Down with numbers
Remember whenFallout: New Vegasdevelopers missed out on a Metacritic hinged upon bonusby one point? Well, here’s another way Metacritic could doom (or help) developers. Retail giant Amazon has embedded Metacritic scores (and user scores) on games’ pages, presumably because it doesn’t trust its own terrible user reviews. The latter still get top billing but don’t pop out as much as these newly present, colorful boxed numbers.
It’s not on every product listing yet.Darksiders IIironically does not have one. Nor doesFinal Fantasy XIII-2. But games as old asBushido Bladedo. Currently, this is only for games, though Metacritic also aggregates scores for film and music.
Amazon gives in hard to Metacritic[Amazon Forum]
