Does a games box art really help its sales?

[bananaking21]

Barozi said:

bananaking21 said:

Barozi said:
Certainly. I bought an Xbox game because it had a cool boxart. Had no internet back then to check if its any good so I bought it.
The game was okay-ish but certainly not worth the full price. I've been searching that game lately on Metacritic and it turned out that it has a ~45 Metascore lol.

For adults who buy games for their children it's also very important as they don't generally drive to a store to buy a specific game. They just look what's there and maybe ask the guy behind the counter.

haha what was the game?

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox/black-stone-magic-steel

i was expecting much more from the box art  :|