PS3 - Metacritic's console of the year!

irishman123

"Sony’s Playstation 3 console has edged out Microsoft’s once-dominant Xbox 360 to finish on top in Metacritic’s first annual Game Platform Power Rankings".

http://features.metacritic.com/features/2009/the-best-games-of-2009/

mcgovern

irishman123 wrote: »

"Sony’s Playstation 3 console has edged out Microsoft’s once-dominant Xbox 360 to finish on top in Metacritic’s first annual Game Platform Power Rankings".

http://features.metacritic.com/features/2009/the-best-games-of-2009/

Bit silly really, without Braid (which wasn't counted for the 360 because it wasn't this year) they'd have been equal.

quad_red

That's a bit ridiculous

It's rating the PS3 higher than the 360 cos 43% of it's games were rated as 'good' (as opposed to 35% on the 360).

But the 360 had more games released. So whilst the PS3 had 98 'good games' (43% of 228) the 360 had 97.65 (35% of 279).

That's a 0.35% difference.

In terms of top reviewed games, Uncharted is a clear standout at 96. But the rest are either multi-platform or within a percentage of one another. (God of War being a PS2 game etc.).

Still, it's great to see the PS3's library getting beefed up a bit with some nice exclusives. Must pick up Uncharted 2.

elgriff

Your post is ridiculous.

You point out that the PS3 had a better percentage of good games, and more actual good games. So how is it not the year's winner?

L31mr0d

quad_red wrote: »

That's a 0.35% difference.

elgriff wrote: »

So how is it not the year's winner?

I think the point he's trying to make is that the difference is negligible. In fact anything lower than a percent difference is a tie in my books. Also, how do you get 0.65 of a game. Effectively the numbers are equal.

Regardless, it has been a good year for the PS3. If anything I'm glad to see it neck and neck with the 360.

quad_red

What L31mr0d said.

Retr0gamer

Doesn't mean anything. All I know is that this year I actually had a few good reasons to turn my PS3 on.