MetaScoreLens: Evaluating User Feedback Across Digital Entertainment Systems

TL;DR

This study compares user review ratings across four major gaming platforms using statistical analysis, revealing significant differences in user satisfaction levels among them.

Contribution

It applies statistical methods to a large dataset to systematically compare user feedback across gaming systems, providing insights into platform-specific user preferences.

Findings

PC games received the highest user ratings

Xbox and PlayStation had moderate ratings

Nintendo games received the lowest ratings

Abstract

The popularity of electronic games has grown steadily in recent years, attracting a broad audience across age groups. With this growth comes a large volume of related data, prompting efforts like the PlayMyData to compile and share structured datasets for academic use. This study utilizes such a dataset to compare user review ratings across four current-generation gaming systems: Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. Statistical methods, including analysis of variance (ANOVA), were applied to identify differences in average scores among these platforms. The findings indicate that PC titles tend to receive the most favorable user feedback, followed by Xbox and PlayStation, while Nintendo games showed the lowest average ratings. These patterns suggest that the platform on which a game is released may influence how players evaluate their experience. Such results may be valuable to developers and industry stakeholders in making informed decisions about future investments and development priorities.