Switch-The platform of ports and shovelware

[Asriel]

Flilix said:

Dante9 said:

Metacritic scores are not a realiable metric for exclusive games, they only work for multiplats. Think about it. Exclusivity means that you have to buy a certain platform to get access to those games. You buy a certain platform for a reason, because you know beforehand that you will get the titles that you enjoy. This means that the scores for exclusive games are given only by hardcore fans of those games. What is missing from those scores are all the people who didn't even buy the platform in question, because they were not interested in what it has to offer. How do you think they would score those games? Well, they won't score them at all because they weren't convinced to even buy the required hardware to play them. This means the scores for exclusive games come solely from fanboys, basically. This is especially true for reiterative franchises like Mario and Zelda. Totally new entries at least have to do something to earn their fandom, I'll give you that much.

User scores on Metacritic are never reliable, since you don't need to actually play the game in order to write a review. Breath of the Wild for instance, got numerous reviews on the day it launched, even by people who literally admitted they hadn't even played it.

My post was based on critic scores, not user scores.