| Torillian said: possible that one or two people do that? sure. But it's amazingly unlikely that all reviewers are doing that. I'll tell you right now that isn't how I reviewed the game. Why is it people ignore that Wii games can get great reviews? People love to talk about how SMG is the highest reviewed game of the generation, but apparently reviewers don't like anything on the Wii. |
I'd argue that review is the perfect example of the Wii getting the short end of the stick for simply being the Wii. You docked points for graphics, and yet you didn't name one game that looked better. The last time I mentioned this you gave a generic "any 1st party game looks better" but that is no where close to true. The only explanation I ever came up with is you held the system to the graphical standards of the PS360, and thats not a valid comparison.
It really isn't that reviewers hate the Wii for the most part. There are exceptions like the Game Informer(?) review of The Conduit that is filled with blatant lies. For the most part though it is simply that reviewers are not taking the system on its own terms, nor are they trying to understand which audience a game is targeted at. When a reviewer gives a game a 2 out of 10, and it goes on to be a multi-million seller then the reviewer fucked up plain and simple.
Now I am not trying to argue sales are an absolute indicator of quality. People won't keep buying shitty games though. People buy games for a reason, and that reason is they are fun. A games primary purpose is expected to be fun, although there are other considerations that are not relevant to my point here. Games that have next to no advertising, no name brand recognition, and no good press are going on to sell 3 million or more copies. The only possible explanation is word of mouth. Friends get friends to buy it, which means many of the owners are loving their time with the game.
Ultimately what it has come down to is reviewers are not representative of the market as a whole. They reflect the sensibilities of a significant portion, but not all of it. Possibly not even the majority of it at this point. The PS360 is making a name for themselves in the part of the market that do match up with what your typical video game reviewer will value. The Wii has mostly made a name for itself in a different market. It is the party friendly, and more gender neutral section of the market. Reviewers are coming at the games from the 13-30 year old male perspective that is increasingly not a dominant sector of the market. They need to either adapt, or reviews will be meaningless for a very large number of games.
