Game Review Averages: PS3 Beats Xbox 360 and Wii

Next-Gen's Matt Matthews, perhaps the internet's #1 fan of game-related, coloured graphs, has dug through GameRanking's average review scores and discovered something a lot of you could probably have guessed anyways: when you add up all the Wii reviews and average them out, they're a little...awful.

How awful? See above. While every console of the past eight years (sorry Dreamcast) have seen their games average around 69-71%, the average Wii score is only 64%. Which leads to much hypothesizing in the piece about reviewers not "understanding" the Wii, theories on the impact of shovelware and how the Wii is short on AAA titles (Madden 07, for example, is still in the top 10-ranked games for the platform).

The full article has a lot more graphs and charts than just that one, so head on over if you'd like to see/read more.

[Anego Montoya FTMFW]

your year has been phenomenal so far.

FTMFW all 2008 and b3yond

[Kaz Hirai]

2008 shall be the most glorious year in PerfectionStation history! You all have King Kaz's guarantee!

MWAH-HA-HA-HA!!!

[leon76]

PS3 RULES!!!!!

[The Killer]

there is no point in resisting ps3 same as blue ray and HD DVD!

[sak500]

Yeah, keep shouting piss3 piss3 maybe it will one day become king of last gen in 2010.

[The XBOT]

Quick Stats from gamerankings

360
games between 70% and 80 are 196 (2.5 times more that the PS3)
Total games betweeb 80% and 90% are 74 (Double the PS3s)
Total games above 90% are 11 (3.6 times more that the PS3)

PS3
games above 90 are 3
game between 80 and 90 are 37
games betweeb 70% and 80 are 78

Any Questions?

[BrianC6234]

What was that drivel about The Xbot? It makes no sense. And the PS3 is all about quality over quantity. It doesn't have as many games as the 360 yet but it has a lot of great classics already. It doesn't get all the shovelware like the Wii and 360.

[FamilyGuy]

Well, im a PS3 supporter but i will have to shed some light on this.

The actual reason why the PS3s average is higher is NOT because it has less games or because it has been out for less time. It IS actually because the PS3 is more expensive to develop for, thus less "shovel ware".

We don't get tons of shovel ware like the wii because it would be a HUGE waste of a developers money, money that they would not turn a profit on. Even our "crap/shovel ware games actually TRY to be good games (Beowulf, they tried harder so it made it to the PS3). All the ones that dont try to be good games get made for the PS2 instead.

Im talking about movie game mostly. They're made to make a quick buck and are made on all platforms but usually made for the PS2 instead of the PS3 (even though they do come to the 360) because a PS3 version would make them MUCH less money if any at all.

So that's what i think is the main reason for the 360s lower score, i think they might be closer/even if the not for this. BUT! on the other hand, the PS3s score would be much higher than it is now if it weren't for a ton of... questionably low scores that good games received.

[MK_Red]

And Wii is the best selling system. It's kinda funny how the lower review average is, the higher that console's sales are.

It's time for Nintendo to stop allowing crap like Ninjabread Mand and Jenga on Wii.

[Relcom]

Reviews of 0 i have ever seen for a game. I would say there is 1 decent title for every 10 on the Wii. That has to change for me to buy one.

[Skerj]

They used to be known for harsh QC measures which is one of the things that drew developers to Sony's arena during the PS1 era. Looks like they need to put some of those back in place, because a lot of companies are seeing dollar signs over taking the time out to make a decent game. That relationship for the most part is symbiotic. There are a ton of things we can see from the system, they just have to get over this quick cash in phase for it to happen.

[MK_Red]

Relcom, definitly agreed. And the sad thing is that one good game among 10 is the least selling one :(

Superb point Skerj. Nintendo should find a balance in their QC instead of being so open like now or so restrict like SNES days. They don't need to be as harsh as 80s and 90s but allowing every kind of crap on Wii isn't the solution either.
Still, I don't think they'll change current policy because their system is selling like hot cakes and Nintendo's own games are owning the charts.

[RealityCheck]

It's really not surprising. Many people are just not seeing the real cause and effect relation.

The systems that sell the most attract game developers that want to make a quick buck with the least efforts. Those games are always rushed and poorly made. Hence lowering the score average for the system.

A better measure would be to weight the score average in proportion to how many units each game sold. That way, these poorly made titles would not bring the console scoring average as much.

[MK_Red]

RealityCheck, sure, the systems that sell more attract more devs and more crappy games but here, the best selling console PS2 has a much higher average than Wii even though the console has had a huge number of crappy titles while Wii has just entered it's second year.

It is common for best selling consoles to get a lot of crappy games but Wii has gone beyond that and as Relcom said, there is 1 good game for every 10 crappy ones. At least on PS2, it was like 4 or 5 good ones for every crappy game.

[JsonHenry]

Does this take into account the total number of titles as a percentage, it just the total number period?

It would be easy for the PS3 to out do the other two consoles since there are less games available for the PS3 if they only did it by total.

But if they did it by percentage then it would probably make a big difference.

[spandexxking]

prime example of quality over quantity if you ask me

[RealityCheck]

I agree MK_Red that the Wii has a higher number of poorly made games in relation to good ones.

I still contend however that the cause is because that system is so hyped and sold so much so quickly that it attracted even more greedy developers or maybe I should say publishers. It's really a typical bandwagon scenario.

It's like when online trading started, .com companies started, online auctions started, or like when fiber optics and wireless became popular. In each case, investors and VCs were coming out of nowhere and throwing money to anyone that could bring a semblance of a product quickly to market that they could hype and sell; with no regard to quality and long-term view.

[power of Green]

Comparing the Wii and PS3 is fine but the 360 has too many games and way better 3rd party support to be compared with the PS3 and Wii.

