Study: M rated games sell more

Mature ESRB - Image 1It’s official: a study conducted by the Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR) has proven that highly-rated games sell more than other games, despite naysayers.

The study is titled “Console Intelligence Brief 2007”, and deals with the relationship between gaming review scores and retail sales numbers. What EEDAR found out is that games which scored highly in gaming reviews were the titles that sold the most copies, with 2 percent of the top games earning gross sales as high as 531 percent more than the average.

Interestingly, mature-rated titles garnered the highest game review scores from MetaCritic and are the highest-selling games to date.

The source of data is nothing to be scoffed at: EEDAR got their numbers from 219 retail and 187 downloadable next-gen console games (taking their genre into account), their ESRB rating, gross sales, MetaCritic scores, and other features.

Other interesting tidbits reveal in the study are that fact that the Nintendo Wii released more than double the number of retail and downloadable games compared to the PS3 and Xbox 360, and that shooter games score the highest gross sales compared to other gaming categories.

Via Gamasutra

Mature ESRB - Image 1It’s official: a study conducted by the Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR) has proven that highly-rated games sell more than other games, despite naysayers.

The study is titled “Console Intelligence Brief 2007”, and deals with the relationship between gaming review scores and retail sales numbers. What EEDAR found out is that games which scored highly in gaming reviews were the titles that sold the most copies, with 2 percent of the top games earning gross sales as high as 531 percent more than the average.

Interestingly, mature-rated titles garnered the highest game review scores from MetaCritic and are the highest-selling games to date.

The source of data is nothing to be scoffed at: EEDAR got their numbers from 219 retail and 187 downloadable next-gen console games (taking their genre into account), their ESRB rating, gross sales, MetaCritic scores, and other features.

Other interesting tidbits reveal in the study are that fact that the Nintendo Wii released more than double the number of retail and downloadable games compared to the PS3 and Xbox 360, and that shooter games score the highest gross sales compared to other gaming categories.

Via Gamasutra

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