AAA+'s this year: PS3: 9, PC: 8, 360: 7, Wii: 3, DS: 3, PSP: 2, PS2: 1

http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?type=top_rated&mode=all&sort=score&dlx_type=all&date_filter=year&sortdir=asc&official=all%20»

Listen, I am too lazy to make a list of games for each platform. You can count yourself. PS3 beat PC, and every other platform this year, with a total of 2 AAAA games.

Congratulations, PS3. You won 2008. You beat the juggernaut known as PC even with Fallout getting an 8.5 on your system.

I count 9 for PC too :Plocopatho

[QUOTE="locopatho"]I count 9 for PC too :PDick_Derringer

Good for Ps3, but I usually count everything above an A when I look at a platforms lineup.Vaasman

[QUOTE="Dick_Derringer"][QUOTE="locopatho"]I count 9 for PC too :PDeathScape666

[QUOTE="Dick_Derringer"][QUOTE="locopatho"]I count 9 for PC too :PDeathScape666

No, downloable games DO NOT count.DeathScape666

The PC has 9. Count again.

Those games are:

• Grand Theft Auto IV
• World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
• Crysis Warhead
• Mass Effect
• Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor
• Dead Space
• Fallout 3
• Sins of a Solar Empire
• World of Goo

The PC wins the AAA exclusives battle with 4 AAA+ exclusives (the bolded) against the PS3's 3:

• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
• Resistance 2
• LittleBigPlanet

[QUOTE="Dick_Derringer"][QUOTE="locopatho"]I count 9 for PC too :PDeathScape666

[QUOTE="DeathScape666"]No, downloable games DO NOT count.foxhound_fox

[QUOTE="DeathScape666"][QUOTE="Dick_Derringer"] YupDick_Derringer

[QUOTE="Dick_Derringer"][QUOTE="DeathScape666"] No, downloable games DO NOT count.DeathScape666

They are graded on an entirely different scale. If they were retail games for 50 dollars, they would get a much lower score. On top of that, we never count the Wii's VC games. Suddenly we are counting other platforms' downloadable titles once it starts benefitting them? No, I don't think we've ever done this before.DeathScape666

[QUOTE="DeathScape666"]No, downloable games DO NOT count.foxhound_fox

[QUOTE="DeathScape666"][QUOTE="Dick_Derringer"] Every PC game is downloadable. :|Dick_Derringer

[QUOTE="Dick_Derringer"][QUOTE="DeathScape666"] Stop being a smart-alec. :|DeathScape666

[QUOTE="DeathScape666"]They are graded on an entirely different scale. If they were retail games for 50 dollars, they would get a much lower score. On top of that, we never count the Wii's VC games. Suddenly we are counting other platforms' downloadable titles once it starts benefitting them? No, I don't think we've ever done this before.foxhound_fox

To put it quite simply, the quality of the game doesn't have to match up to the other big name titles, and there are so many big downloable titles that aren't reviewed yet that it would be extremely unfair to include them. That's unfair for Wii mostly, because it had a lot of big name downloable titles that went un-reviewed.

Yes, but we are talking about the here and now, and not how the future will go. I understand what you are saying, but it doesn't have to do with the year 2008.

[QUOTE="DeathScape666"][QUOTE="Dick_Derringer"] Who are you to decide which PC games count as "full games" and which ones are considered "downloadable games?" Fallout 3 is sold at retail and Steam. World of Goo is sold at retail and Steam. Where's the difference?Dick_Derringer

How can anyone deny PS3 won this year. signore

Are you choosing to ignore the fact that World of Goo is sold at retail or are you seriously ignorant of the fact?Dick_Derringer

The thing is that World of Goo's quality doesn't have to be as high as all the other games released for the platform. Look at how expansive, massive, long, and a bunch of other adjectives the other eight PC AAA games are. Don't get your person opinion into this about how "you love it," because that's irrelevant.

To put it quite simply, the quality of the game doesn't have to match up to the other big name titles, and there are so many big downloable titles that aren't reviewed yet that it would be extremely unfair to include them. That's unfair for Wii mostly, because it had a lot of big name downloable titles that went un-reviewed.

Yes, but we are talking about the here and now, and not how the future will go. I understand what you are saying, but it doesn't have to do with the year 2008.

DeathScape666

World of goo shouldn't count, it's an insult to compare it to the likes of Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution

[QUOTE="DeathScape666"]

The thing is that World of Goo's quality doesn't have to be as high as all the other games released for the platform. Look at how expansive, massive, long, and a bunch of other adjectives the other eight PC AAA games are. Don't get your person opinion into this about how "you love it," because that's irrelevant.

To put it quite simply, the quality of the game doesn't have to match up to the other big name titles, and there are so many big downloable titles that aren't reviewed yet that it would be extremely unfair to include them. That's unfair for Wii mostly, because it had a lot of big name downloable titles that went un-reviewed.

