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Squilliam on 24 January 2009
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windbane said:
Squilliam said:
Hmmm, I guess the best way to get a handle on how good the game is by comparing the sales of the closest rival which is Call of Duty 4 and if sales are lower but reviews are higher then one can call it a manipulated review process. If sales are higher but reviews are lower then the game was likely unfairly treated by critics. Because you see, theres a strong correlation between a high review and high sales between Metacritic and vgchartz.

I concede at this point that it is impossible to know for sure. But the standards for games have increased substantially this generation, what was once a shoe-in for a high score is now moving into also-ran territory.

 

Wow, you are the same guy that created a thread saying R1 was better than R2 and that the SALES proved it!

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=57620

Let me tell you again:  sales may coincide with reviews sometimes, but strong sales of a game do not guarantee quality!  Everyone (I thought) knows that.  There are hundreds of examples of games that are highly rated and don't sell well and games that are lowly rated and sell great.  Please understand this.

Also, your choice to crusade against KZ2 is indeed an odd decision considering reviews come out this early for games all the time.  I've already given you many reasons for the early reviews, and there is nothing strange about it.
  • Games are a mass market phenomenom.
  • This is a sales site.
  • The quality I was referring to was mass market appeal.
  • Killzone 2 is expensive, so therefore its targetting as wide an audience as possible.
  • Metacritic measures the wide appeal to a broad spectrum of reviewers its not a focused measurement.
  • There is an extremely strong link between sales and appeal and metacritic scores.
  • Therefore if sales are low then either A: The reviewers got it wrong. B. The game lacks appeal to a wide audience (See above) or C. A combination of the above. Furthermore we do have a benchmark in Call of Duty 4. 94% 4 Million sales on the PS3.

 



Tease.