Dead Space Extraction vs. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles

[Soma]

bmmb1 said:

Soma said:
hmmm, I'm sure IGN do inflate and deflate scores, but not for the same reasons. They do it to somewhat "manipulate" sales. For example, Wii Music, he thought it was going to sell millions and probably gave it a lower score than it deserved. He was actually happy the game didn't sold as much (and thought it was in part thanks to him)

On the other hand, games like Madworld, The Conduit and others, were pushed hard by them. According to most gamers they received a better score than deserved. All with the intention so they could sell better and more games like those were made for the Wii (and less shovelware).

Actually they implied that in some podcast.

If IGN admitted to doing that, why wouldn't reviewers who have never bothered to hide their hate of the Wii do the same with the purpose of hurting 3rd party efforts/motivation on the Wii? This just reinforces my theory...

 

But we're disgressing from the thread topic...

 

Yeah, they implied that. But to support "hardcore" games and hurt "casual" games. Not with the idea for saying later "Look! Hardcore games with awesome scores don't sell on the Wii!!!"

Other sites may be doing that, though.