He didn't mention any game that meets that description. Where did you get this idea from?

If I had a nickel for every time I read one of these hate Wii articles...I would have died of poisoning ages ago :D .

The sort of articles is pretty pointless. "Hardcore" gamers are very very likely aware of several factors such as that the Wii sells, the price of x360/PS3, which games they want and ebay's url.
They can make/have made their choice anytime. If a choice is necessary because buying a HD console doesn't by default mean you have to sell your wii.

I have enjoyed a pretty even number of games across the three consoles, on the Wii neither has been first party (don't even have Wii Sports since I got a Japanese Wii).

Microsoft has been known to do that?  You have ANY evidence to that?  Companies do use viral marketing agencies, like Microsoft and the Bees thing, and Sony with this "All I want for Christmas is a PSP" nonsense:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G0LlXv-nyI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwdhg_whoKw

But, as for hiring people to post on forums, go ahead and post any evidence that is true.  Sony has done enough to get people to post unfavorable opinions of it.   Considering how many people post on forums, trying to post negative opinions on forums is a waste of money.  

What does work virally is if some company does something that generates attention, and the community of people into the market pick it up and run with it.  The Bees thing worked like this.  If you come off pretending to be what you are not, then you get fragged and it doesn't work, as was seen with the PSP Xmas nonsense.

If a company wanted to actually sow illwill for their competitor, the best thing they can do is act like Crazzyman did on here, with him being outrageously pro-Sony.  Microsoft hiring someone like him or a Chad Warren MIGHT work.  Certainly Sony hiring them would be counterproductive.

Of course, if you have blogs like that of Major Nelson, CLEARLY labelled as a voice of a company, who outputs regularly, that can be effective for a company's marketing campaign.  Being close to the videogame community also helps, particularly like that.  But a company needs to be above board and with it.  Making fun of themselves as marketing weasels, for example, works.

I read that article earlier and thought it was pretty well written and fair enough, the Wii no longer suits him, so obviously selling it was the right choice

Wow, a double meltdown. Reminds of ol' Bruce a little.

Edit: I'm not being fair to Bruce. He didn't RANDOMLY start typing in CAPS.

How dare that guy like bacon! A disgrace to us bacon lovers!

I owned a NES, SNES, N64, Gameboy, Gameboy Color and shared a Gamecube with my cousin. I currently own a DS Lite.

Good, honest article. I enjoy casual games for their own merit, and I'm not abandoning ship, but there are too many shovelware titles to wade through currently. In a sense, the arguments that the big N has abandoned anyone but those who desire the most shallow of gaming experiences, seems plausible.

Let's hope for a diverse and serious effort in 2009.

I suppose articles like this will cease when reviewers like Ryan Rigney there are replaced by women who can do an unbiased reviews of the games that the MAJORITY of people are now playing instead of just the 'core' games.