Total months in development (horizontal axis) vs game outcome score (vertical). (ndark.wordpress.com)
I do believe they have desired outcomes and do attempt to influence game outcomes. (sbnation.com)
If we accept that the crunch - free predictive model is a good predictor of game outcomes (and the extremely high correlation and tiny p - value suggest that it is), then the «crunch salvage hypothesis» tells us that we should expect that it should improve the outcomes of game projects where it is used at least to some tiny, observable extent... and the more it is used, the more it should improve game project outcomes. (ndark.wordpress.com)