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Euphoria14 on 01 September 2009
COKTOE said:
Considering the Wii has so much shovelware, I'm surprised it's good games are enough to counter balance that meta-score average. Does meta-critic cover ALL the crap though? Will a game like Paws and Claws: Pet Vet even get enough reviews to garner a meta-acore? Anyways, good on Wii for the jump.


Paws and Claws does not have a Metascore because it has not recieved at least 4 reviews. This is why Metacritic is not as accurate for this as some may think.

This is a list of all games on the Wii that have scored from a 0 (not enough reviews) to a 66 between Jan 1st 2009 and July 31st, 2009.

You will immediately notice a ton of shovelware titles in there that do not have enough reviews to warrant a metascore.

 

You can check for the other 2 consoles as well, but the number or titles is nowhere near as large. This is a bogus article.



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Wii_Master on 01 September 2009

@Munkeh111 The wii has a lot of good titles coming out as wel just go check for your self. The wii agems in 2010 and wii games in 2009 they are both sticky in the nintendo forums. To let you know that Wii probabaly has a better holiday line-up than 360 and ps3. Also Wii Fit Plus may not recieve a high meta score bt its still a good game and NSMBWii will get a higher score. I will bet with you that NSMBWii will get a hgher score than Halo ODST. Nintendo's Big Franchise vs MS big Franchise. Winner changes Losers sig for a month.
And I am sorry if I sounded like a fanboy cause its just that I don't like it when People think Nintendo isn' important and is kiddy and MS and Soy rule.
I still like you Xbox and PS3


By the way I am typing this from my wii using a USB Keyboard. Wireless Mouse still doesn't workk...



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Munkeh111 on 01 September 2009
Wii_Master said:
@Munkeh111 The wii has a lot of good titles coming out as wel just go check for your self. The wii agems in 2010 and wii games in 2009 they are both sticky in the nintendo forums. To let you know that Wii probabaly has a better holiday line-up than 360 and ps3. Also Wii Fit Plus may not recieve a high meta score bt its still a good game and NSMBWii will get a higher score. I will bet with you that NSMBWii will get a hgher score than Halo ODST. Nintendo's Big Franchise vs MS big Franchise. Winner changes Losers sig for a month.
And I am sorry if I sounded like a fanboy cause its just that I don't like it when People think Nintendo isn' important and is kiddy and MS and Soy rule.
I still like you Xbox and PS3


By the way I am typing this from my wii using a USB Keyboard. Wireless Mouse still doesn't workk...

I won't take that bet because I don't really like Halo anyway, but I am just talking about metacritic ratings



darthdevidem01 on 01 September 2009

go PS3 & NDS!

glad to see Playstation back on top



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Mr Khan on 01 September 2009

So they're about even, then. Though this doesn't factor the low-profile shovelware, as previously stated.



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c03n3nj0 on 01 September 2009

It's actually more even then I expected.



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Aion on 01 September 2009

Yes such great games this gen.



 

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disolitude on 01 September 2009
puffy said:

EEDAR have released their findings for games released on each console between January and July 2009 with some interesting results.

XBOX 360 

2008 - 66

2009 - 67

 

PS3 

2008 - 68

2009 - 68

 

Wii

2008 - 60

2009 - 66

 

The big mover is obviously Wii with a 10% jump in overall quality this year matching the XBOX 360's 2008 library. The PS3 is still the leader sitting on 68 but the 360 is only one percentage point below. With the holiday season fast approaching, it'll be interesting to see how these values change, if at all.

source: http://www.industrygamers.com/news/the-divnich-debrief-wii-quality-sees-significant-improvement-in-2009/

lol at Wii comment..."matching the xbox 360 2008 library"

Yes, wii software is that good! Gears 2 and Fable 2 have been matched in quality!

Seriously though, someone should stop this madness...or atleast write "Matched xbox 350 aggregate quality in 2008"



Crashdown77 on 01 September 2009

Interestingly, whenever someone brings up Metacritic scores defending the 360 (i.e. 21 vs 13 90+ games, etc.), I see a lot of "Metacritic is skewed! Too many unreliable reviewers! You can't trust review scores, they all hate PS3! Whose pants are these?!". Apparently Metacritic is okay if it supports the PS3's superiority.



Barozi on 01 September 2009

As I said last year:
The average Metascore of every released game on a console is stupid.

Example: The PS3 could have 100 games with a score of 68 and the Xbox360 50 games with 90 & 50 games with 46.

Both have the same average, but obviously one console would be superior on this large scale.
-> It doesn't mean anything.