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el 01-Feb-2009 |  Sega Europe boss Mike Hayes says Metacritic scores are indicative of certain games' success, and while score targets aren't written into every developer contract, Metacritic does have value ? especially in judging expensive projects.
"We're a creative business, and how do you put objectivity into it? But at the end of the day publishers will always want to do that, particularly if you're spending $20 million ? you have to try and find that objectivity, and it's going to come from how much it costs, when it's coming out, and how good the game is," Hayes told GamesIndustry.biz. Further, "If you're going for a high-end PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 game and you want to break out in the genre, or something like that, you have to target that quality - because otherwise you don't have a hope in hell," Hayes said. "There's too much evidence that shows games which score below a certain level in certain genres are not going to cut through." Hayes said that "we won't say to every developer we work with that there's a target in there." Which sounds like, for some developers, there is. And the size of the deal seems to be a factor in how much a Metacritic score means to the project. "Where we're spending a lot of money, and the score is essential to the success of the product, absolutely I think there's a value in it," Hayes said, adding "I don't think it's unreasonable for publishers spending that much money to have certain expectations of quality levels. But to demand it on absolutely everything wouldn't be right at all." Metacritic Helps Business Objectivity says Hayes [GamesIndustry.Biz via play.tm]
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| Metacritic's Best And Worst of 2008 [Metacritic] | | Metacritic put together a list of the best and worst games of 2008 on every console. The top reviewed aren't that surprising, but there are some real doozies in the duds. The list was created by looking at average review scores and includes a couple Grand Theft Auto IV mentions, Super [..] Read complete article | | Published 02-Jan-2009 by Brian Crecente in metacritic Best and worst of 2008 Reviews
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We've heard stories of PR reps and devs obsessing over Metacritic scores, but EA Sports' Peter Moore's not sweating them, at least when it comes to Wii games. Noting that some titles in the low 70s can still move millions upon millions of un [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Jun-2009 by Justin McElroy in amazoneaea-sportsea-sports-activemetacriticpeter-moore
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| More On "Faking Quality" And Metacritic [Quality Control] | | Whenever we hear about the travails of a video game company, snark abounds, and ultimately, the chorus cries, "Why don't you just make some games that don't suck?"
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