Sea of Thieves is Microsoft's fastest selling first party new IP of this generation.

[VGPolyglot]

thismeintiel said:

VGPolyglot said:

I don't think reviewers ever used that scale, I don't even know if the claim that the 7th gen was more lenient than previous gens is even has that much merit.

Of course it holds merit. They were handing out 8s and 9s like candy, including bug ridden messes. It's also why you see gamers this gen, freaking out about their favorite game getting a 7, even though that's not a bad score.

Games are far more nuanced for there to be only 2 good scores to get, a 9 and a 10, with 8 being above average. That leaves the vast majority of the scale equaling shit to be avoided. But, there are just as many varying levels to good games as there are for bad ones, which is why good reviewers use the whole scale. . 

But do you have something like an actual graph that shows the average score per-year throughout the site's history?