Skorpion on 11 December 2009
| theprof00 said: yeah, but there are plenty of awesome games that get high reviews and no sales. It's not a completely congruent relationship. |
Yes this is true, the subject and content of the game generally influence sales more so than quality (particularly for the wii crowd), but reviews can raise or lower those sales. In other words LKS has done a lot better than it would have had it got 6's rather than the litany of praise. Akin to sales increases due to word of mouth.
On another note, I found this rather amusing on metacritic:
