PS3 Sales Surpass the X Box 360 & the Wii in America

[Terjyn]

Originally Posted by xtop

that is why people say the ps3 has no games. 11 games with a 90 or higher vs 3 with a 90 or higher. thankfully tho the ps3 has been picking it up, and will certainly make this up over the course of this year.

Since when does a game require 90+ in order to be a good game?

Furthermore, and I've said this before, Metacritic will have higher Xbox scores by default than PS3. This is because there are more reviewers for the 360 than there are for PS3.

If a game gets 100 100 100 100 100 70 for 360 and 100 100 100 100 70 for PS3, the 360's average is 95 and the PS3s is 94. Does this really mean that the PS3 version is worse?

This does work in the reverse. Terrible games will tend to have a higher score on PS3 than they do on 360...but nobody cares.

Seriously, go count. (Almost) every single game has more reviews for 360 than for PS3 on metacritic.

As a result of this actually, when the two scores are identical (Call of Duty 4, for example), this implies the PS3 game is actually a better game due to metacritic's natural handicapping of the score in favor of the Xbox.

None of this is metacritics fault, it's just how it works.

Much like attach rates, what metacritic does can not be applied cross platform.