AltarofKez said:
Curious what you would consider high profile. Is Star Fox Zero good enough? How about Metroid: Other M? New Super Mario Bros. 2? Tomodachi Life sold over five million, is that high profile? All of these titles got some bad reviews mixed in with good. People aren't afraid to give Nintendo bad scores, they just like some of Nintendo's high profile franchises, just like any high profile franchise has fans. Mario Kart 7 has an 85 on Metacritic, only a little higher than Call of Duty games like Black Ops III (81) and the supposedly maligned Infinite Warfare (78). For further comparison, Mario Kart Wii was an 82. You're attributing a bias toward Nintendo by essentially saying "As long as you discount the games that get bad reviews, Nintendo only gets good reviews!" |
Look at it like this: whatever direction a reviewer would get more heat from, expect scores in the opposite direction.
It is not benificial for reviewers to highly rate highly subjectively bad games like Other M and Amiibo Fesitval. It's in the reviewers best interest to ride the tide - rate it where it belongs, because to be adverse will cause backlash. On the flipside, high profile games - that's, games that don't have budgets the size of a toilet paper roll being relased on very dead consoles - are highly over blown as "system seller" material. Nothing could make the Wii U move, yet every game over 80 meta is dotted as a system seller.
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