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aLkaLiNE on 24 March 2017
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malistix1985 said:
aLkaLiNE said:

And yet mass effect andromeda scored lower on PlayStation than Xbox despite a higher resolution and more consistent framerate. It's weird. 

Makes perfect sense most of those PS only websites just finished Nier and Horizon and get this open world game riddled with bugs while on Xbox its been quite quiet so those websites might be a bit more forgiving.

Also, some of the negative reviews might just not cover the xbox version as an alternative reason.

 

BraLoD said:
aLkaLiNE said:

And yet mass effect andromeda scored lower on PlayStation than Xbox despite a higher resolution and more consistent framerate. It's weird. 

That's up to the number of reviews.
Usually the version with the most reviews have the lowest score, because most of the criticism will be aimed there, while the other versions that have less reviews, lack the amount of lower scores to weight the same on them.
They are usually close to each other, though. Around 2 or 3 points of difference between themselves (for games without any particular disparity, as bad porting, for example).

 

Knitemare said:
aLkaLiNE said:

And yet mass effect andromeda scored lower on PlayStation than Xbox despite a higher resolution and more consistent framerate. It's weird. 

Maybe because in Xbox there are less titles that eclipse it, compared to PS4 library...

These aren't good enough answers to me. Last gen, AAA games often had more reviews on 360 AND reviewed higher. An arguement could be made that that is because ports often ran better on the 360 than the PS3.

Okay, fair enough.

This gen, there is a straightforward role reversal - multiplats run better on PS4 and the Ps4 also has more reviews. Hey they're still scoring lower? 

This is a case of bias. Do reviewers only review games in the context of that platform? There being other great exclusives on PlayStation that might be of higher quality than a given AAA multiplat shouldn't mean that your review scale only applies to that one platform. In other words, if you reviewed Quantum Break in a post uncharted 4 world, you should still hold your scoring against the best in the industry, regardless of if that game is on said platform or not.

 

Has halo only ever scored high critically because it's the best shooter within the Xbox platform, or because it's one of the best shooters in the industry? 

The lack of standards/quality control for reviews is a complete joke and should explicitly be the reason we can all point to sites like metacritic and dismiss them, and that goes all ways (not just for any platform in particular).