The game ratings are just for fun. They're from us, the community.

The things that matter, the sales and charts for games and consoles are not based on the community's preferences, they're hard facts.

There may be more Wii owners than 360 or PS3 owners...but it is the most popular console right now, you can't really deny that.

Because the Wii is a fun system that anyone can play. I'm a 23 year old veteran so I don't want to hear that talk about "kiddie system", it's a fun system that I can play, I can play with my nieces and I can play with my parents. Everybody enjoys it rather you like it or not and it's affordable

The Halo 3 site is this way

http://www.halo3.com/

You know veteran, as a gaming forum, this site has suprisingly high average age, from what i have been noticing. Here are people, who have been gaming before you were born. So the people who are ranting about Nintendo being "kiddie", are the 15 year old PS fanboys, which i find ironic.

 It is sad, but true

Actually, I think Nintendo's domination of the rankings is partly because Nintendo has really made many of the best games ever made; and partly it's because it has been doing so for so long. Of the top 10 rated Nintendo-made games on this site's ranking list, 5 are NES or SNES, i.e. from consoles that predate Sony's video game career, let alone Microsoft's.

Most people don't like to come to a site that says their console is losing in sales. Most 360 and PS3 fans prefer not to be reminded that Wii is outselling their favorite consoles. They prefer to go to system war boards and debate on who is going to get 2nd place (winner amongst the REAL next gen according to them ). They typically ignore the Wii altogether and a lot of the realistic sales data along with it. This is a sales site, and currently the leader in sales trends is Nintendo, thus you see more Nintendo owners interested in sales research because it makes them feel better about their choice and also the excitement surrounding this huge shift in the industry.

If Sony were blowing everyone away, then this site would be swarmed by Sony fans, and if 360 was destined to beat everyone by millions, then these boards would be filled with 360 fans. The fact of the matter is, they aren't so it's not.

EDIT: Oh and the reason why this site's news may seem prominently Nintendo or has a seemingly Nintendo centric twist is because the Wii is selling faster than any console ever has. It is creating an outcome between the debate of graphic progression and new inputs that is against what the industry initially believed. Nintendo also has been declining while Sony has been king, until Wii which flipped the charts upside down. All of this commotion and excitement as listed above is a huge deal on a sales tracking site for market watchers. It is a VERY VERY big deal and seeing just how far the Wii is going to go and how many records it will break and set is part of the fun and intrigue of what makes a site like this so great.

What games we will be playing next generation and what type of consoles, controls, graphics, and styles we are going to be enjoying next generation all starts right here with these sales numbers. These are the best oracle that you could have into the future of the game industry.

Yes, it's true that Nintendo makes quality games. That would be an explanation for why Nintendo games do well on the Gamerankings all-time chart. But that's obviously NOT why it dominates the vgchartz game rankings. Nintendo games dominate the vgchartz game rankings because this site is full of Nintendo fanboys who go through and give high scores to all those games, and give low scores to non-Nintendo games.

It doesn't seem to be working right now, but last time I checked (July 26):

"In the vgchartz game rankings, Nintendo games take up 32 of the top 33 spots (Final Fantasy VII for the PS is the only non-Nintendo game, at #29 with an 8.08 rating, the only non-Nintendo game with a score of 8 / 10 or above). The next 13 spots (from 34 to 46) include 10 more Nintendo games, so 42 of the top 46 games on vgchartz are from Nintendo, compared to 2 from Sony and 0 from Microsoft."

Go through sometime and look at all the random Xbox 360 games that have like a 3 rating based on five votes. Gears of War was at 6.6 at one point. It doesn't really matter (and please tell that to the people bothering to give these games such low scores), but that doesn't change the fact that those who are going through and rating down games they have never even played based on the platform are absolute douchebags.

Some Xbox 360 game scores on vgchartz:

Oblivion: 7.44, PGR 3: 5.00, CoD 3: 4.35, Rayman Raving Rabbids 4.64, Quake 4: 3.82, Project Sylpheed 3.29, two NFS games: 4s, two GRAW games: 6s, Lost Planet 6.70, Lord of the Rings: 2.13(!!), CoD 2: 5.78, Dead Rising 7.14, Fight Night 3: 5.63

So - what's your point?  Nintendo's site is this way: http://www.nintendo.com

@seinster: Do you post about anything else? The only place where this bias seems really evident is in user-generated polls. The data isn't gathered by those people, and I feel like the majority of the people who post here are civilized and intelligent relative to the rest of the gaming web community (which is the cream of the crap for internet communities, but still). As a multi-console site focusing on who's "winning the war", there's a remarkable amount of communication between people who favor one console or another. In fact, the only time it seems to break down is when someone comes in and starts complaining about a percieved systematic bias, or how all the Nintendo fans are bombing all over anything non-Nintendo related. While there are a) more Nintendo fans here proportionally (for reasons already enumerated) and b) there are idiot-trolls (this is the internet), I find that, for the most part, Nintendo (and Sony and Microsoft) fans don't unnecessarily shit on each other here, and if they have something negative to say about another console or game on a console, it's not completely ridiculous.

So really, calm down.

@sinha: It is douchey to troll the ratings. I'm just not convinced that anyone pays any attention to the end result. It's a very different situation than say, rateyourmusic.com, because here it's really tangential to why most people come to this site.