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EdHieron on 12 June 2012
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saicho said:
endimion said:
to me the winner of a gen is the console with the largest attach rate/most game sold total.... because that is what matters the most for most area of that business.... for the constructor, devs, retailers and well if customer buy more games per unit than the competition.... then it must me they find it quite more appealing in general....

Total Software: Wii/X360/PS3 - 792.01/641.83/553.14

Attach rate: X360/PS3/Wii - 9.58/8.53/8.23

UnitSmiley said:

Far too many are just looking at sales. Yes sales are important for the company but the wii made most of it's cash off of casuals. Not that i'm even saying that's a bad thing.  But you have to look at what each Console offers the core gamer. Sony is by far doing the best job.

I don't understand this statement. why does cash off casuals don't count?

EdHieron said:

As far as Sony as a first party developer being the weakest of the three "Uncharted II" won 2009's Game of the Year and "Uncharted III" was a top contender for game of the year in 2011, and Naughty Dog's "The Last of Us" is the most heralded game coming out of this year's E3.  When have Nintendo or Microsoft had a first party game of that received any of the accolades of any of the Uncharted games or of The Last of Us?  On top of that they also have "God of War" which is far better than or equal to any first party title from either Microsoft or Nintendo.

SMG 1 and 2 are the best reviewed games this gen. Better than Uncharted 2 and 3.

God of War game is not even the best reviewed GOW games this gen.


Well, you know some times reviewers make mistakes case in point GTA IV and sometimes when there's not much competition on a machine reviewers tend to lose a bit of perspective ie, giving Zelda:  Ocarina of Time a 10 when it wasn't any better than Metal Gear Solid or Final Fantasy VII, giving Metroid Prime on Gamecube the highest review score of its gen when it wasn't equal to Halo I or II, the GTAs or a plethora of other games on PS2 or as is most likely the case with SMG and SMG II ie. receiving the benefit of scores that were a couple of points too high just because there was a serious dearth of anything else on Wii.  Neither of the Super Marios came anywhere near winning as many Game of the Year Awards as did Uncharted II and III.

If you want to take into account the number of games with aggregate review scores of 75 or above on Playstation 3 versus the number of games with aggregate review scores of 75 and above on Wii, the PS3 and the 360 have over 300 games with aggregate review scores of 75 and above and the Wii only has 150 games with cumulative review scores of 75.

If you want to look at the just the very best games of the gen, Sony has 40 games with aggregate review scores of 90 or above and they made 12 of those.  Wii only has 14 games with aggregate review scores of 90 or above and Nintendo made 7 of those, and the 360 has 45 games with aggregate review scores of 90 and above and Microsoft made 11 of those.