Yep, they need consistency. Especially with big single player games. An 87/88 is a great score, its easy for people not on playstation that constantly drops these kidn of games to laugh or mock or poke holes in them when they don’t get over a 90 but its harder to score that then it seems. A lot of 90+ MC scores are reserved for big legacy IP and Studios or new underdog type indies.
I hope this resets everyones expectations in the future
Yeah, I think only Uncharted, TLOU, and God of war are Sony's 90+ games, but everything else scores lower. I think people forget the reason why Sony is where they're at is consistency with their first party games. Plus, being strong in Japan makes them organically not miss on Japanese heavy hitters, which makes their ecoysytem enticing.
Anyways, this is a fine score, and Microsoft needs to get MC scores of 85+ for their upcoming AAA games like Perfect Dark, Fable, Avowed, Perfect Dark, etc to change the tide. I think once they convince people they can get high scores for AAAs that are not named Gears, Forza, and Halo. Then they would be able to improve their market share.