Do User and Critic Ratings Affect Sales?

Source: Kaggle: Video Game Sales with Ratings

Bubbleplot - Ratings/Sales

Because this dataset also contained user and critic ratings, I thought it would be interesting to see how those ratings differed and if they affected sales at all. You can see a game's sales plotted along the y-axis, with its critic rating along the x-axis. In addition, each bubble is sized by how many users rated the game and colored by user rating.

Both critic and user ratings seem to be associated with higher game sales. Although critic and user ratings see, pretty similar for the most part, there is also clearly a handful of games in which critics and users disagree. There are many games in which user ratings were lower while critics the same game fairly high.