If a game has a huge marketing push, subtract some points. If its hardly marketed add some points. I suspect a significant reason for low Wii game scores is a lack of marketing, which makes the Wii games merely reflect a true indication of their quality, whereas the overflated HD games have a lot of marketing and that increases the shill factor.
See there have been a lot of complaints about MAG scores recently. Don't blame the reviewers, blame Sony for not marketing the game significantly and having the score be a truer reflection of the games quality. Don't worry, games like Mass Effect 2, Heavy Rain and God of War 3 will get/have had enough marketing dollars thrown at them to get a high score.
Im not saying that the games suck, im just saying that in a realistic world they would not have been given as high a rating. The movie industry doesn't do this because people don't look to metacritic for movie reviews nearly as much as game reviews and word of mouth/marketing directly to the public rules the day here.
Oh just so I don't appear biased, but given Microsofts intentions to heavily market Alan Wake, Crackdown 2 and co-market Splinter Cell: Conviction, they will all probably be 90+ games unless they have obvious and significant flaws. So between Microsoft and Sony, its not a race for 90+ games based on quality, its all about who can turn the review industry into bigger whores.
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