Goichi “Suda51” Suda says game companies are too hung up on how their games perform on Metacritic.
Talking to our sister site, GamesIndustry.biz, Suda said that whilst he will check scores when a game releases – “Sometimes a media outlet has given us zero. That makes me feel shitty – why go that far and give us zero?” – but apart from that, he “tries to avoid Metacritic”.
“Everybody pays too much attention to and cares too much about Metacritic scores. It’s gotten to the point where there’s almost a set formula – if you want to get a high Metacritic score, this is how you make the game,” Suda said.
