short and simple: no

has metacritic become the sole factor to judge games now?

Nope. You just have to look at the developers of said games and the average scores/sales from said developers. Sony devs have differing potential, sales and score-wise. 1st and 2nd party.

You have your A list developers where the games tend to review well and sell well - Naughty Dog, Santa Monica, Polyphony Digital.

You have your B list developers where games can review "well" but not sell quite as well - Guerilla Games, Quantic Dream, Media Molecule, Insomniac, Sucker Punch.

The others fall into C category, where they fill the gaps where no big games are releasing. These games arent really supposed to be up there with the likes of Uncharted, God of War and Gran Turismo. These games are on the market to keep people playing PlayStation or talking about PlayStation when there isnt a Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, Need for Speed, FIFA, Madden, Uncharted, Gran Turismo or whatever releasing.

That said, with so many 70+ rated games things dont seem too bad. For a more successful attempt Jay you should have listed sales instead of scores, because a lot of those games bombed hard.

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I look forward to your threads on Nintendo 1st party and Microsoft 1st party offerings over the last 2 Years.

The past two years? I believe Nintendo combined with MS would struggle to beat Sony in this time period. The support is awesome, it's just a huge pity most games are on PS3 instead of Vita.

2012-2013

Wind Waker - 90
Pikmin 3 - 87
New Super luigi U - 77 
Nintendo Land - 77
Pokemon XY - 88
Professor Layton and Azran Legacy - 81
Pheonix Wright Ace Attorny - 81
Mario and Luigi Dream Team - 81
Animal Crossing: New Leaf - 88
Mario & DK Minis - 78
Luigi's Mansion: Dark moon - 86
Fire Emblem: Awakening - 92
Paper Mario: Sticker Star - 75
Professor Layton: Miracle Mask - 82
New Super Mario Bros 2 - 78
Kid Icarus: Uprising - 83

Ratchet and Clank: Full Frontal Assault is also below 70.

I would have to disagree with the matching Nintendo thing. Sony have too many teams that work on the filler stuff and the handheld support is abysmal in comparison to Nintendo.

So much for trying to bring peace to the site I guess.

And no they have not been disappointing to me. I've loved over half those games. Besides it's all subjective anyway.

I'm really glad you took the time to put that list together, but what's your point?

More than half the games on there were not disappointing at all! Latest example being Puppeteer, which got an 80 and it's one of my favorite games this gen.

A game doesn't have to score above 90 on metacritic to be a non disappointing game, ya know!

Nintendo is posted above.  And we all know MSFT hasnt put out much in the last two years.  No secrets there.  

EDIT: Posted in the OP as well

No, review scores all bull. Lot's of great games on that list.