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Who's winning the quality war?

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In the past few days there have been a lot of articles talking about who has been making the most money and which games has sold the most. The fact is that whichever company ends up with the biggest pot of cash wins, those are the simple rules of running a corporate empire.

However to us as gamers the most important thing is which platform gives us the best gaming experience. Now we could be logical and say that this is more a matter of personal taste than anything but then this article would end here and I need to stick in another 100 words.. 

So with that logic shoved nicely out of mind we get down to the finer details of finger pointing. When judging the quality of games we don’t really have any choice but to head on over to Metacritic who correlate all the reviews for us. 

So without further delay (47 words to go) here are the top 10 highest rated games of 2008

10. Braid (360)
9. Fallout 3 (Xbox 360 & PS3)
8. Gears of War 2 (360)
7. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
6. Chrono Trigger (DS)
5. Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3)
4. Bioshock (PS3)
3. LittleBigPlanet (PS3)
2. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 (PS2)
1. Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360 and PS3)

So trailing in stone last we have a three way tie between the Wii, DS and PS2. Next we have the 360 coming in with 3 (1+1+1+1 =4 apparently) entries and the console which seems to be the clear winner with 5 out of the top 10 best rated games is the PS3.

Personally I would throw Bioshock out as the 360 version is rated just as well and is therefore a bit misleading. If we did that the Wii would get another entry and would make the charts look slightly more realistic.

Last Updated: December 4, 2008

35 Comments

  1. darthdad

    December 4, 2008 at 11:20

    This should be good. 🙂

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  2. 0rk0

    December 4, 2008 at 11:34

    Another sad attempt to start a flame war…
    Wasn’t yesterdays article good enough for you?

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  3. LazySAGamer

    December 4, 2008 at 11:36

    ? Is it not interesting to see which platform has the better quality titles?

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  4. easy

    December 4, 2008 at 11:45

    it is interesting, but totally subjective.
    and i don’t see how this is flame baiting?

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  5. Inferno888

    December 4, 2008 at 11:47

    Again, it comes down to personal taste.

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  6. Fox1

    December 4, 2008 at 11:52

    ❗ Any game that required a patch after release to fix gameplay should be removed from that list because it’s impossible for some of us that don’t have Live to get our games patched 🙁

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  7. 0rk0

    December 4, 2008 at 12:36

    Personally I think the review scene isn’t as believable anymore. There’s questions over Metacritic’s points system, people being biased, people being persuaded by developers to give positive articles or delay negative ones.

    I say go to the developers site, see what it’s about listen to some word of mouth, with a pinch of salt, and make up your own mind.

    This article is aimed at starting a debate on whether or not the list is correct or not. But in the end it’s Megacritic’s opinion and it’s going to remain that.

    I’m not the only one thinking this to be bait, see Darthdad’s first comment. Don’t try to insult my intelligence by trying to convince me otherwise.

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  8. Valante

    December 4, 2008 at 13:14

    LittleBiPlanet – Highest rated exclusive of 2008

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  9. codemonkey

    December 4, 2008 at 14:33

    Then all of the games should be removed.

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  10. weirdiac

    December 4, 2008 at 14:49

    So the point of this article is to reiterate what is readily available on a different website? What a marvel of a website you have going on here.

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  11. ocelot

    December 4, 2008 at 15:11

    But but but PS3 has no games!!!!!

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  12. Anon

    December 4, 2008 at 15:25

    Stop making these bollocks articles. You suck.

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  13. shane

    December 4, 2008 at 15:32

    how does it suck? he simply pointing out the facts

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  14. Valante

    December 4, 2008 at 15:43

    LOL, this is another article on N4G – http://www.n4g.com/News-240720.aspx

    Who keeps putting them up??

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  15. baba

    December 4, 2008 at 15:53

    You surprised, or shocked?

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  16. anon

    December 4, 2008 at 16:11

    the 360 version of bioshock has a better meta score than the ps3 one… so yeah nice fact checkin. also weres MGS4 it has a better meta score than braid. Overall this was a pretty shitty
    article, way to go.

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  17. jonquil

    December 4, 2008 at 16:42

    you can’t count – both ps3 and xbox 360 have 5 games in the top ten (bioshock is also available on xbox 360)

    i don;t know why i bothered to point this out because I couldn’t really care less about such an arbitrary waste of time like this

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  18. Jeff

    December 4, 2008 at 16:44

    I count 4 titles for xbox360 on that list and Fable 2, Left4Dead are not on the list either. What a biased article.

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  19. SlippyMadFrog

    December 4, 2008 at 16:45

    First of all, MGS4 is on the list. Second of all, the list is from worst(top) to best(bottom). Maybe you should read the article first genius.

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  20. SlippyMadFrog

    December 4, 2008 at 16:47

    Whats the use of N4G then?

    N4G always attracts all kinds of special people.

