@RolStoppable

A interesting viewpoint though somewhat aside from the point. Microsoft and Sony have different approaches when it comes to library development. Sony obviously has more internal capacity. While Microsoft has more support from third party developers. The strategies basically cancel one another out. It makes no real difference to gamers as to where the games they play came from. If you want to judge victory by volume then it would probably be Microsoft that is winning.

Further more I am not using this data to explain hardware sales. I am saying there may be a causal link. In this case the software performing on par may cause the general public to see no real distinction between the machines. To go further I even said it could be the other way around. The hardware sales are resulting in the parity of software. What I am saying is these two things could be linked.

@Troll_Whisperer

I certainly wouldn't toss out a principle like critical mass. Which is what both players have at this point in this console generation, and have had for quite some time. I am not arguing a starting position, but a point of equilibrium that can develop later in a generation may be a real possibility. Let me put it to you this way if the software average for one were to increase by say ten percent do you think it would be reflected in console sales or not.

As for the second part of your question. Give me a few hours, and I will bring out a hundred quotes from users on these forums claiming a superiority of one platforms first party developers over another. Did I expect there to be a difference. Not a large one mind you maybe two or three points difference. I was looking to see if there wasn't evidence that there wasn't a big gap. Instead I found no gap at all. Which is entirely contrary to what I have read on these forums for years.

@Khuutra

Pseudo games would be like Home, Fun Labs, and 1 vs 100. Where the product isn't quite a game, and it isn't quite something else.

Didn't know there was a typo. Also, I meant excluding previous first party such as Halo 3 for the criteria being weird.

What are the medians of those data sets?

@SeductiveReasoning

I believe it would be 73,23 for the Sony set, and 73.35 for the Microsoft set.

@Topic

I am going to take it then that my data is accepted as factually correct seeing as nobody has raised even a single objection on those grounds. I believe that means that this data point has moved into the realm of what amounts to common knowledge on these forums.

So what if the average is the same, a small game that gets a 50 is not equal to a game that scores a 90. Factor in how much each game sold and the data should say more. So take the game score and multiply it by that game's sales. Add these up for each game and divide by the total sales. This gives you the average score per game sold, not the average score per game developed.

Sorry if I missed the info somewhere in the thread, but why are you not including PSP/ PSVita titles done by Sony-owned studios?

There are quite a few, I'd list them if you want.