Yes, but we are talking about the here and now, and not how the future will go. I understand what you are saying, but it doesn't have to do with the year 2008.

foxhound_fox

It looks like a pretty close/even race for AAA+, but the PC completely demolishes the competition in AAs.

World of goo shouldn't count, it's an insult to compare it to the likes of Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution

Ncsoftlover

That is the point. If they WERE retail games they would be scored lower but they AREN'T. Braid is an original game. It is only available on XBLA (currently) for the price of 1200 MS points (~$15). If it were a $60 game it wouldn't have scored a 9.5/10. They are graded on the exact same scale, except Braid's value for money spent increases because it is cheaper.

If a game only available through a Digital Distribution service and an original title then it still counts. Games are games and the market shift away from retail has begun. If we go by your logic, in the future, no games will count.foxhound_fox

And why should they? The problem, for us at least, is that this throws off the count. If a downloadable game can reach AAA status by putting out less than a AAA, or perhaps even a AA retail game, then what does it count for? Is it equal to a AAA game? No, because as we've established, it just isn't on-par with one in terms of production value and what the player actually receives. Should we guesstimate the approximate score it would receive if it was on the same scale as a normal game? No, that's silly. So what do we do? We ignore them, at least in this context, because they don't "play by the rules" if you will, and we just don't know how to clasify them.

Downloadable games are great, they offer plenty of amazing experiences, and they fill their own special roles, but they can't be put on the same playing field as games that cost one hundred times (or more) as much to develop, without altering the way it's scored. In doing so, that playing field is no longer balanced.

Year of the PS3... while predicted last year... is finally CONFIRMED!

Looks like 2009 will be another repeat!!! (still say PS3 got gipped with Fallout 3 though, lol)

All this proves is that PC has higher standards.

I kid I kid.:D:P;)

Yep, so tie this year (except for Nintendo, sorry guys).

Edit: Actually, shouldn't we wait until the year is over? I mean Rise of the Argonaunts could still affect the list here.

Three-Way Tie! Lems, Cows and Hermits Party all day a night. :P

The PC has 9. Count again.

Those games are:

• Grand Theft Auto IV
• World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
• Crysis Warhead
• Mass Effect
• Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor
• Dead Space
• Fallout 3
• Sins of a Solar Empire
• World of Goo

The PC wins the AAA exclusives battle with 4 AAA+ exclusives (the bolded) against the PS3's 3:

• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
• Resistance 2
• LittleBigPlanet

Correct me if wrong.aliblabla2007

I own a PS3, 360, and a gaming pc.

I win.

why not use gamerankings? because the more accurate numbers aren't in favor of ps3? :roll:CheckingAvailab

When it comes to owning people here at GS, GameRankings is forbidden.

[QUOTE="aliblabla2007"]

The PC has 9. Count again.

Those games are:

• Grand Theft Auto IV
• World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
• Crysis Warhead
• Mass Effect
• Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor
• Dead Space
• Fallout 3
• Sins of a Solar Empire
• World of Goo

The PC wins the AAA exclusives battle with 4 AAA+ exclusives (the bolded) against the PS3's 3:

• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
• Resistance 2
• LittleBigPlanet

Correct me if wrong.DragonfireXZ95

If you're going to count goo for the pc, why are we not counting it for the wii? For that matter, why are we not counting braid and geometry wars if we're counting goo?

goo may be availible at retail for the PC in some locations(so i've heard), but it got the same score on both systems, is cheaper on wii and even has extras on wii(coop). If you're going to give it equal weight against LBP, MGS4 and the like then you should also be advocating for counting the wii as having 4 AAA games and the 360 as having 9 too.

The PC has 9. Count again.

Those games are:

• Grand Theft Auto IV
• World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
• Crysis Warhead
• Mass Effect
• Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor
• Dead Space
• Fallout 3
• Sins of a Solar Empire
• World of Goo

The PC wins the AAA exclusives battle with 4 AAA+ exclusives (the bolded) against the PS3's 3:

• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
• Resistance 2
• LittleBigPlanet

Correct me if wrong.aliblabla2007

[QUOTE="aliblabla2007"]

The PC has 9. Count again.

Those games are:

• Grand Theft Auto IV
• World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
• Crysis Warhead
• Mass Effect
• Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor
• Dead Space
• Fallout 3
• Sins of a Solar Empire
• World of Goo

The PC wins the AAA exclusives battle with 4 AAA+ exclusives (the bolded) against the PS3's 3:

• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
• Resistance 2
• LittleBigPlanet

Correct me if wrong.Truth-slayer

so is crysis and galactic civ. from what i can tell, system wars has always given equal weighting to expansions and retail games.

edit; I meant to say the old system wars. It's already been decided that we don't just go by the number of AAA/AA games but by our own arguements :)

yay for the wiii's number of AAA+'s this year! it just proved to all the sheep that sales dont make a console 'TEH BESTEST!'

Sale Sheep got -