another possible explanation is that Edge isn't biased, they just thought the PS3 games were worse than the 360 games. Shock!

That's called a 'result', something that comes AFTER examining / testing.
'Bias' means judging BEFORE you tried it.

You know, according to your (very popular) definition of 'bias', any comparison that doesn't result in "all contestants are equally good" is biased. That's pointless.

 

Thanks for pointing out exactly what is wrong with the majority of these bias claims. We are to assume that all PS3 and Xbox 360 exclusives are of equal quality ... unlikely.

 

In a way it is no surprise 360 games would be reviewed higher since, for the most part, 360 exclusives are safe games in very popular genres like shooters (Halo, Left 4 dead, and Gears of War series) while PS3 games have been a bit more high risk / experimental recently. (Heavy Rain, MAG, White Knight Chronicles, Demon's Souls).

I just don't see the bias even with the questionable graphs. It would be far more suspicious to me if both PS3 and 360 console exclusives were given nearly the same scores. If they just handed out 9's and 10's to every game regardless of quality then they would just be Game Informer. 

 

And before I am accused of anything, I own both consoles and play on both and blah blah blah. 

If you think about it, that doesn't make any sense.