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Torillian on 19 February 2015
Mr Khan said:
Torillian said:
Mr Khan said:
It's amusing that as soon as Nintendo is doing poorly, metacritic doesn't matter and sales are all that matters.


It's amusing that as soon as Nintendo is doing poorly, sales  don't matter and reviews are all that matters.

Touche, at least some segment of the Nintendo fandom is responsible there. Although first party software is doing well sales-wise, given the terrible hardware sales on the Wii U side and the niche status of some of these titles.


Sorry man, I just can't stand the sentiment of the original quoted post.  Any statement like that without acknowledging that all fanbases are hypocritical when you deal with them as a group looks like lop sided console wars banter which is not something I'm into.  



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HollyGamer on 19 February 2015

NVM



noname2200 on 19 February 2015

It's because they can't widely cite to sales figures this generation, so they need something to make them look good.

The fact that that "something" is metacritic speaks volumes. -_-



vivster on 19 February 2015
Samus Aran said:
vivster said:
The problem is not the critic scores but the user scores they are using. Which are only higher than other AAA releases because of specific circumstances. You can be proud that critics like your games but just having less haters on the internet is no achievement of their own.

And you did statistical research to come to this conclusion?

Yes. Everyone giving a game a 0 is a hater, some try to disguise it by giving it 1-3 but they don't fool anyone. Now compare the amount of 0 scores on Nintendo games and other games.

I can also give you the reason why there aren't as many haters for Nintendo games. Nintendo caters exclusively to people who already like Nintendo or people who don't care enough for the internet or reviews or aren't even old enough to use the internet. Hence they are a lot less popular to the general internet audienc. Hence, less people actually care about writing negative reviews.

Look at the PC/Xbox/PS crowd and you see that they are generally more prone to complaining in part because of different standards they set for their games. Also because that demographic is the most prominent on the internet(males aged 20-30). They have a lot of time on their hand and a lot of issues which leads to proportionally more people taking effort in hating on games. Hence more haters.

I don't think it's the publisher's fault that the demographic that they're targeting is filled with haters. And neither it's an accomplishment of Nintendo to target a different audience.



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o_O.Q on 19 February 2015

there's nothing wrong with it i'm just hoping that there isn't a reversal of this emphasis on metacritic scores 2 or so years down the road as is the case now when compared to 2 or so years in the past in the last generation



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novasonic on 19 February 2015

There's nothing wrong with it. My tinfoil pirate hat protects me from the anti-Nintendo conspiracy.




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AZWification on 19 February 2015
onionberry said:
I think that both have some valid opinions, but kotaku is a little childish expressing their opinion.

That's a bit of an understatement!



                
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outlawauron on 19 February 2015
MohammadBadir said:
They're not in the wrong. People just love to hate, especially when it comes to Nintendo.

That's it proxy. Hit the nail on the head.



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sundin13 on 19 February 2015

For explaining the quality of your games to a bunch of suits, I think Metacritic does a pretty decent job, and Iwata even mentions how the system is flawed.

Seems like much ado about nothing...



Samus Aran on 19 February 2015
vivster said:

Yes. Everyone giving a game a 0 is a hater, some try to disguise it by giving it 1-3 but they don't fool anyone. Now compare the amount of 0 scores on Nintendo games and other games.

I can also give you the reason why there aren't as many haters for Nintendo games. Nintendo caters exclusively to people who already like Nintendo or people who don't care enough for the internet or reviews or aren't even old enough to use the internet. Hence they are a lot less popular to the general internet audienc. Hence, less people actually care about writing negative reviews.

Look at the PC/Xbox/PS crowd and you see that they are generally more prone to complaining in part because of different standards they set for their games. Also because that demographic is the most prominent on the internet(males aged 20-30). They have a lot of time on their hand and a lot of issues which leads to proportionally more people taking effort in hating on games. Hence more haters.

I don't think it's the publisher's fault that the demographic that they're targeting is filled with haters. And neither it's an accomplishment of Nintendo to target a different audience.

I give zero to games, not because I'm a hater. If I disagree with the  average score of a game and I want to see it lower I'll give it a zero to influence the score the most. Doesn't mean I think the game is worth a zero. Same goes with handing out 10s.

And do you know the average age of Nintendo's demographic? No you don't.