Meaning having good 3rd party support will produce more lemons. Same thing if there was a study or report on how many good games *only* charts were posted people would say the 360 has been out longer hence the "more games" issue we end up with again.

Not sure what 1.7 is trying to say. both PS3 and 360 have crap games.

[antoinetm]

Weak developpers seems to avoid the PS3 because its different from the 360/PC platform.

That doesnt mean that the 360 has less good game, but only that it has more crappy games.

They should have broken it by quantiles.

[SSCOOLCHEA]

i didnt read article but i just want to put my 2 cents in it , people have been coming on this board saying that nintendo wii is targeted for kids , young mens , so do you think that a 10 year old cares what the score is or do you think devs care if they can score on some gimmick and sell a million to to a kids all over the world .....A mother will look and say thats a cute game i can get for my son or daughter , regardless of what the review was...Im pretty sure everybody in here knows a little or 2 about the gaming industry but theres also millions that dont...that why crappy games get sequel....

[Joey Gladstone]

for most of 07' there has been much speculation as to the PS3's ability to really deliver, but it appears as though 08' is off to a great start with no real foreseeable slowdown ahead as it has yet to drop its Big Name Titles (MGS4, KZ, etc).....

Great Point MK_Red the Wii still reamins a mystery to me as to how they can allow companies to release such sub par quality games for their console.....
......
........
......"The JOEY has Spoken"

[mighty_douche]

I think the article speaks for itself... not need for fanboy bragging!

[XBOX 360]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOlercoaster

[leon76]

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[BubblesDAVERAGE]

Bubbles DAVERAge says that the Sonys Playstions is the best system ever with more and better games each gen it stands on top of the industry and others admire. After the myriad attacks of a media onslaught it still came out on top with the best next gen sales..(wii does not count)

[Caph]

I´m pleasantly surprised about these results, didn´t think ps3 would be first. Though i wanted i to, couse it deserves it:P

[Bathyj]

Nintendo just doesn't make consoles for gamers anymore. It makes interactive gimmicks for grandparents and non gamers. Thats why they're popular. There are more non gamers in the world than there are gamers. It doesn't mean its good.

PS
Well done PS3. (no good games huh?)

[she00win99]

the only reason the ps3 has a higher average is because it has fewer games(fewer bad games for now) compared to xbot360 and wii...

[MK_Red]

she00win99, Your logic is seriously flawed. If the number of games is a factor, PS2's review average should have been much lower than Wii while it's actually Wii that has an average lower than half of PS2's.

[Bathyj]

Then whats the Wii'a excuse?

[ban fans]

and I would also like to add that because PS3 has less games than its competition, any low review score would / will affect its average in a much greater way.

[ericnellie]

I normally agree with most of the things you say but, when someone comes up with the average -- it's of a total sum! All game review are included. Since the 360 has more software available, a high 10 or 9 review has less of an effect of it's total average. However, with the PS3 and fewer software titles good and bad scores have the potential to drastically affected it's average. It's a fine balance but it is total reviews. In my opinion, they all have really good and really bad games =) I don't think the AVERAGE consumer will use this to base the console purchase on as much as brand loyalty.

[MK_Red]

ericnellie, the sales and average consumer relation thing that I said in other comment was more of a joke.

My main point here is why Wii's terribly low average is not because of it's larger game library compared to PS3. PS2 has much more games and still has a much better average.
So saying that "Wii is successfull and more devs make games for it" is the reason for such low average is wrong and this is my point. The average consumer definitly doesn't care about this and seriously, all 3 systems have more than few good games but my problem with Wii is that the ratio of horrible to good games is beyond worrying.

[ericnellie]

Oh ok, I gotcha!!
Thanks for further explaining -- that's why you always get bubbles from me =)

[MK_Red]

Thanks :)
And bubbles for you.

[XBOX 360]

Off topic:

[8:00:51 AM] Stephan says: soooo
[8:01:22 AM] Stephan says: My room mate goes and buys devil may cry 4 for the xbox 360
[8:01:33 AM] Stephan says: comes home chucks it in plays a little
[8:01:44 AM] Stephan says: then it got the ring of death.

SO BABOONS, WOULD YOU RATHER WAIT 22 MINUTES FOR AN INSTALL OR 6 WEEKS FOR ME TO COME BACK? AHAHAHAHAHHA

[Fat Bastard]

Dude, I love it. All this 360 hatin' is gettin me all fired up. Go PS3!!! Just so I can remind myself of all of the amazing games, there's Killzone 2, Resistance 2, Little Big Planet, Metal Gear Solid 4, Gran Tourismo 5 and Prologue, Final Fantasy XIII and versus, God of War 3, Ico 3, Uncharted, Heavenly Sword, Ratchet and Clank, Unreal Tournament 3, Resistance, and Warhawk. I think that list may just be a little better than Mass Effect, Halo 3, Gears of War, Crackdown, and Bioshock. The only good 360 games, and if you install Linux on your PS3 and buy the PC versions, you get them too. So what is the 360 good for again? Oh yea, nothing

[Mr PS3]

I never expected any thing less
Because everything about the PS3 is superior to the Junkbox and that overated kiddie toy the wii

[rawd]

Quality not quantity

PLAY B3YOND

[leon76]

Exactly man you are tottaly right, but no bother, because very soon quantity will be equal to quality, and nothing will be the same, it will be GREAT!!!!!

[0LDSCH00L]

How many people buy the PS3 as a cheap Blu-Ray player? Id say pretty close to half the PS3's install base.

[mighty_douche]

and you get those figures from??? your ass??

