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sinha on 25 July 2007

A lot of it depends on what list you use. Metacritic has Halo at 97 and Halo 2 at 95, so if you added Halo 2 to the list above, the average sales would obviously improve quite a bit.
And there are a few PS2 games at 95 that are not on that list but sold well, like GTA Vice City.



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

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sinha on 25 July 2007
HappySqurriel said:
fazz said:
Man, I loved Soul Calibur and Metroid Prime and Tony Hawk 2 and Wind Waker. Awezome games!

The Dreamcast had lots of quality games, some of them very polished, some of them very artistic. But in the end, it couldn't survive to the PS2's launch hype :(

I have never been of the people that thinks that if a console has the best games, it will sell the best... I mean, look at PS1 and PS2... their quality-to-crappy-games ratio was pretty low... in contrast look at DC and GC... so, you got it, didn't ya?

Yeah, one of the things I wanted to point out but didn't want in the original post was that a console can have one of the highest rated games of a generation released early in its lifespan and still end up far behind the competition.


Well, I don't know about quality-to-crappy ratio, but number of games on each console with a Metascore of 94+ (like the games listed above):

PS2: 16

GC: 6 (including Zelda Twilight Princess and Zelda Collector's Edition)

Xbox: 7

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Edit: that's 16/1459 (.011) for PS2 and 6/501 (.012) for GC, so the ratios are quite similar.



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

LeroyBrown on 25 July 2007

Ah Metacritic, the great justifier.



sinha on 25 July 2007
LeroyBrown said:
Ah Metacritic, the great justifier.

Uhh, Gamerankings is affiliated with Metacritic.

And I don't think anyone seriously questions the objectivity of either. If there are differences in the scores I'm sure they are very slight, one may have used some review that the other didn't use for whatever reason.



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

 

libellule on 25 July 2007

@fazz,
"The Dreamcast had lots of quality games, some of them very polished, some of them very artistic. But in the end, it couldn't survive to the PS2's launch hype :("

==> u get it baby !!!

Hype is everything.



Time to Work !

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Nairu on 25 July 2007

I find it funny that Metroid Prime is never really mentioned in the same breath as Halo by many reviewers and many casual gamers yet i can point out numerous websites in which it has higher reviews than it. Also MP2 IMO was of a better quality than Halo2, dont get me wrong, i love the Halo games, just strange thats all. I know they are different genres, Halo being a FPS and MP being a FPA but its easy to make comparisons which Halo always seems to come out on top of. Just wondering why, if thats the case, Halo is graded lower than MP.



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ckmlb on 25 July 2007

No Final Fantasy X?



Thanks to Blacksaber for the sig!

WiteoutKing on 25 July 2007

or Final Fantasy VII?



PS3: 5.51m/51w, avg 108,039/w (up 239)
360: 12.93m/102w, avg 126,764/w (up 625), leads PS3 by 7.42m (up 70k), avg lead 18,725/w (up 386)
Wii: 13.52m/51w, avg 265,098/w (dn 1,102), leads PS3 by 8.01m (up 90k), avg lead 157,059/w (dn 1,341)

If 360 sales stabilize, PS3 sales increases needed to pass 360 by...
01/08: (008w) +875.8%, 04/08: (021w) +344.4%, 07/08: (034w) +219.3%, 10/08: (047w) +163.5%
01/09: (060w) +131.8%, 04/09: (073w) +111.4%, 07/09: (085w) +098.1%, 10/09: (099w) +086.7%
If Wii sales stabilize, PS3 sales increases needed to pass Wii by...
01/08: (008w) +1072.%, 04/08: (021w) +498.4%, 07/08: (034w) +363.4%, 10/08: (047w) +303.1%
01/09: (060w) +269.0%, 04/09: (073w) +246.9%, 07/09: (085w) +232.6%, 10/09: (099w) +220.3%
If PS2 sales freeze, Wii sales increases needed to pass PS2 (as of Mar07, 108.4m) by...
2008: (008w) +4373.8%, 2009: (060w) +0496.5%, 2010: (112w) +0219.6%, 2011: (165w) +0116.9%
2012: (217w) +0064.9%, 2013: (269w) +0033.1%, 2014: (321w) +0011.5%, 2015: (376w) -0004.8%
At +0% it will pass it in 358w, the week ending September 19th, 2014, at an age of 409w (7y44w).
Current age of PS2: 7y37w.

Last update: Week ending November 3, 2007

HappySqurriel on 25 July 2007
ckmlb said:
No Final Fantasy X?

#35 highest ranked PS2 title at 91.4%

WiteoutKing said:
or Final Fantasy VII?

#9 ranke PLAYSTATION title at 92.5%



HappySqurriel on 25 July 2007

I thought I would add the scores and ranking of the top 5 selling games on each platform:

Gamecube

gamesalesscoreranking
Mario Kart: Double Dash6.60 M87.0%#37
Super Smash Bros Melee6.58 M90.0%#19
Super Mario Sunshine5.91 M91.5%#10
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker4.38 M94.7%#3
Luigi Mansion3.39 M79.2%#117

XBox

gamesalesscoreranking
Halo 28.24 M94.6%#2
Halo6.43 M95.6%#1
Tom Clancy Splinter Cell2.93 M92.5%#11
Fable2.60M84.9%#103
Grand Theft Auto Double Pack2.22 M94.6%#3

PS2

gamesalesscoreranking
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas14.88 M95.2%#3
Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec14.84 M94.3%#5
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City14.20 M94.1%#6
Grand Theft Auto 311.60 M95.3%#2
Gran Turismo 48.11 M89.1%#56