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  21. ll

    December 4, 2008 at 17:37

    You can’t really count can you? X360 has 5 games in this list, as pointed out before me.

    Also, I don’t know how the list was compiled (or why you count in games that don’t even have 5 reviews), but head over to gamerankings and check the top 10 games of 2008 and you will see that 5 are for X360. Check the top 20 games of 2008 and you will see that 9 are X360.

    So your answer should be clear: just as in 2007, the X360 is leading the quality war in 2008.

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  22. auser

    December 4, 2008 at 17:53

    Ok. This article shows you’re simply stupid. But being more realistic you’re are just misleading people with your incompetence on doing this stuff.

    So, let’s count.

    Xbox 360 —> 3 entries. WTF

    1. Braid
    2. Fallout 3
    3. Gears of war 2
    4. GTA IV

    What just happened. The 360 has 4 entries not 3.
    And Bioshock was first on the 360, so there isn’t just 4 entries for the 360. There are 5. Then we’ll have a tie between 360 and Ps3.

    Personally i think all three are great machines. So do us all a favor a stop writing. Because honestly your job as an informer is real bad. Go do something else you can, and don’t try to fool us all pretending to be a game informer.

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  23. Nuno Figo

    December 4, 2008 at 18:06

    Ok, so lets head to gamerankings…
    Choosing 2008 releases… all platforms…

    Here we go:
    1 – GTA IV (PC, PS3, XBOX360)
    2 – LBP (PS3)
    3 – Bioshock (PS3 in 2008. PC, XBOX360 in 2007)
    4 – Gears of War 2 (XBOX360)
    5 – Fallout 3 (PC, PS3, XBOX360)
    6 – SSBB (Wii)
    7 – MGS4 (PS3)
    8 – Braid (XBOX360)
    9 – Rock Band 2 (all formats)
    10 – God of War – Chains of Olympus (PSP)
    11 – Mass Effect (PC, XBOX360)
    12 – Okami (Wii in 2008, PS2 in 2006)
    13 – Geometry Wars – RE2 (XBOX360. Don’t know about PC and Wii versions)
    14 – NHL 09 (all formats)
    15 – Dead Space (PC, PS3, XBOX360)
    16 – Rez HD (XBOX360 in 2008. Previously non-hd on PS2)
    17 – Fifa Soccer 2009 (all formats)
    18 – Left 4 Dead (PC, XBOX360)
    19 – Fable 2 (PC, XBOX360)
    20 – Burnout Paradise (PS3, XBOX360)

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  24. Fudzy

    December 4, 2008 at 21:01

    Here here.

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  25. LazySAGamer

    December 4, 2008 at 21:27

    I’m innocent I promise… I think it’s someone local though

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  26. LazySAGamer

    December 4, 2008 at 21:29

    If you checked the article it says that I am only including games released in 2008 and I even spoke about the Bioshock issue at the end.

    But yeah I can’t count and missed a 360 game so how :S

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  27. David Macphail

    December 4, 2008 at 23:14

    To all the non – gamers who were crying about the 360 having Bioshock as well perhaps you should learn to read.

    This is a list of the top 10 games that were released in 2008…….Bioshock (360) was released in 2007 – don’t you people know ANYTHING about videogames???

    If you idiot’s want to count Bioshock for the 360 then i’m counting COD4 for the PS3 and Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii. ❗

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  28. Jheweng

    December 5, 2008 at 03:40

    I’ve been to Japan and PS3 is VERY STRONG @ the land of the rising sun. And electronnics there is way advance. (Akihabara) Don’t believe that 360 is doing well. Is just MS is publishing that their consol is better. but they don’t tell you that failier rate they hide this to the consumer.

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  29. nyaede

    December 5, 2008 at 23:05

    Hey! Where’s World of Goo?

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  30. LazySAGamer

    December 6, 2008 at 01:07

    Number 11 (Wii)…. if we remove Bioshock it scrapes into the top 10

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  31. LazySAGamer's Mom's Boyfriend

    December 7, 2008 at 06:55

    HAAHHAHAHAHAH….What a BS article. What biased ass sheeeet. You are the most incompetent “game informer” in the short history of the Internet. Go to gamerankings like many have posted and get the real games up on there as I own all 3 systems and easily the 360 owns them all this year and all year’s past. Let’s put it this way, I have 40 Xbox 360 games, 6 PS3 games, and 7 Wii games. 360 all the damn way.

    And oh yeah…I own your mom LazySAGamer. But you knew that didn’t ya? 😆 😯

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  32. Summer

    February 28, 2009 at 12:14

    Does someone know when Riddick for Xbox360 will be released?

    Reply

  33. Geoff

    February 28, 2009 at 12:34

    It’s set to release in April of this year.

    Reply

  34. RogueOne

    February 28, 2009 at 19:14

    the term is ‘hear hear’

    Reply

  35. RogueOne

    February 28, 2009 at 19:19

    stop making these bollocks posts. You are an idiot

    Reply

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