IGN's Wii Game of the Year award goes to....a wiiware title.

[frybread]

ameratsu said:

frybread said:

de blob was pretty boring. Anyone check the Nintendo Channel stats on it recently? I kind of doubt the average play time would be that high.

By the way, Nintendo Channel is much more reliable than reviews.  Gamers > Critics.  I promise you WoG will never reach 1/2 the played time of Mario Kart, nor will it surpass the played time of Wii Fit.

 

Reliable at what? This shouldn't be a popularity contest, but ofcourse a 1st party game is going to achieve more total play time than a game you can't buy in a regular b&m store for now.

Reliable at letting us know if a game is worth buying.  And it uses averages, not totals, so it doesn't matter if a game is Mario or Travis Touchdown, they all get an even shot.

I'm having a tough time wraping my head around why this game winning goty from one particular media outlet is so bothersome.

Because it's from a site edited by a man who believes Wii Music, Wii Fit, and anything with "Wii" in the title is responsible for destroying a cutting edge art movement called video games.  Read IGN, then tell all your friends to buy Zack and Wiki in order to influence publishers, pretend MoH2 is a AAA quality FPS, and punish Nintendo because they've abandoned us.