Data Implies Wii U, Wii, and PS1 Had Worst Launch Games

[xPixelatedx]

Wow... just wow, I am calling complete total BS on this, Specially since the PS1 launch games were the strongest launch lineup of any Sony console. Let me put it this way, there is a reason why they ended up making a PS2 and PS3; first impressions were good, damn good.

Battle Arena Toshinden and the first Ridge Racer were both among the launch games. Can't think of a single decent game for the launch of the PS2 or 3, in fact my PS2 was a doorstop for an entire year as I rented disappointment after disappointment for it. In the launch window for the PS1 there was also: Wipeout, Jumping Flash, Tekken, Twisted Metal, Warhawk and Tomb Raider. I consider these games the best of what Sony has ever offered.

 

[OldNewNewOld]

I have to disagree.
I didn't find even 1 game in the PS360 launch even a tiny bit interesting. The PS360 had the worst launch of them all. The Wii had at least Twilight Princess and Wii Sports. (yeah sue me, but Wii Sports is one of the best party games I've ever played).

 

[Cid Silverwing]

PlayStation had it worst, you say?

Good thing they fired that fuck at Sony America who kept saying no to all the groundbreaking games that eventually got released.

 

[Jiefu]

I think the main problem here is that this implies that the average metacritic score is a meaningful number. Ignoring any and all problems with metacritic itself (not the point here), using the mean sends the message that the quality of one game has bearing on the quality of another game. This is pretty much entirely incorrect (although I think we can all admit that, at points, one game has spoiled another for us - such as a sequel with quality of life improvements, but that's not really the issue here). The Wii, Wii U, and PS1 represent the three largest shifts in technology (unique controls, unique controls, and first serious 3D, respectively) in the selection of consoles, and thus are more prone to having major failures. In contrast, the 360 and Gamecube represent very direct technological leaps and thus have fewer failed experiments to drag the mean down. Looking at the GCN's launch lineup, there's nothing really mold-breaking there. The biggest risk is Luigi's Mansion, and that game's risk is "not Mario", not strange new technology.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Yes, and the PS1 went on to become a smash success as did the Wii. Thus proving the launch don't mean shit, yo.

 

[Strazdas]

Only proves that beating a dead horse and making mario 25 doesnt actually work.
then again, people still buy it, so what the hell, why not abuse stupidity of userbase?

P.S. capcha: spelling bee. really, capcha is into dark humour today.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

Only proves that beating a dead horse and making mario 25 doesnt actually work.

Right, That's why the Gamecube is on the top of that list. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi%27s_Mansion] That's also why the N64 is in 3rd Place... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_64]

OT: I don't trust this graph, nor do I trust Launch Titles to mean how well a System will and won't do.

 

[Quaxar]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/DataTNG.jpg/250px-DataTNG.jpg
> Data implies

Cannot unsee...

 

[gim73]

Launch games... hmph! Those are pretty much a joke. I owned my PS2 for months, using it as a DVD player before I really started getting games I wanted to play on it. In the end, the PS2 had a longer lifetime and more enjoyable games than any other system. Nintendo tends to put out some solid first party games at every system launch. This would tend to favor them because their third party support is complete trash, or only released in japan. The Wii benefited LARGELY from the lousy economy, being the cheapest system out there (due to releasing a system only marginally better than the gamecube). Easily the best Wii games pretty much required you to buy the game controller to play with any amount of enjoyment. Then we get the Xbox360, which looks worse than the PS3, but is cheaper and doesn't have some of the game breaking glitches that almost all the PS3 games experienced at launch.

Now the SNES had a grand lineup of titles at launch, a successful run and pretty much some of the best games of all time.

 

[grigjd3]

Seems there might be systematic reviewing biases here. If a console was the first of it's generation, the graphics present far more of a wow factor and this could trend it up as compared to other consoles during the same generation. Then again, I imagine the standard deviations of these averages is quite large so maybe it's all just a wash anyhow.

 

[dantoddd]

i would go a step further and normalize the results by dividing the average for each console by the average score for a contemporary game.

 

[babinro]

This thread is funny because I kept reading articles or comments saying how strong the WiiU launch titles are. I think a few times this statement was made by the Escapist as well.

My favorite all-time console is the Gamecube and so it's nice to see it in number one slot for something, lol.

 

[Squilookle]

The Wii could have had the greatest launch lineup in history if they had just sorted out the Virtual Console to have everything available from day one. Unfortunately they messed it up so utterly and extravangantly that the Wii now sits near the bottom, and deservedly so, too.