The PlayStation 3 is the festive season's top platform by game review scores, that's the word in from Metacritic, who this week deliver their first Platform Power Rankings.

The average score of 2009 was '72', with only 7 percent of games garnering a bad score.

Five PS3 titles count among the top ten best of the year, the format beating back from the PC, and 360.

The average score is '70', which actually put the console behind the - while the was fourth, followed by the and Wii both of which suffer in comparison.

By Luke Guttridge