Yes, but i don't think most studios putting out a game every 2-3 years aren't averaging that high on metacritic.

Eh, I don't put that much stock in Metacritic personally. According to it, NSMBU is a better game than Tropical Freeze, which is just bullshit.

Mass Effect. 1 and 2 are great games. 3 is great except for the ending. Andromeda is just meh. Now they announced a new one just in order to sell the Mass Effect trilogy.

lol Mass Effect will continue. Sure, it will be exciting to see the CGI trailer of the game in 2024. Pathetic and such a shitty way to end The Game Awards.

Bethesda, Bioware, and Konami.

Bethesda lost all trust with Fallout 76. Most developers are allowed one bad game before consumers write them off so completely, but between how the studio overhyped and just how terrible it was, then their 'fixes' making it even worse, their fall from grace was as sudden as it was unexpected,

Bioware's troubles stem mostly from mismanagement by EA. It started with the controversies surrounding Dragon AGe 2 and Mass Effect 3, both of which are fine games in their own rights but the dumbing down of Dragon Age 2 and the terrible ending for Mass Effect 3 really hurt the company. Then Andromeda was a rushed buggy mess with a bad story and Anthem was plain bad.

Konami. If there's a company in the industry worse than EA, it's Konami. It may be that Kojima needed to be reined in, but there is no excuse for how they treated him, the way they seem to treat employees in general, the disregard they have shown for their franchises, ect. If they want to be a Pachinko company then just do that and stop pretending to be a video game developer.

Bioware, And it's not Even Close for me.

Mainstream WRPG's have gone down the toilet. 

Have no idea why OP doesn't have CDPR listed in first place as the biggest fall from grace.

I think we can safely say that CDPR is the winner.

It's a little too soon to say for sure, but they may be the all-time leader in this category soon.

Naughty Dog and Insomniac do imho. Even Guerilla is entering that pace as well.

I said most. There are hundreds of game developing studios (especially if you include developing groups within them that work on their own individual game). Sure there are outliers to that rule, but most aren't pumping out an 85+ metacritic AAA budget game every 2-3 years.

I do agree, reason why I gave some examples, because I know it isn't the most common thing (although Ubi have devs pushing reasonably good games on a 3 year cycle more or less). And Nintendo have great devs so it is entirely possible they could also be doing it (but I don't follow as close their release to list), and well there is a gap between releasing every 2-3 years to once per gen or once every 7 years.