As my title states are 9.9 and 10 grades even possible to obtain? In some of my submissions particularly my most recent submission I sent in 3 factory case fresh Switch games, basically perfect copies to test this. I hand picked the best possible copies of the bunch that I had, I hyper scrutinized these games very slowly and carefully under a white LED light to verify any possible micro flaw; there's no handling wear, scratches, imperfections to the seals, cover art, game cases, etc. By virtually anyone's account they would be perfect hence deserving of a 10, if not somehow a 9.9 grade easily.
So when I got the grades back on these games all 3 of them got a 9.8 A++. It seems like when you get an immaculate game no matter how nice you just default them to 9.8 A++ like it's some kind of standard instead of giving these games the true grades they deserve based on their actual condition.
My question is, how do you actually obtain a 9.9 or a 10 grade? There's clearly another metric you use to give these out because it doesn't seem to be based on the games true condition. I've sent CGC 200 games to grade in the last 3 months which you can verify so I know what I'm talking about. I've seen grading inconsistencies in basically every submission that I've sent CGC but the one thing that really boggles me is why you just never give out perfect grades to deserving games?
I want to note that I'm not being irrational, I'm not saying all my games deserve top grades but in this particular example, I firmly believe they did and there has been others in the past as well.
I feel like these grades aren't handed out for the sake of just not handing them out.
Some insight would be appreciated.
Thanks.
