Zekkyou on 11 September 2015
| Samus Aran said: How does such a niche game get 86 reviews on metacritic? That's more than Super Mario 3D World, Majora's Mask 3D and Mario Kart 8 lol. Something's wrong with today's gaming journalism. Or metacritic's criteria. |
Most of Sony, MS, and Nintendo's games tend to settle in the 70 - 100 review range, regardless to how popular the title itself is expected to be. Sites are obviously going to prioritize doing reviews they think people will read, and exclusives tend to do pretty well in that regard (particularly Sony and MS's). Even if interest is still overall significantly smaller than that of a major title, as long as you can pass the 'worth taking the time to review' line (which almost all exclusives do), you'll usually settle at a similar number of reviews to the major one.
Differences past that are usually down to general variance, and how many review codes were actually sent out.
