| binary solo said: I believe that X360 has more top scoring games (85+?) but has a much longer tale of crapware (thanks in part to a larger Kinect library than PS3 has a Move library I suspect). Sony has a bigger proportion of middle ground of scores. As most games on the 2 systems are multiplats, shared between them it's logical to assume the scores will be roughly equal, albeit for most multiplats MS has usually got the better score because of the fact the PS3 version is lower quality (with a few exceptions). That's why if you want to know which systems give the more highly reviewed unique gaming experience you need to look at the absolute exclusives (i.e. not the console exclusives). Unfortunately there are so few of those on 360 aside from Kinect games, that the Kinect effect will skew the 360 meta average much lower than PS3 (because like Move games, Kinect games generally have meta scores on the low side. So it really requires the elimination of the Kinect and Move titles to give a reasonable comparison. But then, the number of absolute exclusives on 360 is considerably lower than PS3, which means the 360 sample size can potentially have outlier biasing of its meta score. So, it's basically a pointless pissing contest. You could maybe do a Wii/PS3 comparison because they both have a high number of exclusives. Unfortunately Wii, as the dominant console when it counted, and the new toy when all the buzz was happening, got the lion's share of exclusive crapware. But what we do know about all the consoles is this: PS3 500 games with a green score on meta critic 360 620 games with a green score Wii 199 games with a green score Conclusion: Each console has enough well reviewed games to satisfy the vast majority of gamers, though the Wii is noticeably lagging. Considering plenty of the 65-74 meta games are worth playing for many people. If review scores were a valid measure of game quality all 3 consoles are well served in good games. Among all those well reviewed games there's got to be at least 50 on each console that any given gamer will enjoy playing. |
Exclusives comparisons have been done to death and there will always be some form of biased. This is purely base on the data presented by Metacritic.
As for the bolded, your figures are quite missleading, if you want to go that route, they you have to take into consideration the number of games rated or included by metacritic. The XBOX360 has over 400 more games listed in Metacritic as compared to the PS3
| PS3 | XBOX360 | |||
| Count | Contribution | Count | Contribution | |
| Games with green scores | 501 | 41.78 | 622 | 38.59 |
| Games with yellow scores | 599 | 49.96 | 800 | 49.63 |
| Games with red scores | 99 | 8.26 | 190 | 11.79 |
| Total | 1199 | 100.00 | 1612 | 100.00 |
As you can see from the table, the PS3 may only have 501 games that have green ratings, but it accounts for 41.78% of the total rated games, while the XBOX360 has 622 games that have green ratings, but it accounts to 38.59% of the total rated games. A quick look would tell us that the PS3 has more quality games VS total rated games as oppose to the 360.
Without looking into individual scores, we could assume that the PS3's library has more quality games vs crappy games.
Edit:
Also, with respect to average score for green rated games.
PS3 - 82.11 from 501 reviewed games
XBOX360 - 81.73 from 622 reviewed games.
Your claim that the well reviewed games of the XBOX360 has an average of 85 is false as base on Metacritic's data, the PS3 also has the edge there.
