GameQuarry declares Ubisoft to be "least consistent" publisher

GameQuarry has published a list of the most and least consistent publishers according to review scores. Rockstar is at the top, Ubisoft at the bottom.

The research firm assigned points to each scoring bracket in the Metacritic system. Two points were awarded for games in the 90-100 bracket, 1 point for 80-89, zero for 70-79, -1 for 60-69 and -2 points for anything with a Metacritic average of 59 or below.

Rockstar received a total of 19 points from 23 titles and Ubisoft received the lowest, with -148 points from a total of 237 games.

"Using this method, publishers who may have created stellar titles, would also be penalized for each low scoring game and given no credit for average games," wrote the report's author.

Dave Perry wrote on his blog that this data may provide an interesting argument over the validity of using Metacritic data in the industry.

"This is based on Metacritic data, and let's just say many of my friends are having a VERY heavy discussion (right now), on the validity of the Metacritic data. (So this is incredibly timely and will add fuel to that fire for certain!)"

The report author did note that the data does not "reflect trends towards an increase or decrease in quality trends".

A consistent publisher may be may in fact be trending towards a decline in quality whereas a publisher on the Least Consistent List may "trend towards an increase in quality".

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