In an interview with JP Morgan, WWE’s Chief Financial Officer George Barrios stated he hopes WWE 2K14 has a high Metacritic score to improve sales for the game.
Here’s Barrios’ full statement on the matter:
“The things we liked about Take-Two were really three things. Number one, their focus on quality and it’s measurable. It’s the Metacritic score on games. They do very, very well. Our game had slipped into the high 70s as an analog. The NBA, which we view as — which we view as an analog has been in the 90s and that’s Take-Two’s games so. And that Metacritic score tends to historically track with game sales if you look at the overall industry.”
The interview itself was very long and Barrios talked about a lot of other things as well. Basically, he said that THQ’s recent WWE video games didn’t rate so well with critics so that impacted sales of the game. He’s hoping Take Two can improve the quality of WWE 2K14 so that increases sales for the game plus means more revenue for the company.
WWE 2K14 is released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on October 29th in North America and November 1st in Europe.