Tag: Metacritic
News Metacritic Crowns Sony the Best Games Publisher of 2022
Last year's games were "consistently good"
Each year, Metacritic runs the numbers on all the games released in the previous 12 months to determine which publisher put out the best stuff. The site, which aggregates review scores across all popular media, has crunched all that data, and coming out on top for 2022 is Sony Interactive Entertainment...
News Metacritic Dubs Capcom the Best Publisher of 2018
Sony at number 6
Aggregate site Metacritic doesn't just average out review scores -- it holds a lot of interesting information across various types of media. Each year, the site crunches the numbers to determine which game publisher performed the best in terms of the number of games released and how they fared critically. For 2018, it's Capcom that...
News Bethesda Softworks Was 2017's Best Publisher, According to Metacritic
Rating by numbers
Media score aggregate site Metacritic has unveiled some new statistics this week, revealing its list of publishers that performed the best in 2017. To calculate this, it's taken all of a publisher's games released last year and averaged their scores, and figured out the percentage of games that have received what Metacritic...
News PS4 Was the Console with the Most Quality Exclusives in 2016
According to Metacritic, anyway
Metacritic has put together its annual industry summary, revealing that the PlayStation 4 was the console with the most quality exclusives in 2016. According to the site's data, the system landed 13 exclusives with a Metascore of 75 or above, while the Wii U and Xbox One could muster just three and four respectively...
News PS4 Games Secure Highest Console Average Score on Metacritic
Weak lineup? Computer says no
Being the current hotness, the PlayStation 4 has come under increased scrutiny. But according to Metacritic, the console had the best games this year – assuming that we pop PC and portables in a different category. In truth, the system's average Metascore of 70.5 was barely above the Xbox One – but over 70 more...
News Actually, PS4 Had the Most Great Games This Year
Don't shoot the messenger
There's an image from Nintendo doing the rounds that claims that the Wii U had the most great games this year. It uses a combination of Metascore and user score from aggregation website Metacritic to draw its conclusion, which struck us as an unusual fusion of information. Perhaps this is because the aforementioned...
News Playstation 3 Tops Out Metacritic's Annual Game Platform Power Rankings
Sony's Playstation 3 has beaten out all competition to take Metacritics first annual "Game Platform Power Rankings"
The chart uses Metacritic's powerful critic aggregating tool to find the platform with the strongest games lineup over the past 12 months. With five of the top ten over all games, Playstation 3 games managed a median Metascore of...
