News > Good Games Outsell Bad Ones?
September 11, 2007
A new interactive research firm, Electronic Entertainment Design and Research, has released data from a new study that reveals a shocking truth: good games sell better than bad games.
To be more precise, the study's data shows that games receiving a Metacritic score higher than 90% sold 531% more than the industry average, despite making up a depressingly small 2% of all titles released.
The research did yield a few other interesting tidbits, such as the fact that M-rated games have the highest average Metacritic scores and the highest average gross sales in the U.S. Nearly a quarter of games fall into the vague "action" genre, but the shooter genre sees the highest gross sales.
More than twice the number of games, both retail and downloadable, were released for the Wii than for either the PS3 or the 360 during the first seven months of each platform's launch. Interestingly, most of those Wii games--98%--had no online functionality at all.
The study, called Console Intelligence Brief, examines the Wii, PS3, and 360 from the time of each console's release through June 1 of this year.
