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fighter on 01 February 2011
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CGI-Quality said:
fighter said:

Absolutely none of you have been able to come up with a better indicator of quality than metas. And it seems you are not even trying. That alone makes my point.

Still, as I have faith in the human kind I'll still grant you a few other enlightments :

Publishers and the whole industry take them into account. They are proud of having high scores and disappointed when not, but not only for the effect it will have on sales, also for the pure win.

Metas being an aggregation of reviews, the pressure of Publishers PRs on journalists is disminished. The smarter people will have noticed that early reviews are higher than the ones later. That's because the exclusivity of an early copy or of an early deenbargo onthe publication of the review comes at the price, more or less implicit, that the review must be favorable ('if you believe that the game deserves an 8.7 we would be glad to let you publish this week intead of the next" is a common tactic")

Last but not least, these metas are simply the most efficient indicator possible. Professionals and not amateurs. Non-selling entities instead of publishers' PR (god knows how fans of a game can buy everything a company says for years and then claim reviewers are the mistaken ones) XD

Anyway, thanks for confirming my point

 

http://gametheoryonline.com/2010/07/07/why-metacritic-matters/

GT5 is the highest selling PS3 exclusive based on two clear reasons, it has the largest following of any Sony franchise and it satisfied the fanbase. I'm not sure how you determine quality, but it comes off like you take the word of someone else over your own.

Let's speak hypothetically for a second - let's say quality is measured by Metacritic - when did it become the dictator of... A. what a game will do, B. what that said game's potency is in the market, and C. what it's relevance is to a brand? I ask because the basis of thread was actually quite simple, recognition and credit for what most knew would happen - Gran Turismo 5 would be PS3's highest selling exclusive in no time flat. Why then do Meta scores matter?


Are you saying sales are a better indicator than Metas or do you just not have a proposition ? (lol)