Metacritic has published some really interesting results for 2017. According to its 2017 survey, the PC had more good games than any console in 2017. While there were only three games that scored above 90%, the PC had 40 exclusive games that scored above 75%, offering PC gamers a variety of games to choose from.
As we can see below, PS4 had 20 exclusive games that scored above 75%, Xbox One had 1 exclusive game, and Nintendo Switch had 13 exclusive games. This basically means that the PC platform offered the most “good” exclusive titles in 2017, proving its superiority over consoles. And since we know that some gamers may be surprised by this, go ahead and take a look at the following graph.
Moreover, the PC platform featured the most multi-platform games that landed a green Metascore in 2017. As Metacritic noted:
“The overall number of good PC games actually increased in the past year: 205 titles landed a green Metascore in 2017 compared to 178 in 2016. That means there were more good PC games to choose from than in any year since we began compiling these year-end surveys in 2009. And no console had that many options.”
Taking a closer look at the PC graphs, we can see some of the highest scoring PC games. Divinity: Original Sin 2 was the highest rated PC game, followed by Okami HD, Bayonetta, Lone Echo and – surprisingly enough – F1 2017. Rez Infinite is in sixth place, followed by What Remains of Edith Finch and XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. Cuphead and Night in the Woods were in the ninth and tenth place, respectively.
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Yet they don’t have award winning games like Zelda, Mario, HZD, Persona lolololol
soon….
What? Im playing botw at 4k and 60 fps. You mad? You know… the goty
A real released on PC not something that you can emulate little boi
It works on PC weather its an official release or not, its as real as playing it on WiiU or Switch except it runs and looks better on PC. The best version of BOTW is only playable on PC. Same goes for Mario.
Besides, expect Persona to be fluidly playable on 4K on RPCS3 in the coming months.
When the “fake” PC release surpasses the official console release by a country mile, what does it matter? And Persona 5 is really getting there, so look forward to being salty over that too.
Hope you enjoy it. Its good to know you are starving and desperate for great games though….. and PS3 games too. So we can pretty much confirm you were utterly jealous almost a decade ago over games like Demon Souls, God of War 3 or Uncharted 2 even though you never would have admitted it in a million years back then.
Of course, PS3 games weren’t that important or impressive and were overrated GOTY material back when you couldn’t emulate them on a PC in any actual playable state.
“real released” If you can play a game, it doesn’t matter if it’s emulated or not or whether the publisher authorized it or not. Your argument doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
In this case emulation beats the original in most cases so eat sh*t
It’s the same game, AND it plays&looks better on PC as usual, so…
So by your logic, Gamecube and N64 games on the Wii are not “real releases”, since when can you put all your old games into a Switch? Oh that’s right, you can’t.
nope piracy doesn’t count
but do sales coming out piracy count?
Ask all those nintendo fans about Homebrew and how you can pirate Wii games.
you filthy pirate
Apparently you didn’t read the article. The PC platform has the most highly rated exclusives. The end. Pick any console and it won’t have access to “exclusive” games from the other consoles or PC. In the end, PC has the most highly rated and coveted exclusives. So console gaming can’t even claim exclusivity as a major selling point anymore.
Horizon Zero Dawn go REKT and playstation fanboys can’t take it, you can even see them here claiming that it’s metascore is higher than any PC game when it’s only 89% LOL
That game is one of the only actual exclusives that stayed exclusive but one really good game isn’t worth it to buy an entire piece of hardware that can only play video games.
Because the vga are biased toward consoles…divinity original sin 2 is superior to persona 5 by miles.
And besides zelda is emulated on pc on superior settings than the switch with better graphics pack at 4k and 60fps.
Persona 5 is also getting there with the ps3 emulator.
As for horizon zero dawn it was a great game but it did not win nothing it was just nominated.
Btw i own also a ps4,ps3,psp and nintendo switch.
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Nor does any one individual console.
Console multiplats sell more than their exclusives, another nail in the coffin of console exclusive bragging.
“HZD”
You mean horizon zero awards?
As for zelda and mario, thats like saying, we dont have thousands of doom wads coming out every year.
Persona is niche
You can pick up a Wii for £40 for goodness sake and HZD is as unoriginal as you can get. Also, you can use wii controller on the PC, games look and run way better.
So you’d rather play just 1 good game instead of several good games?
Meh?
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There’s no doubt that consoles had some great games this year, but PC had a stellar year as well.