[funkysolo]

that want the best picture quality....Just like HDTV's the first people that bought HDTV didn't pay $500 they paid $5000 - $10000 so why would this tech savy care about spending $1000 on a standalone blu ray player. People that bougth the PS3 bought to play games first and watch movies second...People that bought blu ray players bought the stand alone because they watch movies. The average consumers doesnt' buy the latest tech, never other wise HDTV's would be in every home today, especially after being out for 15 years. So I guess half of 360 owners bought a 360 for a dvd player

[0LDSCH00L]

Yea, cause.. the PS3 has the biggest and the best game library with the best backwards compatibility and, PSN is vastly superior to XBL.

[XBOX 360]

FACT! MY BC SUCKS BECAUSE YOU NEED AN HDD, ON TOP OF THAT MY BC RATE IS ABOUT 3%, I USE P2P SERVICE FOR XBL AND MAKE MY MORON OWNERS PAY $50/YEAR, AND I LOVE HAVING PC PORTS AS MY "BEST GAME LIBRARY"

JUMP INTO MEDIOCRITY!

[Scottama]

I share your enthusiasm, but you're wrong about the biggest game catalogue. Unless... you're counting the PS2 and PSone Game catalogue in that game library, which, thinking about it, might be legitimate.

Anyway, Playstation Brand FTW!

Edit: Sorry, I didn't actually realise you were being sarcastic until I read your next few posts. Well, I suppose that's because I agree with what you were saying.
But that calls into question the Agrees/Disagress at the bottom :/

[timmyp53]

but combined with the first party titles and some good ports it adds up i suppose.

[dzg4ever]

na-na-na-na na-na-na-na he-e-ey good-by

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

?

[ThaGeNeCySt]

pretty much... and the 360 has about 300 games and the PS2 has 292308942 and thus the average 360 scores are higher than PS2's yet I feel the PS2's library is much much better than the 360's so this news article really means nothing.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

I don't know exacly how many PS3 games there are but I know it isnt even close, so the 50 is just an assumption. If a PS3 owner would like to correct it, please do.

The guy who wrote this din't do enough homework. it's not "to" slanted, it's just incomplete. It's like baking a cake and forgeting the eggs and sugar.

[LastDance]

Yeah but did he count every single game ever review on all the systems or did he do the best 30 game review for xbox and ps3?

But like it was stated above any bad review would have a heavier impact on the overall rating with less games so your agument is moot.

[0LDSCH00L]

ROTFL! Grow up little boy.

[wiizy]

the wii will have the best games in 08 and the most too.. and obviously wii had some shovelware but also alot of reviewers just dont understand how to review innovation..they have been caught up in the graphics and shooters hype

[Kleptic]

haha...best games of 2008 will be on the Wii?...

throw a brick straight up in the air...and be sure and not move in any direction for at least 10 seconds...that should take care of your 'issues'...

[0LDSCH00L]

N4G= swarms of rabid & irrational Sony fanboys.

[Kaz Hirai]

It seems we have made one of the Xbot PIGS cry! Go on PIG, continue crying! Your tears sustain me!

MWAH-HA-HA-HA!!!

[Kleptic]

this is getting totally retarded...

its all the same feg too...they all call 360 owners BABOONS?...no one says that...its all Bill Gates I think...the open zone was fun to argue with people for a while, but now its just fake name'd people just walling up comments that no one reads...its sucking, pretty hard...

[The_Engineer]

kleptic, these guys are HILARIOUS, they make me want to come to N4G and read the comment section.

[0LDSCH00L]

The PS3 has the worst games attach rate of the 3 current next gen systems, that kinda speaks for itself.

[mighty_douche]

so? that means 360 owners are buying more low rated games?

Also the console has been out twice as long, isnt it logical that they have more games? time out vs attach rate, once again PS3 wins.

[titntin]

Sorry troll, but you are wrong - and I never let this one go, as its so obviously and demonstrably a complete lie..
Do the weekly figures. Each and every week, PS3 users buy more games per units than any other machine. Thats been the case for the last 11 weeks and its indisputable, using any figures you can find in all territories.
You can only confuse the issue if you try and talk about 'life time attach rates' (a machine available for twice as long ought to have a higher lifetime attach rate). but if you simply look at weekly sales figures and figure out what percentage of a machines users buys a game each week, the PS3 has had the higher attach rate for a long time now. Its particularly obvious at the moment, with worldwide software sales pretty much matching the 360 despite the 360 having a much bigger install base.

[mighty_douche]

it would appear from our disagrees that evidence and fact has no place here...

[Whoooop]

PS3 has less games, the 360 has a whole lot more...

Yeah but when a multiplatform game sells more on the 360: The PS3 sucks.. PS3 owners are not buying games..

A lot of people are angry, disappointed or simply shocked cause the PS3 had a 2007 that nobody thought they could. On top of that they know 2008 will be a torture for the 360 and its fanboys supporters.

:)

[ThaGeNeCySt]

"PS3 has less games, the 360 has a whole lot more...

Yeah but when a multiplatform game sells more on the 360: The PS3 sucks.. PS3 owners are not buying games."

This is about average review scores across the board, not game sales.

[Whoooop]

"This is about average review scores across the board, not game sales."

No sh*t Sherlock..

Try and dig deeper into my comment and you might find the treasure buddy.

[ThaGeNeCySt]

How about... YOU stay on topic about the news being discussed? If not, u can easily hit the "OPEN ZONE" tab up top and place your off topic comments in there.

[kewlkat007]

Averages that brings down it's score..relevent?

I won't make too much of this..we could as well as the average score of 360's top 10 games and they would stomp the PS3. It is what it is.

360 Game library has more games with not so perfect scores which ruins your average regardless.

As more mediocre/sh^tty games come out this average will fall as well..simple math

Let's see how delusional fanboys get..

