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The horrible truth of Metacritic scores and sales
The following commentary come from EEDAR's Geoffrey Zatkin...
- titles rated below 80 sell poorly
- average review score is around the 68-71 out of 100 range
- these games rarely sell over 100,000 copies.
- using the 3-month average sales of titles in 2011, games in the 70-79 range sold only 62,000 units
- 60-69 range sold roughly 57,000 units
- 1,024 games were rated at 50 or below last year
- these titles average 30,000 units in 3-month sales
- 216 games rated at 90 or above in 2011
- these titles saw average sales of 700,000 units
- 80-89 rated games saw a 3-month average drops to 236,000 units
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- titles rated below 80 sell poorly
- average review score is around the 68-71 out of 100 range
- these games rarely sell over 100,000 copies.
- using the 3-month average sales of titles in 2011, games in the 70-79 range sold only 62,000 units
- 60-69 range sold roughly 57,000 units
- 1,024 games were rated at 50 or below last year
- these titles average 30,000 units in 3-month sales
- 216 games rated at 90 or above in 2011
- these titles saw average sales of 700,000 units
- 80-89 rated games saw a 3-month average drops to 236,000 units
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