Notaboutgames wrote:"I've just found a very strange thing about the metacritic score and how the final numbers are rounded. Take a look at Halo3:ODST and Uncharted 2 and how they are treated differently.
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Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's plans to increase every department's margins.
"The plan to move Xbox games to other platforms is codenamed "Latitude" internally, and I know there's debate and unease at Microsoft about whether or not this is a good idea. More upcoming Microsoft-owned games slated for PlayStation are already being developed. At least for now, they're potentially obvious games you'd most likely expect. And yes, while it's true Microsoft is a prolific publisher on PlayStation already, it has typically revolved around specific franchises like Minecraft. From what I've heard, Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's mandate to increase every department's margins. "
Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware.
i think it will kill off the xbox brand. windows will be fine.
but there is and would be a chance that xbox might be killed off in the future. if they fail to make the money they put in. imo.
"Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation"
Forza and Starfield next?
In the words of Phil Spencer when he was talking about Nintendo last year
“It's just taking a long time for Microsoft to see that their future exists off of their own hardware"
When the PS5 and the Xbox Series X/S first launched all the way back in 2020, console sales were not what either platform manufacturer wanted them to be. The pandemic slowed things down more than ever before, even though in the case of each next-gen console, all the units that were manufactured, sold.
Of course that didn’t last, and soon manufacturing limitations on the consoles were a thing of the past, and sales started to leap forward. For one next-gen console platform, at least.
I can see why Microsoft is putting their games on PlayStation with these numbers
Imagine how many copies of future games like Elder Scrolls VI, Blade, Indiana Jones and more they could sell if they went fully multiplatform.
Sony would probably be selling more if they stopped sending mixed signals about their future. Putting games on PC because you are taking data analytic advice from Microsoft about the future of consoles is folly and has limited their potential sales. Microsoft want Sony and the world to believe that consoles are done as a business so companies like Sony and Nintendo etc can end up serving Microsoft's platform. Remember when it comes to Microsoft "It is us or no one and the three E's" Don't fall for it.
L.O.L. I'm kinda surprised no one did this sooner (in which case they probably have just never publicly).
'Metacritic use mean average though. Maybe they should use more than 1 average method. To be honest i dont even rate meta highly anyway...no transparency in their weighing or credence to particular sites or no standard format or transparency in their site selection methods. Dedicated gaming sites get left out (especially from europe and asia) whilst movie publications like 'variety' are allowed in. No vote, not democracy...no thanks.'
Now they round some games down whilst rounding other games up.....seems meta is more flawed than i thought. Can somebody explain this or are ps3 fans just paranoid conspiracy lovers huh. This is not a big big thing but it does make you think.
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maths is maths and rounding up is not unusual for a number that has reached .5 or above but neither of the games have yet one is rounded up.......Im laughing whilst typing this btw as im sure the metacritic damage control team will get in here soon enough to put me right......;)
@notpill
the titles perfect.....its their act thats flaimbait. These slight differences in averages has been used/miss-used all gen so its obviously more important than some think. The media is and will always be somebodies tool no matter how insignificant things like this seem. Will we get a reason from metacritic themselves......eff no
Well, to settle the "flamebait" thing, why doesn't someone look at more titles and see if any 360 games have been rounded down in a simular manner or if any PS3 games have rounded up? Instead of just comparing two highly anticipated exclusives for each console? I would do it myself, but I can't be arsed and never go to metacritic.
Metacritic gives different publications different weights when averaging any type of media's metascore. They haven't revealed what their formula is, but they are completely honest about giving more reputable publications higher weights, and newer or less-known publications less weight.
97 is still a great metascore, especially for a PS3 exclusive. Will 6 tenths of a point really detract anyone who is remotely interested in the game from purchasing it?
Well thats just one more thing isn't it?