Which of Nintendo's Nov-Dec games will sell the most?

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mZuzek said:

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No, the game scored high because out of over 8 billion people on Earth, the mere 84 who are counted on Metacritic thought it was good. Reviews are not an objective measure of quality, they are the opinions of a tiny, tiny group of people.

And the number of gamers who'd pass on a game cos of an 81 metacritic is a similarly tiny, tiny group.

If it means anything, there's this site I like called Backloggd, where people go and give their own ratings and reviews to games. On there, 40 thousand people have given their ratings on Clair Obscur, and the average rating is 4.65/5, which is the highest of any game ever (not including DLCs or "GotY editions").

It's still a tiny group, a fraction of the people who even played the game to begin with, but it's a much bigger sample size and yeah, the praise is high. I think it's clear that Clair Obscur's massive success is a result of very positive word-of-mouth, though I'm not sure how big a part the actual critics play in that.

Either way, I don't expect Prime 4 to have bad sales because of the reviews, though I do expect it to sell at most as much as Dread sold. And I know we expect better from Metroid, but saying 81 is a "bad" score is pretty ridiculous... and it doesn't ever matter. Seeing people deciding to pass on it because of the metacritic is silly, just play the game and form your own opinion. My favorite game of all time has an 80 on metacritic.

Oh my point was never that Clair Obscur isn't widely beloved, it clearly is, just that a Metacritic score doesn't determine that as the people giving their views there aren't even 0.01% of the people who played it.

But yeah I largely agree, the notion that a 81/100 on Meta is going to damage sales to a significant extent is silly, and I also expect similar sales to Dread.