hotrodx on 11 December 2008
I think the issue here is that the "uninformed" or "casual" players might not be able to pick up really good Wii games, because crappy shovelware would get their attention first.
I don't think most of these people even read game reviews, or buy their games online. So how stores will arrange the presentation of their goods *might* affect the order of priority of which games are bought first.
On the issue whether the PS2 had shovelware, yes it did. But it was mostly later of it's life, when the PS2 was already targeting the "casuals".
The Wii, on the other hand, targeted the casuals first, hence so many shovelware on just its second holiday season. It's the side effect of the (inverted?) pyramid strategy.
