Numbers End the Console War....for Now

[TTR Dr Payne]

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All across the internet, fanboys argue daily about which console has the best games. While the question is ultimately subjective by nature, that doesn’t stop the xbots, PS3 droids, and Nintendo fans from ranting and raving in defense of their favorite console. The Exploding Barrel has decided to break out the old calculator and do a little number crunching to find out which console indeed does have the highest rated games. Here’s how it works: First, we pulled the top 20 game scores from metacritic (if you don’t believe us, feel free to click on the links) for each console and calculated the mean for each set. Next, we examined cross-console titles to test variations in score for each console. If you don’t agree with these numbers, don’t get mad at us. You can get mad at math you fanboy fool.
Xbox 360
1 Grand Theft Auto IV 98
2 BioShock 96
3 Orange Box, The 96
4 Gears of War 94
5 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The 94
6 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 94
7 Halo 3 94
8 Guitar Hero II 92
9 Rock Band 92
10 Mass Effect 91
11 Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 90
12 Forza Motorsport 2 90
13 Call of Duty 2 89
14 Rez HD 89
15 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night 89
16 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 89
17 Burnout Revenge 89
18 Virtua Fighter 5 89
19 Burnout Paradise 88
20 Project Gotham Racing 3 88

Top Score: 98
Low Score: 88
Mode (most frequent) Score: 89
Mean (average) Score: 91.55
Playstation 3
1 Grand Theft Auto IV 98
2 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 94
3 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots 94
4 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The 93
5 Rock Band 92
6 Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction 89
7 Orange Box, The 89
8 Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune 88
9 Ninja Gaiden Sigma 88
10 GRID 88
11 Burnout Paradise 87
12 Unreal Tournament 3 86
13 Resistance: Fall of Man 86
14 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 86
15 NHL 08 86
16 MLB 08: The Show 85
17 Battlefield: Bad Company 85
18 Virtua Fighter 5 85
19 Super Stardust HD 85
20 skate 85

Top Score: 98
Low Score: 85
Mode (most frequent) Score: 85
Mean (average) Score: 88.45
Nintendo Wii
1 Super Mario Galaxy 97
2 Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The 95
3 Super Smash Bros. Brawl 94
4 Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition 91
5 Metroid Prime 3: Corruption 90
6 Okami 89
7 Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure 87
8 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock 86
9 Super Paper Mario 85
10 Boom Blox 85
11 No More Heroes 83
12 MLB Power Pros 83
13 BlastWorks: Build, Trade, Destroy 83
14 WarioWare: Smooth Moves 83
15 Bully: Scholarship Edition 83
16 Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 83
17 Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection 82
18 Mario Kart Wii 82
19 Madden NFL 07 81
20 Rock Band 81

Top Score: 97
Low Score: 81
Mode (most frequent) Score: 83
Mean (average) Score: 86.15
Side By Side Comparison
Console Top Score Low Score Mode Mean
Xbox 360 98 88 89 91.55
Playstation 3 98 85 85 88.45
Nintendo Wii 97 81 83 86.15
Console Exclusives
Xbox 360 Score PS3 Score
Bioshock 96 Metal Gear Solid 4 94
Gears of War 94 Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction 89
Halo 3 94 Resistance: Fall of Man 86
Mass Effect 91 Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune 88
Forza Motorsport 90

360 Mean: 93__________________________PS3 Mean: 89.25
Cross-Platform Comparisions
Grand Theft Auto IV Score
360 98
PS3 98
The Orange Box Score
360 96
PS3 89
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Score
360 94
PS3 93
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Score
360 94
PS3 94
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Vegas Score
360 89
PS3 86
Burnout Paradise Score
360 88
PS3 87
Rock Band Score
360 92
PS3 92
Wii 81
Virtua Fighter 5 Score
360 89
PS3 85

So how do we make sense out of all of these numbers? Well, they seem to infer that right now the Xbox 360 has a slightly better library than the PS3 or the Nintendo Wii. However, cross-platform scores between the 360 and the PS3 are almost identical. The Orange Box and Virtua Fighter 5 are the exception’s to this trend with a whopping 7 and 5 point differential respectively. The Nintendo Wii is truly out in its own big blue ocean only sharing one of its top twenty releases with the other two consoles in Rock Band. Right now, you may be saying “But what do these numbers really mean?” The answer dear gamers is simple. They mean whatever you want them to mean. 360 fanboys can gloat about a 3 point score advantage. PS3 fanboys can point to identical scores across titles, and Nintendo fans can point to the exclusivity of their titles. At the end of the day, they are still just numbers, but numbers never lie….right?

[paintba||er]

So now you're mirroring the articles that the spambot posts?

[TTR Dr Payne]

I never saw the spambot post this, and even if it it, I posted it first

Its an interesting article, thats why I posted it.

[paintba||er]

You didn't post it first...