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[QUOTE="SpinoRaptor24"]
No it doesn't.
It just determines how popular a game is.
NielsNL
Actually yes it does, well most of the time. Sales are BEST way to determine a good game as consumers determine what is good buy buying product hence your neo classical economic way says if good games sell well they are good, millions of consumers dont consistenly buy bad games, if a game on GS gets a 5 but it sells 10 million copies its smart and logical to say gamespot is wrong and that infact since the game has continued to sell is it a good game.However most people finish on that point where actually theres exists inperfect information at nearly all levels meaning that the consumer doesnt know which games are best, the degree to which you think there is imperfect information will determine how long you think bad games will sell untill every starts to stay clear. The idea workjs mostly for good games that dont sell well, but here in SW people seem to think that if GS score something a 9 then it universally is a good game not taking to account that it only caters fors its own audience and that most likely a very high majority of people (mostly non gamers/casuals) would think otherwise i,e. reinfiorcing that good games sell.
Sorry for long text (plus its economic focus) but id like to see someone tackle what i said.
I disagree. Infamous and Prototype launched approximately at the same time, but for the PS3 Prototype outsold Infamous, even though accross the web the latter was getting better reviews. The difference: when Prototype launched there were lots of commercials on tv for Prototype. This is a very important factor for commercial success. If you don't consider this you're oversimplifying things.
However your making the assumption that Infamous is better than Prototype which according to reviewers mostly across the board is correct, but your also making the very big mistake of assumption that every PS3 owner would think Infamous was better than prototype which is totally untrue, im not sure about the sales but if Prototype has sold 50k more then its likely that that marketing has pushed it, only with large difference in sales could you say one game was better than another.As for marketing, that plays into the perfect information, marketing cant push an appalling game to 10 million copies because eventually word gets out. As i said above you couldnt say Prototype was better just because it sold a mere 100k more but if it goes onto sell 5 million more then the market (which is the best way of showing what the consumer wants and thinks is good) says its better whether or not it was marketed better.
I wont lie and say im not over simplifying things because i guess only something verging on the length of a thesis could really unravel things, there will be factors such as time (as mentioned above) that will be a determinant but what i have wrote above is an insight into how the market decides good and bad games.
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