-Only the worst, most redundant console had access to Cuphead
-PC already has the best version of BotW, with Persona 5 probably not being far behind
-PC had a few great exclusives like Divinity and Hollow Knight (though the latter is admittedly coming to Switch next month)
-We got a few of the year’s best games that were once set to be PS4 exclusives in NieR and Nioh
-PUBG, for all it’s (many) faults, was the biggest game of the year and is pretty damn fun when everything works as intended
2017 was one of the best years for gaming in recent memory, and only the Xbone really lost out big time.
Exactly. And console exclusivity is already becoming more and more rare. The ever rising costs of game development can’t justify most games being artificially relegated to one platform.
Console exclusivity is becoming more and more rare for ONE particular console and you know it lol.
Xbox and Playstation. At least Nintendo’s first party games never ever leave their system. Although emulation takes care of that, too.
hahhahahahhahah basically you are saying that console win again lol too much piracy and indie garbage like getting over it on the pc
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win what? Horizon Zero Awards?
Console gaming is dying. face it.
Horizon got a better Metascore than ANY of the shovelware trash that released on the PC in 2017 you ignorant, butthurt loser of society. The graphs presented in this article prove that. You may actually want to read articles and fact sheets before commenting on them…..or you’re going to make yourself look utterly retarded…..again.
Horizon Zero Dawn got 89% you idiot, 7 games on PC including PC exclusives matched or beat that in 2017.
Yea, no, it didn’t.
PS4 was the most successful console of all time but somehow console gaming is still dying ? Sense that makes not…
No it’s not and it’s sold 53 million, way behind the PS1, PS2 and PS3.
How literally retarded are you? On a scale of 1 to apples?
Retarded for stating a fact ? OK buddy. Keep covering your ears and live in your pathetic little world.
You didn’t state a fact you worthless trash. You stated a moronic console fanboy casual opinion. Go back to GameSpot, IGN, or Reddit – whatever pathetic echo chamber you crawled out of – and leave. No one here likes you or agrees with you and multiple other people immediately proved you wrong..
Look it up, son. PS2 is the most successful console of all time. You may have difficulty telling the difference between 2 and 4 so I understand, it’s expected for a console boi.
The end. You’re done. You lose.
I’m a PC gamer you moron. Also the PS4 has only been out 4 years. In that time it sold more than PS2 or xbox 360 sold in their first 4 years.
PS4 AAA
Horizon Zero Dawn – 89%
PC Indie
Divinity: Original Sin 2- 93%
REKT
DOS 2 is coming to consoles too.
PC exclusives usually do go to consoles after a while because the studios have a choice in the matter, and don’t need them to sell PC’s, unlike consoles that need exclusives.
Was that supposed to be some kind of insult towards consoles ? lol
The Xbone didn’t really lose out at all though. There were only like 6 exclusives which didn’t come to Xbox One and no one really cares.
If I weren’t a PC gamer I’d be more than happy to just use my Xbox One for more than I currently do. They’ve absolutely killed it with customer experience. It’s back compatible across the entire Xbox product line and right now you can play 20 years of the best multiplatform and xbox exclusives on one system.
Getting Ninja Gaiden Black and Crimson Skies again on a current system completely outweighs uncharted 4 or horizon ZD or Odyssey or BOTW as far as I’m concerned. At least Uncharted and Horizon for sure.
Yeah i tend to enjoy PC focused games and indies more than the big budget AAA games. Sure Zelda and HZD were good but once i finished those games i hardly powered on my consoles for months.
I loved horizon zero dawn and i just got my switch and yes the emulated zelda breath of the wild is potentially better,but the fact i can bring my switch anywhere and play on my bed is pretty cool i can really say the switch is the most original console.
And on ps3 i played for the first time demons soul before thr closure of the servers and i really enjoyed it.
But anyway i still found myself playing more on pc this year
It was a great year for gaming overall
I’m surprised a VR only game like Lone Echo scored better than most games…and it deserves it to compared to all the other VR trash.
I heard Lone Echo is awesome(I don’t have it yet), but some of my favorite VR games/apps are extremely simple, low-budget games like BoxVR, RacketNX, LethalVR and Sairento. Presence and immersion strips away the necessity for big budgets and massive productions.
Maybe the bar is set lower for VR games since people have seen so much crap that everything decent stands out?
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lol
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pc sales are higher than ever, apart from origins, it it gets cracked maybe it gets sales as well. I find it funny that more and more studios close down and more and more franchises fail trying to appeal to CONSOLES and everyeone is sucessfull on pc.
Where is the proof that PC sales are low because of piracy? As usually you’re just butthurt that PC is doing well, that’s why you’re here because you’re so triggered. LMAO
This Kardashian person is a loser of epic proportions. It’s sofaking sad.
PC sales have grown even more now that regions like China are able to buy foreign games on platforms such as Steam when before if they wanted to play a foreign game they’d have no other choice but to pirate it.
