| mrstickball said: Shovelware is never, ever a bad thing. Developers that make it (D3 comes to mind) rarely can afford bigger-budget titles. Besides, every so often, you get some fantastic shovelware like Earth Defence Force 2017 on X360. Definately worth wading through the crap. IMO, with the dev costs being significantly lower than the X360/PS3, I would also agree that the Wii will get the most shovelware, since development times shouldn't take an incredibly long time to release alot of crap (Dancing with the Stars comes to mind). |
mrstickball, bdbdbd, and a couple of others I think, saw my point that I was trying to make. Namely, while it sounds real bad to get a lot of shovelware on your system, as long as it doesn't overwhelm so much that the system becomes know for it, it's a very good thing. More quirky variations, small developers can make money. But especially good moneywise for the company that makes the console, whether Sony with PS2 and its 1000+ more games than the XBox or GC, or now the Wii, which seems to be doing the same in terms of the number of games. (I do admit it is very early in this generation.)
While I did use VGChartz rankings for ease of putting it together, I do realize that the rankings are a bit manipulated. Especially after seeing that X360 Simpson's with 10 votes was the highest rated game at 10.0. Which is why for the high rank games, I went with 20+ votes. Somehow I don't feel that Resistance: Fall of Man, with 822 votes saying it is a better than average game, has had its ranking manipulated and in reality is one of the worse PS3 games.
In fact, which of the 13 games that I listed for PS3, does gamerankings or metacritic have listed as crappy/don't buy games? And the same is true for the X360 games that VG has as the highest ranking with 20+ votes, namely:
Elder Scroll Oblivion
Gears of War
Eternal Sonata
Guitar Hero 3
Bioshock
Mass Effect
Forza Motorsport
Beautiful Katamari
Need for Speed:ProStreet
Now Halo3 I mentioned because of its large number of sales.
Of course the opposite claim could be made. Namely that many of the Wii games are NOT shovelware, but should be ranked higher here to match the other site's rankings. But considering that Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal for the Wii with 3 votes is ranked 7.67, I sort of doubt this arguement.
Torturing the numbers. Hear them scream.
