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First of all, these are Famitsu scores.

While they were some of the harshest graders of games in the past, it's generally acknowledged that they changed (read: lightened) their standards right around the turn of the century. So scores for later consoles will generally be higher (unfortunately, not for the Wii).

And of course it should also be pointed out that the lead selling platform will always have the most shovelware released for it simply by the merit of having the largest user base (hence the low Wii average).

If a non-leading platform has a lower average than the leading platform (average being hobbled by a lot of bad games with matching scores), odds are that platform has a lot more issues than just selling fewer hardware units.