But, rather than bombard you with talk of operating profit, the Quality Index quarterly round-up ranks the top 20 best-reviewed iPhone games released during the period January 1st - March 31st, 2011.
Simple as that.
As for the reviews themselves, Qualityindex.com boasts over 55,000 of them from the world's leading online sources, including 148Apps, Slide to Play, Pocket Gamer, and IGN.
Day of the Dead
The top-ranked iPhone game this quarter was the third-person survival shooter Dead Space, whose original story, bespoke controls, and hauntingly atmospheric presentation combined to devastating effect for a 9.0 rating.
Impressively, EA also managed to snag third place with NBA Jam, the Bight Games-developed reimagining of its classic console basketball title.
Meanwhile, at the other scale of game development, Andreas Illiger's infuriatingly addictive Tiny Wings fluttered into the hearts and minds of the collective iPhone community, splitting EA's duo and gaining the #2 position.
It's worth noting, too, that of all the top ten games in Q1, the 8.8 scoring Tiny Wings was by some considerable distance the most commercially successful, having remained a fixture in the UK App Store chart since shortly after release.
Proof that popular appeal can, in fact, go hand-in-hand with critical adulation.
iPhone Quality Index's Top 20 games of Q1 2011
Methodology #1
To qualify for a Quality Index rating, a game must have received three or more reviews from the 60+ sites that feed into Qi's database.
Methodology #2
In the event of a 'tie', titles are separated in the first instance by number of reviews - the higher the total, the better.
Should the number of reviews also be identical, the Quality Index rating comes back into play, for while we only display the average score to one decimal place, the list is generated to further significant figures.
You can always keep up to date with the hottest-reviewed iPhone games at the Quality Index.
