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curl-6 on 01 June 2016
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midrange said:
curl-6 said:

Bayonetta 2 received better reviews than Black Ops 3, but Black Ops III sold more than 20 times as much.

Absolutely not a coincidence. ;)

Black ops 3 is also part of a decade old franchise that is known to many, had a huge budget, was not on 1 console only, and had a marketing team and budget that some people can only dream of having.

A better comparison would be Black ops 3 and GTA V. Guess which was higher rated and correspondingly sold more

Wait, you thought I was being dead serious in any of this? Conspiracy Keanu wasn't a giveaway?

Though if you really want to pursue the correlation between reviews and sales, only 2 of the top 10 selling PS4 games are in the 90s on Metacritic, while PS4's highest selling game is it's 121st highest rated.

Overwatch's triumph over Battleborn is more likely the result of far better marketing and more appealing characters, I reckon. Plus Blizzard being a bigger brand name than Gearbox.