Review Inflation

[Onyxmeth]

Lostplanet22 said:
Dropping a scoring system could also be very negative. A lot of gamers get interested in a game if they see that it is getting high scores.

Something we saw with the last Need for speed game. Saw a lot of comments (not especially on VGCHARTZ) that people were not interesting in the game because the one before Shift sucked but when Shift got some scores and quite high people got interested in it.

I don't think scoring has anything to do with it.

Here's the PS3 sales of Undercover and Shift. They're flat.

Here's the 360 sales of Undercover and Shift. Shift is trending a couple hundred thousand below Undercover in the same timeframe.

Here's the PSP sales of Undercover and Shift. Shift has only been released in America thus far, so I stuck with only that region for both games. Shift is trending WAY below Undercover.

The reviews are all heavily skewed in Shift's favor across all three platforms, by anywhere from 10-30 points difference. It has done nothing positive for sales thus far, and on 2/3 of the platforms, sales have dropped.