[LastDance]

Ps3 has its fair share of crap and with less games it would dramatically drop the average so your wrong.

[v1c1ous]

go back to basic math please

[titntin]

Your reply is nonsensical and clearly demonstrates that you didn't even bother to read the article before you replied. He clearly goes on to compare the top 10% of each platforms titles too.. which you'd know if you bothered reading the story.

As far as I can see there are two main points I will personally take from this article:

1) In general reviewers agree with my own experience, that the bulk of titles released on the Wii have been utter drivel. I've never known a machine that so consistently failed to deliver anything exciting, and it gives me no pleasure to say that. There's a few shining lights that show it can be done (step forward Mario), but in general the quality of software on wii has been trash.

2) The assumption that 360 software is of much better quality than Ps3 software is plain wrong, as the averaged critical scores plainly show.
That the 360 has played host to some exceptionally well received classics is indisputable and I've loved every bit of them, but on average, the quality of Ps3 software matches that of the 360 in terms of critical reception. This is also broadly inline with my own experiences with the consoles, where I've had a good time with titles on both machines.

Incidently, one of the usual 360 trolls (Jason360?) posted earlier that were only 50 titles available on PS3, which is obviously another complete lie - there were more than 150 some time ago so we must be seeing about 170 on that platform now. Remember that the overwhelming majority of releases on the 360 are also available on the PS3, and the majority of them are almost identical with the obvious and much publisiesed exceptions of the 'shoody ports and conversions' with problems (Orange box, Madden, etc .) There's obviously not enough really shoddy ports to influence the figures as the average rating for the PS3's titles remains high..

[ChickeyCantor]

All of the above,
you guys are all out of your freaking minds! especially KAZ XD

[DarkSniper]

This is pleasant news indeed. But it does not surprise Dark Sniper. Xbox 360 is known for it's garbage hardware and garbage software comes along with it. PLAYSTATION® 3 continues to bring nothing but the best AAA exclusive to it's platform while XBOX 360 is under the impression that gamers would take to such garbage titles as Vampire Rain, Hour of Victory, The Outfit and Lost Odyssey.

With a plethora of AAA exclusives and an ever increasing attach rate, XBOX slaves are personally offended by the PLAYSTATION® 3's success and have ran out of ammunition to use against the superior machine.

$niper

[The XBOT]

360
games between 70% and 80 are 196 (2.5 times more that the PS3)
Total games betweeb 80% and 90% are 74 (Double the PS3s)
Total games above 90% are 11 (3.6 times more that the PS3)

PS3
games above 90 are 3
game between 80 and 90 are 37
games betweeb 70% and 80 are 78

Capiche?

[Fat Bastard]

OK XBOT, you like to make numbers up so I will too.

Uh, 1 in every 2 360's break, and uh, there's less then 50 games on it, and uh... they all get lower than 50% scores, and uh, uh, oh yea, the 360 sucks cause it does. Ya.

I honestly do think you just made those numbers up off the top of your head. Keep them there

[The XBOT]

1)These numbers are straight from gamerankings you retarted POS.
2)This topic is about game averaging and not console breakdowns.
3) Did I say that you are retarted and fat?

[HarryEtTubMan]

hahahahaha look at the A$$ sore loser XBOT crying!! Too bad PS3 has ALLLLLL the biggest AAA games THIS YEAR. YOU WANNA BET? I BET YOU THE PS3 GET ALOT OF AAA THIS YEAR AND THE NEXT AND THE NEXT! You know what else I bet? I bet the Xbox 360 FLOPS and only sales 35-40 million in lifetime sales and the PS3 MORE THAN DOUBLES that by the end of its life. I also KNOW psn IS GOING TO HAVE everything Xbox live does and Playstation Home this year. EVERYTHING. And a 3D virtual world. In game everything. Downloadable music, movies. For FREE. I bet Resistance 2 runs 60 players and 8 player co-op on DEDICATED SERVERS FOR FREE WITH NO LAG THIS YEAR. But u wouldnt know about that Xbot. HAHAHAHAH Go play your defective LAST GEN DVD9 console FOOL. PS3 is going to destroy the Xbox and everyone konws it. This is only the beginning and the 360 is ALREADY LOSIONG. Go Halo 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's too bad the Playstation 3 is gonna be the one FINISHING THE FIGHT!!! HAHAHAHAHHA PWNED BOT. Your console is absolute garbage.

[BloodySinner]

Why was the title changed?

[InMyOpinion]

How many games per console were included? What games? Multi or only exclusive titles? He left out some info that would be very interesting to read.

[PeterGriffinSays]

...this is the year of the PS3 baby!

[hades07]

Shouldn't the title say something about the Wii review scores being so low, since that is what the article is about, not how their is little to no shovelware on the PS3 so far.

[ChickeyCantor]

Gamers are truly sad, they only believe that AAA games are worth buying.

a score of 7 isn't bad, a score of 5 is bad(well not really it depends on what you like).
because people believe in the hype of AAA games many other games are overlooked, its SAD!

So what if PS3 got better scores in total?
no reason to start a riot. Be more open to other games!

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

If it drops below a 7 then it's a no, but 7 or up is easly worth a look. I have many games on my PC, Xbox, GameCube, PS2, DS and, 360 games that are rated in the 7s and 8s and many of those are underrated. lots of PS3 fans will even say R&C and Uncharted are underrated sinse they all scored in the high 8s but they are still good games (brother has a PS3, so I played both) 360 seen alot of high 9s and 10s in the past couple of years but it's also seen some stinkers.

