Is Sony Placing Too Much Emphasis on Metacritic Scores?

Sony is apparently placing too much importance on Metacritic scores, according to the director of Days Gone.

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Review site Metacritic plans to solve its biggest problem

Ten Best PS4 Games of All Time (According to Metacritic)

Metacritic's Power Grows As Adds Metascore To Game Listings

Game On or Game Over: Ruining your Metacritic scores!

Gran Turismo 7 Now Has the Lowest Metacritic User Score (2.2) of Any Sony Game in History

Delivering a Top-Tier PC Port for Returnal

Do old games on Metacritic that have high ratings have that because they're genuinely that great or because they were great then? LoZ OOT is the highest rated game of all time

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