Whats With Wiis Low Review Scores?
The Wii is the hot item these days–so why are review scores for Wii games significantly lower than those of Xbox 360 and PlayStation titles? Matt Matthews investigates the numbers behind the phenomenon. While doing some data trawling through GameRankings recently, I ran across a phenomenon on the Wii that I hadn’t really seen quantified before. The average of all Xbox 360 reviews cataloged on GameRankings turns out to be almost 70%. The same number for the PlayStation 3 is over 73% and for the Nintendo Wii … a dismal 64%. A picture says it best: Normally, I’d be inclined to dismiss discrepancies in review scores, but a 9-point gap between the PlayStation 3 and the Wii is hard to ignore. Even the Xbox 360 has a nearly 6-point advantage over the Wii. (The standard deviation for these data sets is around 12-14 points, for comparison. However, that alone doesn’t tell the whole story. Rather, one should observe that a subset of data — the roughly 150 Wii games in the whole data set — h