[GlossGreen]

they are just the best ones to get. If a game is seriously flawed then the developer and publisher deserve to receive no money for it. If a game is released in that condition shame on them, and shame on you for buying it. That's the problem with the Wii. People are buying all the crap games for it. Sure, this inflates the numbers for Nintendo, but it ultimately only hurts the consumers. I don't have all AAA games for my system of choice, but I don't have the likes of Ninjabread Man either.

[ban fans]

So many people complained about the bias of 1up and gametrailers, then a article like this comes out and everyone takes it as fact.

Fact is, I've own plenty of games that scored 4 to 7 and have been perfectly happy with them. I was a huge fan of the plodding quests of King's Field, and I think that game scored a 4 or lower on most reviews, if they even bothered to review it! Same goes for Deception, bad to mediocre reviews at best! Ratings are helpful, but they are not fact, they are opinion.

[LastDance]

I agree jason. I think you should never ever ever read a review and judge the game there and then.

There are so many good games out there that get C average scores but i enjoy them thoroughly.

you can read reviews and stuff but its a matter of taste, sometimes technical issues but still you might tollerate them more then the reviewer.

Thats the beauty of games.

[Keowrath]

Sidar, I wouldn't say it's Gamers that say they will only play AAA games. I consider myself a Gamer and I'm not bothered about review scores as long as I enjoy the game myself.

It's the Fanboys that scream and shout over AAA's, like the fanboys who wont play a game if it becomes multiplatform, like the fanboys who won't play a game if it's not 1080p and 60fps. Those who won't play a title because it's on the competitors machine. I agree that Fanboys are sad but if they're cutting their own noses off to spite their face so be it, I care not.

Gamers play games, sure we prefer to play great games but if I enjoy a title and Fred Blogs on the internet says is crap, then I really don't care what the game scored.

[ChickeyCantor]

@Keowrath

i'm a gamer too, but i was talking about the majority.

just look it up, most gamers whine when a game isn't near a perfect 8, 9 or 10.
While a 6 is actually considered decent.

with a 6(out of 10) you can even get your diploma! go figure XD

[The_Engineer]

now I have seen it all, Jason and the usual suspects are now saying games that score 8's and 7's are good?? but but but a few months ago they used these scores to call Ps3 games garbage. There was no ifs ands or butts about it, they made no exceptions. If it didn't score 99.99999% in review scores then it was
"another Ps3 games gets low score bwahahahahahahahahha".

two faced people are pathetic

[InMyOpinion]

I get it now. A quick look at gamerankings.com reveals that the 360 has 583 titles, compared to 275 on the PS3, and 341 on the Wii. I'm surprised, The Wii actually has lots more games than the PS3.

Why not compare the 275 best scoring titles on each console? =)

[spandexxking]

why the suprise? its the best console of this gen so obviously devs are gonna want to rake money on it. thats why there are loads of games but this article prove that not all of them are worth it!

[AceLuby]

Or a better comparison the FIRST 275 titles on each console...

[titntin]

Do you people not even understand the concept of what an average is???

As long as there is a reasonabley large number of titles to sample, and in this case there is, then an average is perfectly acceptable way to compare scores, even if there was a million titles on one platform. :)

Thats why people use averages..its what they are for! Talking about how many titles the machines have is irelevant!!! WAKE UP!!!

[ThaGeNeCySt]

man LOL @ the Wii... I wish developers would take that console serious... games like No More Heroes/Twilight Princess/RE4 (even though it's a port)/Fatal Frame shows that the Wii can be a hardcore gamers console of choice

[dzg4ever]

... c ya in some other ¨nex-gen war¨ for 5-6 years. This one is over! lol

[Mars Attacker]

Lets see a roundup of scores from Metacritic (the only site that matters for statistics like this). The running total for AAA games:

360: 11
PS3: 3
Wii: Who cares

To me the console with the best library is the one with the highest attach rate.

[games4fun]

youre an idiot then, people who go with what is popular at the time are blind lemmings who cant decide what to get, i'm glad you used attach rate did you know the game with the highest attach rate is wii play so you must own a wii right?

[Eamon]

This is simple to understand.

PS3 did not win. It simply has a much less amount of games than to 360.

We all know Wii has a bad bunch of games.

And since loads of PS3 games were ports of good 360 games then this article really doesn't prove a thing.

(Don't spam me. It's just my opinion as a 360, Wii and PS3 owner).

[Legion]

You are correct in the fact that more higher rated games will be ported to the PS3 from the XBox 360 and the lesser rated games will not be ported due to their lack luster showing on other consoles. this would effect the stats. Just like about a million other things.

And with the XBox 360 being the lead system for developers then you will obviously see fewer of those sub par games being ported to the PS3. But the reduced ratings on some port games does effect the PS3 too. But just not as much as the complete loss of sub par ports.

But let them have their colored graph to keep them busy. I'm preferring my AAA titles on the XBox 360.

[Jdoki]

If people are trying to put numbers against the fun they are having then perhaps the more interesting/valid comparison would be to do it over the same timeframe - for example Year 1 of each console's life span.

It's indesputable that the 360 has more AAA titles, that's natural considering it's been out longer. So there's really no way of getting a really accurate comparison. You could compare the same time frame, or compare the same number of titles (i.e. the top 50 on each), or maybe just compare the exclusives. But what does any of this tell us? Not a lot.

For every AAA title on the PS3 there will be someone who loves Barbies Horse Adventure on Wii. For every Mass Effect there will someone who loves Folklore more. There's no accounting for taste, and game scores say as much about a specific time in industry than about the game (for example is Mario Galaxy really better than Super Mario 64? Personally I say no, but most meta-score sites show Galaxy as ahead)

I agree with the order of scores - PS3 on top, 360 second and Wii third purely because that how much I've enjoyed each console since I purchased them. That doesn't really have anything to do with average scores, just fun factor.

