pleaserecycle on 27 December 2015
As 2015 comes to a close, how did Nintendo's new releases compare to previous years? I went to the review aggregate website, gamerankings.com, and pulled every game published by Nintendo in North America. In the tables below, I've listed the average review score for each year or console. Please note that NES and VB titles are not included because they're not tracked at gamerankings.
Charts current as of 26 December 2015.
| Year | # of Games Released | # of Reviews | Average Review Score |
| 1989 | 8 | 38 | 71.75 |
| 1990 | 3 | 8 | 66.81 |
| 1991 | 11 | 53 | 81.76 |
| 1992 | 12 | 58 | 80.51 |
| 1993 | 11 | 41 | 78.65 |
| 1994 | 17 | 77 | 82.19 |
| 1995 | 16 | 55 | 81.46 |
| 1996 | 17 | 128 | 81.29 |
| 1997 | 18 | 162 | 82.88 |
| 1998 | 22 | 249 | 81.87 |
| 1999 | 24 | 259 | 79.64 |
| 2000 | 23 | 364 | 82.62 |
| 2001 | 20 | 671 | 85.62 |
| 2002 | 16 | 721 | 85.81 |
| 2003 | 25 | 1113 | 83.73 |
| 2004 | 38 | 1362 | 79.23 |
| 2005 | 37 | 1674 | 79.11 |
| 2006 | 35 | 1385 | 78.05 |
| 2007 | 29 | 1257 | 77.65 |
| 2008 | 17 | 682 | 78.03 |
| 2009 | 20 | 610 | 83.04 |
| 2010 | 24 | 726 | 82.41 |
| 2011 | 24 | 819 | 79.85 |
| 2012 | 24 | 654 | 78.02 |
| 2013 | 20 | 821 | 80.80 |
| 2014 | 23 | 924 | 81.19 |
| 2015 | 21 | 744 | 73.75 |
What do you think of the numbers? I've also broken down reviews by console.
| Console | # of Games Released | # of Reviews | Average Review Score |
| Game Boy | 60 | 240 | 77.06 |
| Game Boy Color | 36 | 343 | 84.48 |
| Game Boy Advance | 67 | 2161 | 81.50 |
| DS | 100 | 3808 | 80.18 |
| 3DS | 61 | 2052 | 78.69 |
| SNES | 47 | 227 | 83.32 |
| N64 | 50 | 863 | 81.10 |
| GameCube | 50 | 2452 | 80.98 |
| Wii | 56 | 2269 | 79.79 |
| Wii U | 37 | 1240 | 78.44 |
Let me know if you'd like to see any other statistics. :)
