Well, now that the Xone's mediocre launch lineup has been reviewed so it can finally hi-five the PS4's mediocre launch lineup, I can honestly say there's nothing in either lineups that seems to justify the £350-£430 entry cost to me. It's going to be another gen which I will wait 1-2 years to jump into probably.

On the Xone's games specifically though.
I'm really glad that Dead Rising turned out to be good. Wii port aside it means that they've done all 3 games well and it's great to see a franchise maintain its quality all the way through.
Killer instinct looks like a blast.
It's a pity about Crimson Dragon given its an historic franchise, but the game started development with Kinect's 'kiss of death' that plagued so many other famous franchises like Steel Battalion and Star Wars that were Kinect controlled, so I guess they could only fix the game so much even after being allowed to use a controller so late in its development.

Since MS owns Polygon(as I have been told in many 1080p discussions) why didnt they have them review Dead Rising higher. Ah Ha! They gave it a 7.5 to throw you off the scent of MS's review money hat. Very smooth MS, or maybe Polygon would normally give the game a 3 or 1 but paid them enough for the 7.5.

So my Dead Rising 3 prediction was pretty much on par with what it got.
The rest of my predictions were for the most part way off...
So from my predictions were still missing.
Fantasia-85
Ryse-83
Forza-90
Fighter within-4
Zumba-5
Its a solid start so far ,soon there will be peggle 2 and halo:sa but its in March where things will heat up with the release of Titanfall.

Ryse deserves an extra mark because of graphics?

Glad to see the conversation end on a good note.

This new gen sure is promising.

while we are on the subject, i find the "out of 5" scoring systems to be plucking copouts, increments of 20 for each point is inaccurate as hell, and needless drives up, or drives down averages because the reviewers lack the ability to accurately grade the game they are playing.

looks like system launch scores so far, nothing out of the norm yet.

It's just how I wouldn't go about it. Better games equals better launch to me.

So if a couple of crappy games brings down the average but it still has more higher rated games than the competitor, but they have a higher average so they have a better launch? To each their own I suppose. And outside of metas it's all subjective anyways.

Sales are going to be really interesting in their own right also :)

That there is a major argument over launch games is kind of awesome. It's fun to watch.

My personal opinion? Metacritic doesn't decide what I want to play--I decide what I want to play.   Neither 2D fighters or zombie horde games interest me but sci-fi FPS games do.  That means that the PS4 launch is probably better for me.  The exact opposite might be true for someone else.

Trying to pin down the "best" launch as some kind of absolute fact is ridiculous.