| ryu1976 said: I agree with part of what you're saying, but you miss my point. I played Boom Blox with family and friends last evening. It's a great Wii game, and a good example at aiming at the casual audience. But, weeks back I played something called, perhaps, 'Summer Games' at my in-laws. The second title is aimed at a broader audience, and that is where its Wii merits end. Unfortunately, it is not alone. And, the number of these inferior titles are increasing on the system. The danger I see is a historical one, as I stated, from the eighties. Like the Wii today, the Atari 2600 and its games sold in great numbers. Somewhere in its life-cycle developers misused the public's trust in what an Atari game was. Shovelware was published left and right, eventually eroding consumer trust, and among other forces bringing the console to an ugly end. Claiming that 'because a game sells well it is good' simply is not adequate. And, unwillingness to fairly critique a title because it is 'casual' will be bad for all gamers in the long-term. My point is that we need high quality games no matter what the console or audience. Sub-standard software in the name of casualness (and publisher greed) will damage gaming.
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But unwillingness to critique a game for what is is jsut as bad. If I were to review MGS4 as a Final Fantasy game it would get low ranks because that is not the type of game it is. Yet this is what is happening to casual games.
Shovelware happens on the leading platform pile and piles of shovelware. In the 80s you had the issue of no regulation no approval to publish on the platform. 80% of the games released were the same game somethign that is starting to happen on the HD consoles. The descriptions onthe back of the box had nothing to do with the game formany of them and the titles of the games were so similiar that people intending to buy one game would in fact be buying a crappy rip off game for the same price.
The console market literially was flooded with different consoles and clones of those consoles. The PC market was booming and providing competition. In fact todays HD consoles are chasing PCs again. I do believe that the industry was headed for another crash and it is was not because of the Wii. What you are describing was said about the PS1 way back when and look what happened.
