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catprog on 12 March 2008

I was sick and tired of people saying wii has a higher ratio of bad games to good games so I made the following graph to show it wasn't as bad compared with others. Unfortnatly the graph supports their view.

Supprisinly their is not that much diffrence between 5 of the consoles.

 

 

This is a graph I made of the last 6 consoles.

It shows the metacritic scores in 1% of games increments across the bottem.

The Left axis is the rating.

 





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De85 on 12 March 2008

Interesting. I was going to crunch some numbers and do a study on this, but hadn't found the time. You just saved me a lot of time.



akuma587 on 12 March 2008

Nice handiwork. This is one of the best user created graphs/charts I have seen in quite awhile.

I was pretty surprised how highly the PS3 and the 360 came out relative to their brethren. I would expect the PS2's to be a little lower than some of the other systems because the shovelware is larger than the triple AAA stuff. But man, the Wii did pretty badly on that graph. At least it has a lot of games on the high end. Shovelware ftw!



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catprog on 12 March 2008

And here is the top 10 for each console.

 

The extra year for the 360 helps it quite a bit.

The same for the previous generation as well. 

 

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http://catprog.org

Online games that I play:

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LordTheNightKnight on 12 March 2008

So the Wii has a slightly lower review curve than other systems. Still not the argument for a shovelware dump that its accused of.



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catprog on 26 March 2008

Since the last update

7 games have been released for all the consoles.

3 new Ps2 games have been released.

This does not really affect the graph and thus a new one is not posted.

 

 



My websites

http://catprog.org

Online games that I play:

http://www.animecubed.com/billy/?Catprog

 

catprog on 22 April 2008

Latest

2 new PS3 games
10 new PS2 games
8 new Wii games
8 new 360 games

 



My websites

http://catprog.org

Online games that I play:

http://www.animecubed.com/billy/?Catprog

 

mrstickball on 22 April 2008

Very very neat chart, catprog!

It's insane to see that the Wii definately has the lower reviewed games by a very, very long shot (atleast in comparison to the average for the other 5 systems).



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bluesinG on 22 April 2008

Interesting idea, but these distributions only matter if you plan to play (a) ALL of the games on a system, or (b) a COMPLETELY RANDOM SAMPLE of games on a system.

If you plan to choose the games you play with some eye toward professional reviews, personal recommendations, etc. (rather than at random), then the ratio of good to bad games doesn't matter AT ALL... as long as there are enough good games on the system (in terms of absolute number, not ratio) to keep you busy.



jlauro on 22 April 2008

I don't care if there is shovel ware on the wii. Part of it is due to developers being unprepared for it's success and trying to cash in. As the library expands, developers will know that will not work well any long and stop giving it such a higher ratio of shovel ware...

As long as good games are made for the wii, I can pick and choose... ignoring lower quality games...