Analyst claims review scores matter the least to gamers
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November 25th, 2009
Game review scores have always had a great impact on the sales of games — so it the common conception. However, according to analyst Doug Creutz, game ratings are the least important factor when gamers decide what game to buy. Creutz says,
“We believe that while Metacritic scores may be correlated to game quality and word of mouth, and thus somewhat predictive of title performance, they are unlikely in and of themselves to drive or undermine the success of a game.”
He cites the most important factors begin “genre”, as FPS players will unlikely buy an RPG, no matter how high review scores it gets. However, we still believe that game scores matter, if you’re into FPS, there’s no way you’re gonna pick something like Uwe Boll’s Tunnel Rats — our review gave it a 0/10. Yep, zero.
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