3 VR-only games in the top 20. Impressed. And it’s only been two years since the first headsets came out and a little over a year since motion controllers debuted. The future is bright for the industry.
I got my Samsung Odyssey a month ago and I already had a foot out the door in regards to flat games but I think 2018 will be the first year in over 30 that I haven’t gotten a single new flat game; I bought one in 2017, Injustice 2 on Steam. VR has ruined pancake gaming for me. I’m naturally hyped about interactive entertainment for the first time in awhile and it’s only going to get better from here.
how do people enjoy playing Bayonetta? The camera is way too cramped I can’t see sh*t. Its way too “CINEMATIC”.
Yeah, platinum is way too overrated, strangely enough, my favorite platinum games is licensed titles such as Metal Gear Revengeance and Transformers Devastation
I hate having to constantly adjust the camera with my analog stick to keep alert of all the enemies around me.
I gave up playing after 30 mins. Funny because hack and slash is my 2nd favorite genre of games and Bayonetta looked hella interesting. But the camera is so bad I just couldn’t get in it.
I’m not bothered about most console exclusives these days, but damn Nintendo to hell for making me want Super Mario Odyssey so much
PC had more 60+fps games as well. In fact all of them, lulz.
hahahahhaah more good exlusives like getting over it LOL dota 2 and other garbage lol
haahha consoles have more exlusives like……pffft another zelda/mario game, no xbox exlusives and horizon zero awards.
Don’t forget Knack, Snipperclips, Godzilla, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5, Fighter Within, The Order: 1886 and Kinect Sports Rivals!
I always wondered if you really believe what you say on here or if you are 10 years old posting this crap online.
I hope this kill the bs mith of ” PC has only shovelware crap games ”
The only people who say that are plebs who are forced to settle for a console.
ms should release sunset overdrive to pc so we can bury this crapsole.
And Forza Horizon 2.
2017 absolutely sucked for pc gaming, building a pc is now even less affordable and there were very few redeeming ports or exclusives worth playing. Only thing to get excited about was was huge advances in emulation improvements like retroarch, cemu and rpcs3.
God there are so many absolute retards in these comments.
BUILDING a pc sucked because prices went up. Prices always go up. They only go down during certain periods of time during the year. Right now RAM is still super overpriced because good RAM is only produced in one place, just like drives are only produced in one place – the same place all electronic components are produced. And, it didn’t go up that much.
The PC I built in Oct. 2016 is only a couple hundred dollars more today than it was then. And that’s because the price of 1080s has actually gone up, and the price of RAM has gone up, and difference in sales, etc. So no, you’re wrong.
That has literally nothing to do with PC gaming. Most PC gamers , amazingly enough, ALREADY had a gaming PC.
It’s almost like we’re gamers and adults, and not plebeians who rush out and do whatever the current cool thing is that the reddit told us about.
Where is the proof that PC sales are low because of piracy? As usually you’re just butthurt that PC is doing well, that’s why you’re here because you’re so triggered. LMAO
So far the biggest joke here is Kim Kardashian West.
Too many indie and early access crap to interest me. Much more interesting games on the 3 consoles I have. Plus, 4k hdr is amazing.
Apples and oranges for some people.
For me, PC gaming had enough good games, that didn’t require me having to go out and buy 3 consoles for.
1440p 144hz has been amazing for me so far.
HAHAHAHA! LOL, the rich kid is trying to bring up some attention.
looks at list that includes console castoffs lmfao
So after you take away the literally 85% of games on console that are multiplats, what do you have exactly kid? Weeaboo games and overrated first party trash like Killzone or The Order?
just the industry leading titles that make steam look like a polluted app store
What’s interesting is that Metacritic proves Horizon: Zero Dawn, Persona 5 and Zelda: BOTW absolutely smashed anything that released on the PC in 2017.
Just goes to show that 4k @120fps doesn’t count for anything if the gameplay is trash……
PS4
Persona 5 – 93%
Horizon Zero Dawn 89%
PC
Divinity: Original Sin II – 93%
Okami HD – 93%
Now f*ck off Playsation fanboy.
lol removed from ps4 site n4g
undertale second best rated in PS4,
and I thought that console players did not like “garbage” indie games.
This isn’t news we all knew this.
But the fact that PUBG has a meta of 86 is a travesty. There are so many games that are so many orders of magnitude better than that trash that have lower scores on meta, ugh.
I bought two. And I have a better gaming PC than you and over 2000 games on it.
You don’t need to feel sorry for me bro. I like my Xbox. I use it for Plex and Netflix and backwards compatibility when I’m bored.
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