The Wii has had a number of titles that haven’t necessarily had the best review scores around, but still ended up being a mainstream success. Aaron Greenberg, Chief of Staff for Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, thinks that many Kinect titles are on the same sort of path.
For us, these are different types of titles and experiences than maybe some of the games traditionally that are targeted to the core market, said Greenberg. So the correlation between a review score for Halo: Reach and sales is very high, but Kinect Sports is more about just having fun.
I don’t know how reviewers will grade those games because they’re so unique and so different to what the reviewers have played with controllers, he added. We’d love to see great reviews but I don’t think you’ll see the same type of correlation between reviews and actual sales of the game, would be my guess.
Source: Eurogamer
