So, was Nintendo right?

[Boutros]

specialk said:

Boutros said:

Well aren't you proving the point that user scores are indeed meaningless? lol

The point is that people who post their review or score on something like Metacritic may and often have ulterior motives. The same is happening right now on Netflix. This speaks more of ulterior motives than anything else. The least controversial the material, the more accurate user scores will be that I'm sure we can agree on. But how can you tell something is controversial if all you look at is user scores?

Maybe the number itself. But you can usually tell something by looking at how it got there though.

If some piece of media averages 5/10 but the distribution of scores shows that half the people liked it and half the people hated it, that might be more worth checking out to me than something that averaged a 9/10.

But that's not what Metacritic does lol