I updated my MetaScore charts again, now with 2023 complete:
I added some new data about the cumulative number of unique games with a MetaScore of 75+, 80+, 85+ and 90+
Until this year, the number was inflated by different versions of the game.
For example, GTA V was counted for every platform with at least 7 reviews, five versions of them as 90+ game.
Another example is Limbo. Two versions were counted as 90+ game, three versions as 85+ game, the rest wasn't counted due to less than 7 reviews:
This is fine, if you want to know how much good games a single platform has, so if you filter platform by platform, MetaCritic still shows the score of the individual versions and counts them to the release years of these versions.
But if you don't set a platform filter, these games are only counted once since the MetaCritic relaunch. Score and release date of the most popular version (aka the version with the most "critic reviews") if you don't filter by platform.
That is often the first platform a game launch, but not always... the PS4 version of GTA V had more reviews than the older versions.
With this additional data I compared the annual number of game versions with the aannual number of unique games:
