memory2zack on 04 June 2008
| Reasonable said: Anyone know whether good/bad reviews in Fam have affected sales of other games? |
I don´t think they do. If you look at Vagrant Story that got a perfect score, it was a flop sale-wise. How much they want to please their readers by giving some games better scores or how far publishers go in oredr fo famitsu to give some games better scores is unknown to me, however this is a common practice among western magazines as well. They all care about pleasing their readers and publishers. About famitsu´s Haze review, many non-english gaming magazines reviewed the game around 8/10 which is more or less the same score as Famitsu´s. Sites like gamerankings only track english reviewing sites/magazines, so they are far from reliable.
