| txrattlesnake said:
It doesn't have anything to do with their games as their games have received some of the best reviews of any publisher's on Wii. And that is just the thing, with the lack of the big third party games on Wii like GTA, etc, then the audience of 60 million Wii owners should be picking up the games from a publisher like Marvelous as they have had less competition against their games as on the Wii than PS2, for example, where their games would have been pitted against more established franchises in similar genres, thus cutting into their sales, but they haven't found better success with the relative lack of competition.
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You seem to think that review scores matter towards sales, which is not true...
According to metacritic the top 10 reviewed movies of 2009 were The Hurt Locker, 35 Shots of Rum, Still Walking, Goodbye Solo, Tulpan, Up, Gomorah, The Beaches of Agnes, Ponyo, and An Education; of those the only movie that made it into the top 50 highest grossing movies of 2009 according to Box Office Mojo was Up.
To make matters worse, movies like Transformers Revenge of the Fallen and Twilight: New Moon made more money than all those movies even though they were very poorly reviewed.
Regardless of format (books, movies, television, music and videogames) reviewers tend to favour qualities in a product that are not necessarily related to how a product will resonate with the consumer. With videogames, as the market expands beyond a vary narrow demographic and reviewers become more pretentious the more videogames that are "Low Quality" will lead sales in a given year.
