Most consoles have a dirth of games early on, but in the future I think people will look back on the lineup and feel it was very good. Wii Sports is the game of the generation, Zelda was a perfect "hardcore" counterpart, WarioWare and Super Paper Mario were excellent iterations in their franchises, Metroid Prime 3 may become a landmark game, Wii Play and Mario Party 8 were panned but too popular not to mention, third party games like Rayman Raving Rabbids and Trauma Center were inventive and fun, and Super Mario Galaxy, which should be mind-blowing, marks the one year mark.
Those whiners on Kotaku will be long gone. They'll be like the folks who claimed GTA and Halo would never last. "Those violent games are shallow, and can never be as popular as Mario and Zelda and Donkey Kong, doncha know!" Where are they now?
Thanks for linking to those posts, JL. Little bits of sheer optimism among endless mindless bitching is always fun to read.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