[Legion]

And yet the PS3 still has a lack of AAA titles. Hmmm... seems to me they are just AVERAGE across the board. At least the XBox 360 has the most AAA titles of this generation and you can choose not to buy the sub par games that eventually come to all systems.

PS2 had a LOT of AAA titles in their library, but they also had a LOT of sub par games that brought that average down. Inevitable... the best thing that is helping out the PS3 is that they are so hard to develop for that the trash companies aren't trying to throw games at them yet.

I am curious to see if this includes all the trash Japanese games from the PS2 era? It seems like a lot of the Japanese games that didn't come to America/Europe might not have been included on this list. So a lot of data left out I am sure.

[AceLuby]

How many of those AAA PS2 titles came out in the first year? For that matter how many of the 360's AAA titles came out in the first year?

[Jdoki]

There's no excusing the lack of good games on the Wii. I've always been a huge supporter of Nintendo, but the success of the Wii is starting to look a little hollow for owners.

Nintendo are turning in to the 'Apple' of the video games industry. People want a Wii because it is seen as a cool, must have, desirable item in the same way the masses view the iPod.

I've owned/rented quite a few Wii games and the majority have been rubbish. Even Mario Galaxy disappointed. Other than Smash Bros (a game that barely utilises the Wiimote) there's very little that interests me on the Wii in 2008 - I may rent a few more games, but full purchases are out of the question.

Considering the Wii is a glorified Gamecube why are there not more 1st party titles out? They already had the dev tools available in-houseand switching up from GC to Wii would have been simple. Pikmin 3? Mario Kart? Luigi's Mansion 2 (surely a natural Wiimote game) They seem rather far off or MIA.

The problem here is 3rd party publishers are doing the math...

Massive hardware sales + a naive new casual gamer market segment = Max profit shovelware.

It's nice to see the PS3 doing well. The average may be a little inflated due to the awe some reviewers seemed to have for the machine - stuff like Folklore and Motorstorm were solid but probably didn't deserve the scores they got.

Perhaps the complexity of the PS3 has worked in it's favour here though. Added development complexity equals higher costs, and lower install base equals less sales... So a dev really needs to be sure the risk is worth it and they have a quality concept and a lot of talent.

The 360 is about where I would expect it - a lot of really excellent games is somewhat offset by a lot of rubbish dragging the average down.

[Intrepid]

It's not really the lack of good Wii games that's the problem for Nintendo. I can easily list 10 awesome games for the Wii. The problem is the abundance of crappy games. That's what lowers the average. Ignore the crappy games and the Wii has a decent lineup.

[Eretik]

Q: Who cares about average temperature across the hospital?
A: Only stupid analysts of stupid mass media and their nerdish friends.

[DFresh]

Innovation and originality are always the key to Sony's success and it's starting to really show can't wait to see what happens in 2008 and b3yond.
play b3yond!
PS3 4 life!
I almost think when this console war started Sony had to fight 3 fronts starting off.
2006: Getting Blu-ray to be the main format.(Obviously we knew they were going to win from the very beginning.)
2007: 1st half went to getting PSP noticed more as a portable.
2nd half of 2007 and b3yond all PS3 from here on out. (PS3 outsold 360 2:1 worldwide)
2008: History in the making and victors of this console war and b3yond.
etc.
Whenever people say Sony has no games I think that's BS because in 2006 they had Resistance Fall of Man, Genji, Motorstorm, Call to Duty 3, PSN Games like Flow, etc.
2007 Sony made R&C Future, Drake's Uncharted, Call to Duty 4, etc.
2008: Killzone 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, Eight Days, FFXIII, Resistance 2, Eight Days, etc.
2009: God of War 3, L.A Noire, Crysis, Project Offset, etc.
There are just as many multi platforms as the 360 and Wii the only difference not enough exclusives but that's all fixed now.
So when people argue that the PS3 has no games from release date on is just plain dumb and hasn't done their research.

[Eretik]

Wii is first in low-quality game and most popular
PS2 is second in low-quality game and popularity(it is assumption)
XBOX360 is third in low-quality game and popularity.
XBOX is fourth in low-quality game and popularity.
GameCube is fifth in low-quality game and popularity.
PS3 is best by game rating and worst in popularity.

Good luck, PS3, in this difficult task to get more low quality titles to become really popular. (Joke)

[AceLuby]

Where'd you pull this out of? Results by 'popularity'... nice argument, maybe better suited for the open zone.

[pp]

DFresh thats some line up of games you just mentioned. i wonder if all off those games combined will reach a million

[Anego Montoya FTMFW]

your about 6 months late w/ that comment.

will LO2 be on 6 disks? that`s a more relevant question.....today.

[u got owned]

@ 12.1

"your about 6 months late w/ that comment. "

the sad thing is that late or not is the truth...

[Anego Montoya FTMFW]

"all those game combined will sell a million"

RFOM sold 2 million
Mstorm sold 2 million
Uncharted sold a million (i`m fairly sure)

all of those games will sell a million.

RFOM2 and GOW3 alone will sell like crazy. multi-millions.

don`t be ignorant, or atleast try not to be.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

360 has 35 games that sold over a million and 60 with 500,000+

PS3 has 7 with a million or more and 15 with 500,000+

Dont even try that "360 has been out longer" whine cry crap. because 7 + 7 = 14 and 15 + 15 = 30, that would be two years side by side with the 360. At this pace it will take the PS3 4 years to match only two years for the 360. OUCH! thats some painfull truth there.

[Milky]

PP:
hahaha your funny because your 'jokes' are original and witty.

