richardhutnik on 10 June 2009
What matters in the industry is sales, period. Quality is one of multiple factors that go into sales, and quality from the perspective of the consumer above everything else. Metacritic was new at a time, and help provide a beanchmark, but that benchmark is only as good as what it is measuring. For hardcore games, I can see it being a better benchmark, because hardcore gamers are those who do the reviews.
