PlayStation 3 Is Metacritic's Platform Of The Year
See Full ImageMost will agree that 2009 has been a darn good year for the PlayStation 3, and when looking at the overall average reception of its software, it becomes clear that Sony is on a tear.
For the first time ever, Metacritic issued their "Game Platform Power Rankings," a little competition that will be an annual event from here on out. The chart involved uses the site's all-encompassing tool that averages out all significant review scores, and it tells us which platform had the strongest year. Well, according to this year's findings, the PS3 tops the list, with an average score of 72% for all games and only 7% of the games falling in the "bad" category. Five of the ten highest-scored titles of the year were on the PS3 and the best reviewed game, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, is exclusive to Sony's machine. The PS3 also had ten titles listed as "Great," the only platform to break the double-digit barrier (the Xbox 360 and PC and 7 apiece), and the Wii - despite releasing seven gajillion games - ended up with only an average software score of 67%, one "Great" game, and 13% ending up "badly." Yeah, well, I've been saying that for a long time but perhaps people will understand numbers better. It's also interesting to note that the PS3 had less games released, 228, than the Xbox 360 at 279, and yet, there were still more "Great" titles in the PS3's lineup. Ratios are important, people.
And what are we looking for next year? Well, if we had to guess, we'd say God of War III and Gran Turismo 5 both have good shots of becoming the best-reviewed games of the year, and of course, Final Fantasy XIII will have a say, too. Of those three, two are PS3 exclusives and the third, as it was initially designed for Sony's console, should be better played on the PS3. So perhaps the PS3 can go for two in a row in 2010...
12/10/2009 2:38:12 PM Ben Dutka
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556pineapple
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 2:57:18 PM
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Scarecrow
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 2:57:20 PM
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Heck, let me not mention Heavy Rain
I'll go ahead and mention
-Modnation Racing
-The Last Guardian
-White Knight Chronicles
-Resistance 3
-LittleBigPlanet
-The Secret game*****
But hey, I guess chatting on the phone(360) is actually more important than gaming
Interesting concept (which a lot of xbots seem to run their mouths 'bout even if they don't realize it). "OMG I GOT FRIENDDS THERE, IT'S SO AWESOME!"
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Reccaman18
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mexgeo86
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Gregory Freeman
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 3:46:12 PM
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Reccaman18
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Jian2069
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 5:26:04 PM
Interesting concept (which a lot of xbots seem to run their mouths 'bout even if they don't realize it). "OMG I GOT FRIENDDS THERE, IT'S SO AWESOME!""
lmao because friends on games are a bad thing.
im not one to defend xbots but uh... fail?
I would love to have the cross-game chat and stuff that they have.
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RustEDalex
Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 5:21:37 PM
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ace_boon_coon
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 2:58:41 PM
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 3:05:43 PM
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ace_boon_coon
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 3:18:15 PM
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 6:52:14 PM
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ace_boon_coon
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 7:15:25 PM
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NoSmokingBandit
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 3:02:15 PM
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Im confused by the pc chart though. 43% good, 49% mixed, and 9% bad. I guess pc gaming is awesome enough to warrant 101% game ratings, lol.
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Hezzron
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 3:03:15 PM
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HeXeN
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Qubex
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 11:08:21 PM
Q!
"i am home"
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Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 3:11:45 PM
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I C E_COLD
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 4:53:26 PM
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FatherSun
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 5:07:12 PM
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Wrong Post. But still relative.
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WorldEndsWithMe
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 6:20:19 PM
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calculator
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 6:43:42 PM
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Like, 3?
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Snaaaake
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 7:08:59 PM
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Get out Microsoft, you're ruining the market and if you're not interested in making us gamers happy you might as well leave the gaming industry.
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Highlander
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 10:11:33 PM
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I'm glad to see that Metacritic is now makeing this 'official'. For at least the last 18 months, probably longer, the PS3 has had more excellent games in it's library than either 360 or Wii - proportionally. Wii has always been quite dire actually. Also if you look at the frequency distribution of scores on each platform, the curves are interesting. PS3 tends to have more scores towards the top of the range and Wii tends the other way, 360 is the middle of the pack. So PS3 has proportionally more excellent, very good, and good games than Wii and 360. 360 does do better than the Wii, but apart from it's decent number of excellent games, there is also a lot of very average dross.
The fun thing is that Metacritic is neither right or wrong, it's just numbers. It's a metascore which is actually pretty reliable at pointing out good games versus crap ones. So, it's hard to argue with Metacritic, because there is little to no spin, it's just numbers.
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Banky A
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 10:13:34 PM
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PS3 owns the first half of 2010 as well! There may be surprises in the last half though..
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OtisFeelgood
Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 11:56:47 PM
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Quality over Quantity my friend.
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___________
Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 12:03:46 AM
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sorry, could not resist.
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BikerSaint
Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 2:57:16 AM
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PS"3" kind, that is!!!!!!
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OriginalSin
Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 5:30:19 AM
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Just good to see some people give it the respect it deserves.
The other day I was on this Facebook group called "Video Games" ( Sorry Ben I know you are not a Facebook fan and so on) But still interesting enough I checked it out to see what it's all about...
OH MY GOD.... What a bunch of losers. First of all the are 99% xbots... and it was entertaining for like 20 sec until it became frustrating... The I just became completely p*ssed off all together.
I didn't even bother commenting on one single thing because it would have been a complete waste all together.
It's just strange leaving PSX and going elsewhere to see how blinded the majority of people out there can be.
I mean I am not bashing the Xbox it just didn't have anything I couldn't live without. GEARS being the only one I really wanted but I wasn't going to buy a console for 1 game.
Okay there has been more games that that. Like Bioshock, Left 4 Dead, Dead Rising and so on but most of them became Multilpat or will with the next entry into the series... But I guess you get my point.
Anyway I just read through the comments and true as F*** there are people there saying that FFXIII is going to be better on the Xbox and I quote "....hands down..." And some even believing that is now an Xbox Exclusive and that Sony lost their rights to it and it will never be on a Playstation console again.
Then there is still this whole " the PS3 doesn't have any games...." I mean come on where have they been in a f***** box at bottom of the ocean? Oh and Halo ODST or whatever is better than Killzone..... Y&&*^&%%$$#%$%^%&*(&^%$#@
I'm not hating on M$ or trying to suck Sony's Balls.... I just find that idiocy is a plague. And it is all over the place. That's why I think the PS3 will take forever to catch up to the Xbox purely because there seem to be so many miss informed people and simply put IDIOTS out there. I know it is getting better for Sony but still looking at that group on there it is obvious that it will take a while to break through barriers of their "perfect" little worlds.
Either that or they are just completely jealous of what we actually have and denial seems to be their best defense. I don't know.
Anyway... It just nice to see that Sony is getting some respect out there. especially after "Time" already gave MW2 the GOTY award... Do you guys think if we set some sheep on fire and send them over a cliff they will follow? Sure F***** hope so.
Once again not saying MW2 is bad just saying it doesn't deserve GOTY.
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just2skillf00l
Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 5:42:29 AM
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BikerSaint
Saturday, December 12, 2009 @ 1:31:17 AM
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The PS3 is just helping by giving the 360 that one little extra push it needs
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airhead190
Saturday, December 12, 2009 @ 9:37:50 PM
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the only reason people have the 360 is it WAS cheaper therefore more people have been playing it. hopefully everyone gets a PS3 for christmas and they will see how ignorant they have been
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Lex Luthor
Sunday, December 20, 2009 @ 4:13:14 PM
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Anyway, good to see my favorite console is on the right track once again
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Fonzo
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Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 2:54:55 PM