I didn't realize critics were supposed to try and take into account how other people would like the game.

SMS is alright... I meant galaxy though.

This thread is completely hilarious.

Professional Reviewers = Upmarket consumers.

Many 360 games = Upmarket
Many Wii games = Downmarket

Of course Professional Reviewers will agree with Upmarket games.

Anyway, back to the lulz.

The very fact that reviews fail to take into account differing tastes just highlights their utter futility and uselessness. A quality-based rating system will inevitably be elitist. Nobody holds absolutely identical ideas of how good games are. If they did, there would not be vast huge gaps between the best and worst review scores for things.

Quantity, not quality, is the only scientifically valid way to measure a product's success. It's a form of cognitive dissonance to accept this, because it means that you have to put aside your personal bias and look at things from a down-to-earth perspective instead of how you want things to be. And sometimes that means you have to accept that something you hate is in fact a better product than something you love. While Okami may be highly appealing to me and rates highly to me personally, I recognize that Okami is not a success on the same level as Halo 3 (which I do not personally like).

 Well, that is what a site like MetaCritic is basically doing.  By compiling a database of all these different tastes.  Not all of these people has similar tastes.  Therefore it is the games that bridge the gap of specific tastes and provide entertainment to the majority while also achieving a technical brilliance.

That's kind of missing the point. Tallying qualitative data in a quantitative form does not make it any less qualitative. Because your numeric data is still going to show bias towards the most prevalent qualitative components. And in the case of internet reviews, those components are most frequently values which apply only to those who are immersed in the gaming style prevalent on the PS2, PS3, 360, etc.

I'm confused. This is my history with Xbox:
I have a Wii.
I love it.
One day I felt like playing more games, and trying online, so I bought a 360.
I loved its graphics.
I bought Assassin's Creed.
While playing the game I ended up being able to replay Super Mario Galaxy faster than completing AC, because it was too repetitive and I wasn't able to play it longer than a hour or 2 per gameplay session max.
I ended up borrowing every single other game I played on the console, enjoying Orange Box the most of them(HL2 is a classic, but I already knew that).
I wanted to try Halo 3 online as the singleplayer was good, but I wanted more, but the M$ forced me into buying 3 MONTHS of Live, while I was only going to play for about two weeks. That ended up being two days, because I sucked bad in Halo 3 online. I got killed by every random n00b I encountered.
When I wanted to try Halo 3 local multiplayer on a party, as a nice addition to Mariokart Wii, I was surprised that it was too difficult to find the offline local-multiplayer option anywhere in the game. I was lucky I had downloaded Halo 1, but we played it and the multiplayer was shit, couldn't stand it. Singleplayer was só much better in that game.
I still love my Wii for all the great games I played on it.

That's Xbox 360, the so-called ''highest % AAA-game console'' of the generation.

if you want a gaming machine with a huge library of games , 360 is your choice....

Put some PS3 figures up and this can really get going...

this certainly brought all the wii fanboys out and bashing didnt it.

Holy hell.


Its everyones opinion for hells sakes...like the post 3 above me.

Good for you!. Ive still yet to complete SMG and ive hada wii for 6 months now because i find it extremely boring, and ive played AC twice through before finish SMG.
See i can play that too.


Lets just end this right now.


Wii=casual gaming If you like casual gaming, the wii is for you! Also platforming and family!

360=Hardcore gamer, If you like shooters/rpgs/racing and non casual gaming then its for you! Multiplayer? Then its for you!