New IPs can score high go ask Little Big Planet, Bioshock, and Gears of War. All New Ips that received Game of the Year awards when they were released.

As much as I hate, it's true.  I'm in the media and we all know it.

I've had some very heated discussions with friends of mine in the media industry because they rate Wii games low simply because the game's target audience is lower aged or the genre doesn't appeal to them.   Some of them are told to do this by their EIC's.

I just talked with a publisher the other day about this and it pisses off their development teams because a lot of bonuses are paid based on Metacritic and GameRankings scores.

Klonoa

Of course it won't get it since it doesn't have the hype, but it definitely should.

You have got to be kidding. Please tell me you are kidding.

Please?

A New "Classic" Donkey Kong Country with Awesome Music please!

Punch-Out

I don't expect many Wii games to score in the 90s.

So far, there are only 3 games that are exclusive to the Wii that have scored 90 or more: Brawl, Galaxy, and MP3. Twlight was a GC port, Ocami and RE4 were PS2 ports (after RE4 was GC port but they also included added PS2 content), World of Goo is on PC, and Rock Band 2 is multiplat.

To me, that is stunning considering the Wii is nearly at 50% market share.

The PS2 has almost had as many exclusives over 90% in that time: GoW2 and Persona 4. Hell, FF12 came out a month before the Wii, so it's almost tied. Stunning.

So now it's a well-known fact there's gonna be a new Zelda coming out in 2010 then? Great, could someone tell me the exact date and title as well?

Geez..

LAIR says hi, benga =)

yeah, you can't rule out review scores when you want to use the term "AAA."  I think the term AAA is as cliche as using "____says hi" though.