The problem is that old system which is now defunct perpetuates a game as being in a state of failure or raging success if it does/doesn't reach its hype, it makes for meaningless arguments and debates around this place for the lesser of the community and causes nothing but problems, it fuels fanboy vitriol.

A place such as this can exist without all of the nonsense and it should, this place being System Wars doesn't mean it needs to be some devolved cancer. Take the recently scored Halo Wars 2, its score a 6 here which is 2.1 or 21 points below where it sits aggregated, that's a huge disparity, and as a result people are arguing that it's trash and only latching onto that 6. Look at The Last of Us, look at what that did to that game around here because it got an 8, look at The Last Guardian, and how that's working in reverse because it got a 9 here but only sits at an 82 aggregated, it's a nonsensical system.

I say just toss it out, and it appears that it kind of has been, but not really.

You're a little off the map in terms of what's going on here, just a wee bit... He's probably going around trying to build relationships, give developers/publishers reasons to work with them. The biggest issue Xbox has with the Japanese market is not the Japanese game market itself, it's the lack of continued Japanese support on the platform. If Xbox had a continued stream of Japanese games similar to PlayStation it would become normalized and the games would sell. The reason Japanese games don't do that well on Xbox is because they are so sparsely released that people which are a fan of these games do not buy the platform as it's not currently viable for it, PlayStation is much more viable.

If he can get a bevy of releases in the works and keeps focusing on it, he could greatly open the scope of the system to other demographics.

Of course it will.

But the same logic should apply to whether a game "flops" or not, there's only one meaningful rating metric for anything and it's an aggregate.

The viewpoint of a single individual should never be the standardization for anything.

So there's absolutely no standardization which means that none of this amount to anything regardless, just throw it out or go off of an aggregate. It's pointless to use a singular metric of weighing something as no person would actually do that for any decision they make.

If you use an aggregated score it allows more freedom of choice in hyping something and gives a better idea of where something actually stands from a broad view of difference subjective viewpoints.

I wouldn't buy a game off of what you say alone as I would hope the same would apply to me as well, so using any single opinion to determine the worth or standing of a game is nonsense.

@misterpmedia: MULTIPLE DEADLINES.

Plus it's been years. So. Sounds a lot like Kamiyas fault.

So from my understanding there is no real metagame anymore, and people can leverage whatever metric they want, correct? (stupid if you ask me)

So the game reached its 9/10 hype for this singular website, but the alternative metric of Metacritic which is the general consensus of compiled reviews, the game is a flop as it's sitting below a 90/100.

I think we need to clarify the flop/hype rules. The way I did it this time around was giving my GS score and MC score. I think if we're going to use both, hype threads should as for both. For example, for me 88 is not a flop since I called 75 on MC. But if the average was 90 then it would have been a flop.