Following outcry against similar results of a smaller study conducted last year, Susquehanna Financial Group's Video Game Journal once again took to the facts to try and find a correlation between game sales and the opinions of game reviewers.

And once again, with an even larger sample than originally taken, their data indicates that there is no reason to believe that anyone cares what reviewers think, after all.

...a theory (that game ratings matter) that fails under scrutiny is accepted as conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom is wrong. And we have not even addressed the causation argument - that a higher rating causes a game to sell better. There is no reason to argue causation, because while correlation does not equal causation, the absence of correlation means no causation in our case.

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Game Score-to-Sale Theory Again Disproven [Gamasutra]