IGN best overall graphics award 2013

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bucky1965 said:

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bucky1965 said:

bananaking21 said:

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Calling it now. The next game by Naughty Dog will get perfect 10's across the board by IGN as well.

What would that prove? Naughty Dog's game tends to get 10's from dozens of sites, all it shows is how damn good their games are :P (The average meta from their last 10 games since 1998 is 88.7, so they have been rather consistent about the matter xD).

Awards are just someone else's personal opinion. Things can be over hyped. True measure of how good something is, doesn't come from an award. If it's so good how come 3/4 of all ps3 owners didn't buy it? 

There is no greater indication of somethings quality than the opinion of those who own it. ND's games aren't just praised by critics, but by the people who play them. Make a thread asking PS3 owners what they thought of TLOU and a staggering number of them will say they loved it.

As for the darkened part of your comment, that's just a silly question :P Quality doesn't directly equal sales. Metroid is adored both by critics and players, yet has never sold more than 3 million copies. Portal 2 was also adored by critics and players but barley sold 4 million physical copies across 3 platforms. On the the end of the scale Call of Duty Ghosts was disliked by many critics and players yet has already sold nearly 18 million copies.

Do you get my point? Sales are determined by much more than just quality. Adverting, brand recognition and accessibility are often more important than quality. Same reason shitty actions films like Transformers make so much money. They have multi million $ budgets and advertising campaigns and can be watched by any numnut.