2013 to 2020 1st party reception and sales battle - Redone

[DonFerrari]

VAMatt said:
It is interesting to me that the average score is pretty close between all three of them. When you compare that to the huge discrepancy in raw numbers of games, and big discrepancy in numbers of highly rated games, where both Sony and Nintendo look much better than MS, I think that average can be seen to demonstrate one point where MS beats the others - they release less crap.

Some will complain about the lack of variety and certainly MS also reached lesser peaks of both critical acclaim and sales (and even on the averaged their GOTY have been almost inexistent), but yes MS have mostly achieved an average to good on their releases. Sure there will be the ones that like it hot or cold without middle ground but others like the middle and certainty that they will have a minimum level.

In the end I would say that the Sony fans know which studios they can buy without doing any previous checking, MS they can choose some IPs or even purchase any titles and it won't be broken, but for Nintendo outside of their flagships that fan will need to check if the series is what they like and etc (but sure that is due to they having a much higher output and associated studios due to having to feed their platforms almost by themselves and it being impossible to keep it feed with only stelar titles).

For that reason I put four different ways to look, individual games (sales, score and GOTY), totals, averages and stratified. This way we can see more than one side of the spectrum. And certainly if MS gave more sales numbers (instead of no numbers for the first half and players on the second half) their sales average would be considerably higher.