[Scottama]

@12.3

You're perfectly right in your figures

@12.4

NO! That is assuming that successful games come along at perfectly regular intervals, something I would suggest is fundamentally flawed. The 360 has had more time WITH A BIGGER INSTALL BASE, and so of course - the PS3 having sold 9.78 million units in half the time the 360's been out and sold 16.96 million - has not sold half the number of multi-million games as the 360. If 1 in 10 PS3 owners bought a game, that would be about 978,000, whereas for the 360 it's 1.6 million. The 360 has been out longer, and so this is only natural...

[Superiorrior]

@Jason 360 -

Sure it is great that your Xbox360 can sell more titles, but this isn't about how many titles it sells, its about the average games and it reviews and the people have spoken, on average PS3 gets better games while great games come around every once and a while on the Xbox 360, we're not calling your games junk at least not myself, you guys have alot more junk than great games but this goes for every system, it just happens you guys have ALOT of junk.

[bootsielon]

That's because it has less games. Naturally publishers are reluctant to release sh1tty games on PS3 since it would be hard to sell them, especially because PS3 owners are picky (just look at the attach rates). Though I love my PS3, the Top 10% on each console is probably highest on 360, and I don't know who's next, since Wii has Nintendo games which fared great, like Mario, Zelda and Metroid, but that's pretty much it. PS3 might have the lowest Top 10% average score.

[sak500]

Comeon, we know that since the games library is huge on both wii and 360 the score will much more tougher to get on higher side. You can't expect every game to avg 80+. In case of ps3, few games have come out which are exclusive and most of them have been rated highly. We all konw multiplatform is another story and 360 has had higher avg although by not big margin. So with higher number of turds for 360, it gets lowers the score of avg game if you take only exclusives since it had more exclusives becuz of 1 year advanced launch. Also there is no data from this guy which games he took into account.

On the other hand wii is another story only handful of games have received good score rest are all time pass.

[pwnsause]

its not about how many games you have in the library of a console, its the potential of the game, you know how good it is.

[u got owned]

This article is stupid fanboy bait. Game cube is next to PS3 and how many of you owned a Game Cube. This article is just plain stupid.

[KozmoOchez]

That Xbox 360 is rather low there...next to ps2. It's second from last

[LevDog]

Well Doesnt surprise me.. Wii is over rated as a system.. There never really that many games for Nintendo ever.. They only reason I usually buy one is for Smash bros and Mar Kar.. xbox doesnt surprise me ask thier xbox fans they get it for one game halo and usually all the rest are crap.. Gears Mass give it some depth.. Sony has always had great titles in all catagories.. They have alot more range.. They just started out slow like always.. but if you look at thier games they are all good.. Heavenly Sword Awesome just too short.. Even Lair was tite and which the recent post about a possible patch to give it analog controls there should be a revised review.. R&C Resistance Uncharted WarHawk those are just a few and High Quality..

[PSWe60]

There's a shocker, Wii=Bad games

Is this really news?

[Marojado]

PS3 has Uncharted and Resistance, 360 has Gears and Halo, Wii has Mario Galaxy and Zelda etc... Regardless of how many crap games there out on consoles, all of them still have streams of quality, so it doesn't matter what the statistics are as long as quality titles like these are being released.

[Ital50Stal]

anyone notice how N4G has slightly (alot) more ps3 fanboys then 360 ones? anytime a stupid article comes out like this one, ps3 owners (like myself) flame any 360 positive comments? lol kinda funny how its not an even playing field n no real debates form cuz no 360 users respond. oh well

play b3yond..use a dildo

[Intrepid]

I think it's because Sony Fanboys (like yourself) have driven supporters of the other two systems away from this site with your nonsense. The PS3 is an awesome system, but you people do nothing but talk crap about the the other systems. Just play your Playstation and be happy. It doesn't matter who's in first.

[KozmoOchez]

the reason why you mostly see ps3 fanboys here is because you probably only look at the ps3 topics and the ones at the top of the home page, which happen to be mostly ps3 related topics lately. Also, if you read the open zone comments, there are a lot of 360 fanboys there too, most of the ones i read have more for 360 than ps3.

but, as long as you can take criticism and know when to say someone else does it better, it's ok to be a semi-fanboy, maybe

@marojado:
You seem to only name 2 "quality" games for each system making them all look equally , which imo, is WRONG!

Now this is only my opinion:
360 has only 2, Gears of War and Halo 3(imo is questionable)
Wii has about 4: Mario Galaxy, Zelda, Smash Bro's, and Mario Kart
PS3 has about...idk they have so many new games that ended up being good, more than 2, a lot actually, I don't really play them all, but to say they all have an equal amount of quality games is unfair to the other systems that do 1st party games well.

[AceLuby]

Seriously, who cares. This doesn't make any side look better than the other, and it makes most of you look like rabid fanboys when trying to defend either system. This isn't going to sway anyone and is only posted for flame bait. We should rehash this some more... while we're at it why don't we try to dig up another HD-DVD is dying thread because there definitely isn't enough of either on here...

[Azailex Sorrow]

All of your 360's will red ring,

Your halo's, and gears of wars will be put to a hold..

Your "faithful" *cough* (not) M$ will cry behind the thousands od broken systems...

All because of Metalgearsolid4, And final fantasy...

FF alone could damage the 360...

[The XBOT]

360
games between 70% and 80 are 196 (2.5 times more that the PS3)
Total games betweeb 80% and 90% are 74 (Double the PS3s)
Total games above 90% are 11 (3.6 times more that the PS3)

PS3
games above 90 are 3
game between 80 and 90 are 37
games betweeb 70% and 80 are 78

Understood?

