I'm not sure what you guys are talking about. When you see a review on a game page that review is for that game on that platform unless the reviewer specified the wrong platform. Scores are only aggregated in the review pods, i.e. "You rated this 9"

^^^ that

The only way I can think of that this might have happened is if they not only aggregated the user reviews across all three versions, but they also messed around with how much they weighed more recent reviews. So, for example, the X360, PC, and PS3 may have had a 9.3, 9.2, and 9.1 user average before, but if you were to aggregate them, you wind up with 9.2 (which would happen if a roughly equal number of users rated each version). Except that now, Gamespot weighs more heavily recent reviews - so if 100 people in the last month rated the game an 8, and new reviews are weighted even more heavily now than before the site redesign, that could easily bring the whole average down to 9.0.

# This might be somewhat unrelated, but has anyone else noticed and been really bothered by the fact that they've changed the user review averages to aggregate scores across multiple versions? So, for example, if 500 people give a PS3 game a 9.2, and 500 people give the PSP version of the same game a 7.2, all you can see under the user reviews is 1000 people giving the game an 8.2 review.

This really sucks for deciding which older games to play, as there's often no Gamespot review. If I see a game that came out on XBOX, DC, and PC and gets an 8.1 user review average, there's no way to tell if that's really the average across all versions of the game or if the XBOX version was rated a 9 on average, but the crappy ports brought the average score down.

I just don't understand why Gamespot did this. It really renders User Reviews pretty meaningless for any multi-platform game.