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The action game Marvel’s Wolverine has already topped 12,000 reviews on the PlayStation Store with a stellar 4.85-star average, sparking discussion on 5ch’s Hardware & Industry (“Geha”) board. There’s precedent for this kind of thing: Monster Hunter Wilds got a lukewarm reception on Steam but scored above 4 stars on the PS version. Thread posters debated the mechanics behind the ratings, with some arguing “PlayStation users never leave harsh reviews” and others countering “only people who bought the digital download can review at all, so of course it skews positive.” Still, posters who’d actually played the game shared genuinely favorable impressions of the graphics and controls, showing the reaction wasn’t purely a numbers debate.
What people said
Exactly
Though it's only 4.2
Anything goes these days
Any reality they don't like gets written off as bots, buyouts, manipulation, stealth marketing, or impersonation
Anything goes
Only digital buyers can even leave a review though
Only played a bit yesterday, but the graphics are gorgeous, the character controls feel about average (not especially easy),
the enemies are decently tough, and the cutscenes give every character a lot of personality — it's pretty solid
Sony itself can tweak this however they want
they're the platform admin after all
Exactly this
Same padding as with XIV (Final Fantasy XIV)
Steam was overwhelmingly negative while the PS Store sat at like 4 or 5 stars
That's talking about Nintendo fanboys who barely get any multiplatform titles lol
Actually, Nintendo hardware gets more multiplatform titles overall
Even Wilds got a ridiculously generous 4.1
Metascore's gotten pretty untrustworthy lately
Honestly it was already off back when Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey both scored 97
Depending on how it shakes out, we'll see exactly how biased PS fans' ratings are toward their own
Then again, if the game's actually good, outsider and insider scores should even out fine
"It's the PS Store reviews!"
Don't you gokis (a mocking 5ch term for PlayStation fans) have any words of your own lol
My condolences 🥺
Guess that's the template for future PS5 first-party titles
I think the Wolverine formula is solid
– Strong IP
– Short time to finish
– No weird bogged-down sections
– Great graphics, high framerate
– Heavy focus on story and drama
Ideal
Reality
The real problem is that 70% of Steam users are running PCs weaker than a PS5
That's more than the actual review count, lmao — typical Sony ("サスソニ," meaning "classic Sony")
What are you even talking about?
Still saying this lol
Your feed's just skewed because you only follow people like that lol
That's the trusted, proven track record of the PS crowd for you
[Good news] Monster Hunter Wilds hits 400k concurrent players lmaooo
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1740720223/728
Post 728: Anonymous ("desperate as always") — posted 2025/02/28 (Fri) 18:05:29.03 ID:pKDpdxp8d
Re: #1
Review counts:
PS (store only): 24,491 reviews, ★4.60
Steam: 3,108 reviews, Mixed
Background and Key Points of the Debate
The PlayStation Store’s review system generally only lets users who’ve purchased the digital download post a review. Unlike Steam, this makes it less likely for complaints tied to varying hardware setups to slip in — but it also skews the pool toward people who already committed to buying, which tends to push scores higher. The thread’s go-to example, Monster Hunter Wilds, drew a wave of complaints on Steam over low-spec PC performance issues and settled at a “mixed” rating there, while the PS version of the same game scored highly — so this kind of cross-platform rating gap isn’t unique to this case. At the same time, posters voiced distrust of Metascore and IGN’s review standards (bringing up the story of a reviewer said to have been fired over a spiteful review written in anger at disc drives being dropped), reflecting lingering skepticism toward review scores in general. That said, posters who’d actually played the game also shared favorable impressions of the controls, graphics, and content volume — a detail that’s easy to miss amid the pure numbers debate.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Hardware & Industry, “Geha”) thread “Wolverine getting huge praise from PlayStation fans!!! Already 12,000 reviews on the PS Store with a 4.85-star rating!!!!!!“
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