[BLUR111]

LOCUST FORRRREVVAAAAA!!

[lildave0500]

heck ya all the xbox360 has is halo and gears of war we got 5game that will own microsoft alone

[LevDog]

The Wii is like a Tickle me Elmo.. Cool for about a year.. Then ITs like POGS.. GOne and forgotten

[Intrepid]

That's a terrible analogy considering that the Wii has been out for over a year and is still selling better than the 360 and PS3.

C'mon people, please get serious.

[Genuine]

The 360 has over 200 more titles than ps3. If they had taken the top 100 titles from each system, 360 would have easily been ontop.

http://www.metacritic.com/g...

http://www.metacritic.com/g...

[omodis420]

I swear that most of you did not read the article. You all started debating it without reading it. Thats Funny.

[Lord_Mike]

This is something most of us already knew but it's nice to have a graph.

[Rice]

Sweet.............

[BLACKJACK VII]

LOL, Stats & graphs can be spun so many directions....

What a worthless article. AAA's & games above 60% (the Wii watermark) are all that matter. PS2 & 360's stats are skewed b/c of all the games. Like Mars Attacker said, metacritic IS what matters for this kind of nonsense.

Sony should increase it's AAA status this year with MGS & maybe FF...

Who said quality over quantity ? 360 has both:

Metacritic's AAA's

Xbox 360:
1 BioShock* 96
2 Orange Box, The 96
3 Gears of War* 94
4 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The 94
5 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 94
6 Halo 3* 94
7 Rock Band 93
8 Guitar Hero II 92
9 Mass Effect* 91
10 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 90
11 Forza Motorsport 2* 90

http://www.metacritic.com/g...

PS3:
1 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 94
2 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The 93
3 Rock Band 92

http://www.metacritic.com/g...

360: 11 AAA's in 2 years

PS3: 3 AAA's in 1 year

What's interesting is that so far, not even 1 Sony Exclusive has hit AAA status. The 3 AAA's they currently have there are all multiplats....

[Rocko]

posting facts angers the fangirls.

[Rice]

You may have alot of AAA titles but u also have alot of crappy games.

[ngg12345]

http://www.gamerankings.com...
Forza 2 got the same score as uncharted. I love how people decide to choose games that got AAA.

GH2? Graw? Those games are overrated. Wouldn't score close to 90 because it is proven with GH3, and GRAW 2. BEing superior still didn't give them a 90% score/

[Archaeox]

6 Halo 3* 94
9 Mass Effect* 91
11 Forza Motorsport 2* 90
Now lets add a few PS3 exclusives shall we?
Resistance
Ratchet
Uncharted
Now lets check something
In Xbox 360's first year, it had 1 title score over 9.0 on IGN
In PS3's first year, it had 3 titles score over 9.0 on IGN
Also, I thought you guys were smart enough to know that most devs release games they have been developing in the second year?
And lets check Xbox's exclusives this year according to Wikipedia
29.

Fix'd

[The_Engineer]

"AAA's & games above 60% (the Wii watermark) are all that matter."

anyone that knows the posting history of the most die hard 360 fanboys on this site care to explaint the BLATANT two faced BS in this statement??

You fanboys can't have it both ways

[LJWooly]

I think it's time that everyone realised that the score that a game gets doesn't necessarily define whether it's 'AAA'.

Because a bunch of 'experts' (whose opinion is often wavered) rate a game over 90, means it's 'AAA'? Wtf?

When you let reviews choose what you play for you, you need to realise that you actually have the ability to think for yourself, you should use it.

[xionpunk]

Well considering what was available for Gamecube, the percentages for wii titles are not shocking.

[FirstknighT]

The 360 has 13 games rated 90 and up. 70 games rated 80 and up.
The ps3 has 4 games rated 90 and up. 28 games rated 80 and up.

Which one has better quality?

[LJWooly]

Well, as if we didn't see this one coming...

[Striderhoang]

I'm having trouble looking at what's over the hill after Brawl lands stateside, so I don't think the numbers will be getting any better anytime soon. Not that I'm bashing it cause I own one after all, but one look at my local retailer's wall just reinforces this graph.

Personally, I think the 360 is somewhat more deserving of being considered a winner because I think its head start makes it solid. Not better or weaker, but like a rock.

As for the PS3? Sure the graph depicts an average number of the reviews, but even if MGS and FF are just two titles on the PS3, those franchises have fan bases that are crazy devoted. They'll be hard to ignore even if they're just TWO games (in recent memory at least).

[Willio]

this article is biased. Of course Wii titles are going to be lowered because the reviewers are hardcore gamers, not casual. this article is pointless.

[DJ]

The graph is slightly over exaggerated though. I am surprised at the number of 360 fans offended by this data however, making odd excuses such as "Larger Library equals lower overall quality." Some of the PS3 fans are getting out of hand too.

I wish some people could realize that when arguing about the difference between the scores of PS3 and 360 titles, they're really only talking about a 3~4% difference in average scores written by journalists.

[JeepGamer]

I think it would be more fair to compare the PS3 and 360 to the games the 360 had during its first year and not when everyone went bandwagon to take advantage of its market share. As for the Wii, once again you have the bandwagon mentality but I think another great part of the problem there is the number of gimmicky games that seem designed just to make you use the Wii mote.

[MaximusPrime]

Sony has so many best games since PS1. Better than any other consoles.

That figure seems a little odd. It should be at the end of this year.

[Neo604]

ps3 is the best

[ilkercruiser]

Too many games = Lower review average. Dont say Ps2 is worse than ps3 according games' quality. Even cows laugh this table with their azzes.

[lildave0500]

dan right there is no way that the xbox360 and wii can stand up to the ps3

[BLUR111]

ok kid