phisheep on 28 June 2009
You make a good point - but I think you have given the wrong reasoning behind it.
The thing is, reviewers are not supposed to reflect the average gamer, they are meant to reflect their target audience - and their target audience is mostly people who read their publications which is mostly the harder-core gamers. We might wish it were otherwise, but it isn't.
That's why the discrepancy, and that's why metacritic doesn't accurately reflect the experiences of Wii gamers.
I bet you would get a different result if you took reviews only from mainstream press rather than from dedicated gaming sites and mags.
