Nintendo claims Wii U and 3DS have more ‘great games’ than Xbox One, PS4, and Vita combined

Jeff Grubb
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Mario Kart 8 is one of the great games Nintendo is boasting about.
Mario Kart 8 is one of the great games Nintendo is boasting about.

Nintendo is firing shots at the competition.

The publisher took to Facebook and Twitter to point out that its systems have more “great games” at retail than the Xbox One or PlayStation 4 put together. Nintendo defined great as those that have an 85 or higher score on the review-aggregation site Metacritic as well as a user score higher than 8.5, and it only considered retail releases. That means digital-only games like The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth don’t count, according to Nintendo. In total, the publisher claims it has 19 of these games while the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 only have eight combined.

So, what are these games that make the Nintendo systems must-own hardware, according to the company? Well, check out the infographic for yourself:

Nintendo infographic
Nintendo infographic

We checked Nintendo’s claim that Xbox One, PS4, and Vita only have eight retail games between them with a Metascore of 85 or higher as well as a user score of at least 8.5. Here they all are:

  • The Last of Us: Remastered (PS4)

  • Guilty Gear Xrd (PS4)

  • Persona 4: Golden (Vita)

  • Rayman Origins (Vita)

  • Rayman Legends (Vita)

  • Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster (Vita)

  • Tearaway (Vita)

  • LittleBigPlanet PS Vita (Vita)

Surprisingly, no Xbox One games have both an 85 Metascore and an 8.5 user score. Of course, measuring things this way makes Nintendo look very good. If you only look at Metascore, each system has several more “great games.”

 

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