Didnt know whether to put this in games or consoles... O.o

But this article seems to found a very interesting set of data on Metacritic...



Basically, the guy has gone through metacritic.... and worked out the average (Using the median, not the mean) to work out roughly which games console has been the best over the years... He tested 13 consoles across all of their games.... Pretty interesting findings!

Good old Dreamcast.

Yup ^^ I was pretty surprised to see that at second overall too!

The Original Soul Calibur was its top game

Soilcaliber = win
i think ive completely skipped 3 which consoles did that come out for???? cus i can't remeber hearing anything about it i remeber 2 cus it had link in
deffo getting 4 tho it loooks sweeeet
ive only played on sonic adventure for dreamcast and it was slightly worse than Sonic Adventure 2 battle in the sense the graphics were blurry, but otherwise gameplay was similar and i liked

Dreamcast being second... it's not that suprising really, in fact it's kind of expected...

Being it has such a short life before it flopped, its life was in the time where most of the major launch titles and first year after titles were out, that are generally good quality first or second party games. Third party games, those more likely to bring them down in a rush, would have been more likely to be cancelled due to the flopping, cos whats the point in developing for a console that isn't there anymore, so the bad quality stuff never gets released. This stops the score being lowered, therefore we expect a much higher result.

It still had more titles than the N64, and had/has nearly as many as the PS3 currently...

Wow, the N64 didn't have many titles at all did Ninty stop 3rd party games or have strict quality controls?

To be honest, the consoles get more bad games as bad games become easier to shovel on them. That's why the Wii has the worst score - it has the largest audience of any console, and the easiest market (casual gamers).

TBH, I'm surprised the PC did so well, we have loads of random rubbish put on us. Seriously, companies release games for £5 that look like they'd profit from one sale, they are THAT bad.Not surprised we get the lowest low score, though.

these ratings prove nothing !!!!

btw, i loved the dreamcast

I reckon the best game on the N64 was Perfect Dark. But even back then, I wished for it to be more responsive with a KB and mouse, LOL!

And yes, the Dreamcast was the best console ever.

Yeah, back then Ninty were UBER strict on 3rd party stuff... It says so in the article ^^

This quite obiously proves that the N64 is the god of all consoles Highest score ever, AND the best median score? I think that means its the best It also didnt have the lowset score either

Nah, it just shows they had crazy quality control, as you say. If you make sure that only good stuff gets released, you are going to get the best scores, but not much of a game range.

Speaking of game ranges - The PS2 nearly has as many games as the PC

ps2 had loooooooooads of games

And still does, some developers IIRC still develop for the PS2 for people who cba with the PS3

Or all those movie games that are released on every platform that look like they're from 5 years ago.

Iron man anyone?

We know it gets bad when we get to this:

Half-Life 2: The Movie: The Game

¬¬ Oh yes lets make a game based around a movie based around a sodding game

whats wrong with that? some people are willing to pay £40 for such things

Games of movies suck so bad. Anyone seen the new Hulk game? It looks like it's from 8 years ago...

maybe thats how they intended it to look

The only games that have ever been based on a movie and half decent were james bond ones o.O

But they kind of pulled away from the whole movie thing and now make random ones that quite franky suck..

agent under fire was an amazing game

Thats the last one I really played properly. Wasn't to bad but really no goldeneye from N64

Best game ever made ;D

:O the best game ever made is kung fu chaos !!!

I'm split between Perfect Dark on N64 and Phantasy Start Online Ver. 2 on DC.

Think you meant GC aaron..

But yeah that was an awesome game xP

PSO universe on PC made the game pretty cool but the story mode began to suck because you were forced to use one class type