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JWeinCom said:
MDMAlliance said:
kupomogli said:

I'd disagree.  The 3DS and Vita both have good games, but the Vita has more games that are good.  The problem with the Vita is that it shares most of the games with the PS3.  Opinion only, but if you were to compare like titles between 3DS and Vita, the Vita games have been much better quality whether it's graphics or gameplay.


Purely subjective and most gamers would disagree with that assessment. 


Well, for some more objective data...

Looking at retail games only the Vita has 16 games to score above an 80% average critic score.  Of the 16, 5 are exclusive to the Vita. 1 scored above 90% (Persona 4) and is not exclusive.  The 3DS has 22 games to score 80% or above.  Of those, 12 are exclusive to the 3DS.  One game (Re: Revelations) was a timed exclusive for 3DS.  3 games scored above a 90%.  Two of them (Fire Emblem Awakening, Super Mario 3D Land) were exclusives, and one (Ocarina of Time 3D) was non-exclusive. 

Some people are going to be all like "blah blah media is biased blah blah".  To those people, I say if you have a better objective source of information, let me know :)

Journalist reviews are still subjective.  You don't think journalists have bias?  Sometimes there's more to sway them than just their opinion.

I'll also point out that your scores are cherry picked.  You remove digital games and instead of 80 and above, you state above 80.  Why is that.  Not hard to figure out.  Far less digital games on the 3DS, two instead of six, and the 3DS has only one game that scores 80(a digital game,) while the Vita has three retail games that score 80.  Digital included that scored 80 and above is 25 on the Vita, 26 on the 3DS.  The 3DS still wins, but it's not cherry picking for the advantage of one over the other.  One thing I can point out though is thatwith the Vita having far less games, the ratio of 80 and above games is far better on the Vita than the 3DS. 

Resident Evil Revelations though.  After a year of mostly garbage on the 3DS, this is one of the first high profile games on the 3DS.  It also had the benefit of being released after Resident Evil 6, because even though it's a crappy game, it's still better by a long shot.  It was ported to the HD consoles recently.  How did that fare?  Pretty big coincidence that the HD consoles user score averages out to 7.4 with far more votes than the 3DS user score.

There's also Nintendo first party games that score high just because they're Nintendo.  Sure it pushes hard towards opinion, but I made a post comparing a list of games against a lot of the recent Nintendo software that's been better, only to score lower.  Again it's just an opinion that proves nothing unless the people have played the games, but even then, most Nintendo fans probably wouldn't agree with it regardless of how piqued their interest is with these games.  They won't agree that 2D Mario games, etc, have been garbage for the past decade.  The only possible way to prove it as a fact is to some find prodigal gamers who haven't touched a game yet can instantly adapt to gamelpay like most gamers can, so they wouldnt' have any bias, then have them play through each game and give their unbiased opinion.

Like I confirmed in my second post.  Yes, I think most people are sheep.  Gives yet another reason to why Nintendo games are so prominent.