Is the Wii a fad? By Don Reisinger of CNET

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Bodhesatva said:

soccerdrew17 said:
lets look at who has seen success on nintendo consoles. nintendo, ea, sega, and recently ubisoft. ea is special in all areas as their brand can sell games not to mention sims and sports games just plain sell. sega has been embraced by ninty fanboys as they have finally been able to play sega games. ubisoft sold to mostly people who felt like buying a game with their console at launch (other than zelda). this doesnt look good for ninty third party. it looks like their sole savior might be capcom who are making mh3 on wii (and the rest on ps3, 360).

good games have flopped on ninty system so dont even say its cause of sucky devs. and yes, i would buy a wii for only ninty games (well, a ninty game called ssbb)

Can you please tell me precisely which good games have flopped on the Wii? I can name some okay games that flopped, but genuinely good ones? I can think of precisely 0.

Yeah, I'm just wondering how you define flop. I mean, Metroid Prime 3 could be considered a flop, but it has sold very well.

Well, I'm too lazy to check, but here are some games I remember being good and flopped.

Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam

Madden NFL 07

Madden NFL 08

Elebits

SSX Blur

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

And a lot of these are launch titles, so it's a bit silly.

Now, none of them are really "flops", but take for example Madden, where both 07 and 08 sold less on a console with a far smaller userbase (the PS3).

I don't know if you'd consider these good, but they were definitely above average if memory serves.