What's With Wii's Low Review Scores?

[Edouble24]

Bodhesatva said:

Edouble24 said:
I don't think Wii has many games worthy of good scores, and apparently a lot of reviewers agree. The console just isn't made for the type of games many people like, namely more hardcore gamers, who are the people reviewing games.

This statement is pretty much the entire argument the original post made. Reviews aren't just for hardcore gamers, unless games criticism is intending to be a niche. It is quite apparent that a huge mass of people don't agree with what you happen to like, and are buying the Mario Parties and Wii Sports and Wii Fits and not 360 or PS3 games. These people are clearly the fastest growing demographic in gaming, and their wants and desires are effectively being ignored by games criticism.

A review of Rambo by people who love violent, testosterone driven movies: A+++! Brokeback Mountain: F-----!

The same can be said about any medium. Look at hollywood, where movies like Date Movie and other ridiculous nonsese make millions and millions of dollars yet are complete crap according to reviewers(as well as myself).

Casuals don't pay much attention to reviews, they don't really matter much at all in the movie industry and that's what's going to happen in the game industry. I honestly think that's a great direction for things to go in.