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I mean...if you make quality games why not brag a bit?
Expected considering how great most of their games score.
edit: But it's sad that the greatest Wii U game stands at 83 only...
Iwata said:When a brand-new title is released, there are often misconceptions at the outset, so I would not take the Metacritic.com Metascores and User Scores as the absolute tell-all index, but I do want us to do our best to release such highly evaluated titles in succession
Kotaku really hates MetacriticNintendo really likes Metacritic
Kotaku really hates Metacritic
That writing. Is it Ashcraft?
On the positive side, we feel strongly that Nintendo games maintained a significant presence in the year-end sales season.
One notable thing is that big titles released during and after autumn both for Nintendo 3DS and for Wii U maintained healthy sales and produced significant results in the year-end. Another thing is that we have received high evaluations of the quality of these titles.
Foreign website Metacritic.com is well known for its Metascore system that shows the average score out of 100 from various game media and websites. In other words, the Metascore is an index that shows how professional reviewers evaluated these games. Metacritic.com also takes reviews from users and discloses the average figure as the User Score.
We must understand that even among game players, majority of consumers that visit Metacritic.com are considered avid game fans. However, if a game receives both a high Metascore and a high User Score, many consumers use this as a guide to judge the quality of the game.
Nintendo of America posted this picture on its official Facebook page at the end of last year.
It shows a list of packaged game titles that received a Metascore of 85 or more and a User Score of 8.5+ or more on Metacritic.com, which we can admit received high scores both from the professional reviewers and consumers.
For Nintendos current platforms, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, 19 titles met these criteria. In contrast, the current platforms of other companies, PS4,Xbox One and PS Vita, totaled eight titles.
When a brand-new title is released, there are often misconceptions at the outset, so I would not take the Metacritic.com Metascores and User Scores as the absolute tell-all index, but I do want us to do our best to release such highly evaluated titles in succession.
In fact, software available on our platforms continues to be reviewed highly even after the turn of the year. The two software titles which were released simultaneously with the New Nintendo 3DS hardware in the U.S. and Europe, "The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask 3D" and "Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate," received the very high Metascores of 90 and 86 and User Scores of 9.5 and 8.9, respectively. Compared to the Metascore of 79, which the prequel in the "Monster Hunter" series, "Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate," received, we can understand that this most recent iteration is very highly reviewed.
Kotaku really hates Metacritic
I have no issue with any of this. It is funny, however, how they use the user score to purposely cut off many dozen of their competitors' games when everyone knows user scores are a complete joke, propped up and brought down by fanboys.
Expected considering how great most of their games score.
edit: But it's sad that the greatest Wii U game stands at 83 only...
Have you seen some of the sites that get on Metacritic?
Wasn't this posted before?
Fucking Metacritic.
What Iwata should have done is read every Nintendo game review aloud and let the shareholders decide for themselves what the reviewers thought.
Yep averages are a bitch.The lack of third party support helped them out here.
Yes. Metacritic isn't perfect, but user scores are way off base. Look at the latest DmC or any game that has a controversy surrounding it.
Metacritic user averages are a bit more dubious, though Nintendo's scores there do I think reflect a relatively happy fanbase
Yes. Metacritic isn't perfect, but user scores are way off base. Look at the latest DmC or any game that has a controversy surrounding it.
The lack of third party support helped them out here.
*Sigh* Not everyone has to hate metacritic because you and the rest of Kotaku does Brian. Of course Nintendo likes it, almost all of their games review well both by users and other journalists and metacritic being used to see all of those scores in 1 place is an easy way for Iwata to justify what they do with their games, as well with how well they sell.
I get the idea of hating on metacritic when certain companies use it to base bonuses off of but seriously just because your site no longer lists a '1-10 score' for reviews doesn't mean the rest of the industry does. I don't think there is any real wrong way to score a game and while you might claim that you no longer 'score' your games and the rest of the industry should follow your example in the end... you are still scoring games, just not on the 1-10 scale. Make no mistake, every game you give a rating of a Yes or a No to is a score, it may not be the 1-10 scale like metacritic uses but you are still giving it a rating and personally while I don't see anything wrong with that I am baffled that this site constantly makes remarks about other outlets giving games a review 'score' when you are doing the exact same thing, just not on a scale that metacritic can use for its site.
I've seen members of you're staff praise Eurogamer for droping the 1-10 scale but in the end they've just replaced it with a 1-4 scale just like Kotaku as a 1-2 scale. In the end they are measurable in one way or another, trying to claim you are better then anyone else just because your scale is smaller just seems silly to me.
Honestly I just find the whole made up controversy about review scores to be quite stupid. Is it bull shit for companies to base bonuses off of a meta critic score? Yes absolutely, but in the end I don't think changing your scale and claiming superiority over anyone else is any less bull shit. If you truly wanted to get rid of 'scores' as you claim you could easily get rid of the yes/no scale that you use, but you won't do that because by and large most people do not read more then a paragraph or two of a written review and without that you likely wouldn't get half as many clicks on you're reviews that you currently do.
Please don't pretend like you are so much better then everyone else when you really aren't. There isn't anything wrong with giving a game a 1-2 score like Kotaku does nor is there anything wrong with giving a game a 1-100 score, or a 1-5 score. Everything in gaming is rated one way or another, hell despite dropping the 'score' as you claim you have you still constantly list top 'insert system here' games lists which in the end is ranking what games are better then others which in the end isn't that exactly what you claimed you wanted to get away from? Sure they are not exactly the same thing but I just find it oddly hypocritical that 'scores' are bad (despite you still giving a game a score in the end) but listing what games are the best on whatever platform or genre are not? You just did a top 10 best horror games saying those 10 games by that authors opinion are better then all of the others, if you don't like to see games ranked because of a score then why do you rank games at all?
I think I'm largely just ranting at this point for very little reason as I don't see Kotaku changing but its just things like this that make me roll my eyes at articles like this. If you don't stand for scores or games being ranked on metacritic then why do you yourselves rank them one way or another? I don't think there is anything wrong with ranking games or giving games a score (as long as it makes sense, the 7-10 scale that most sites use is another discussion entirely) but I'm confused why you think this is a problem yet you still end up ranking games anyway either via top lists or giving a game a yes/no rating.