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S.T.A.G.E. on 27 June 2012
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Mnementh said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Mnementh said:
 

I'm not sure about the consoles mentioned, but I'm pretty sure the percentage of shovelware on Wii is around the same as the percentage of shovelware on PS2.


I cannot take this seriously. PS2 development yielded many great PS2 games which harnessed the Dual Shock (Which really isnt a stretch when N64 analog changed the way we game on a gamerpad). The majority of third party titles on the Wii were commercial failures, to the point where people had to question whether devs were having a hard time with the tech or they just didn't care about anything but to make a quick buck. They treated the gimmick commercialization as a cheap whore essentially.

Until today, if I look for PS2-games I find a mass of crap, which contains some gems. It's easier to sort now, because the gems are better known at this point. Bu that doesn't change the fact, that there is a sea of shovelware for PS2.


Obviously the PS2 commercially had shovelware (which is why the two are always compared asking" which is worse?"), but again it also had double the amount of games the Wii had give or take. I am sure if you look the percentage of the whole library with low scores the Wii will have a larger pecentage of shovelware than the PS2. The PS2 was a casual and core success everyone loved it equally and people continued to buy PS2's even afters spotlight was yielded to the PS3. The Wii was majorly a casual success and thats a tough pill to swallow for a lot of Nintendo fans, but to argue that is hurting anyones argument. Third parties were not hailed by the core on the level of the PS2. It would hurt to list Wii's highest rated games above 70 and the and the vs the PS2's. Even quite a few multiplats scored lowest on the Wii because publishers took the plunge and bombed trying to harness capabilities  of the new controls.