Nintendo's down, but not out.

[DanneSandin]

Dodece said:

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You do realize of coarse that your lists amount to about two really good games per year. That qualifies as starvation. While the other platforms average six or more per year. That qualifies as being well fed.

A good number of titles on your list did not achieve a meta score of over ninety. Excite Truck, Super Paper Mario, both of the Kirby Games, one of the Metroids, Mario Kart, and none of the Donkey Kong games qualify as fantastic console exclusives. Ruminate on this for a moment. The Wii had all of fourteen games with a meta rating of ninety or higher. While the 360 had fifty, and the PS3 had forty five. There just isn't any comparison. The Wii was just plain bereft of really good games.

It isn't my imagination. It is yours for actually thinking the platform had a lot of fantastic first party titles. Which it plainly did not.

This is what I gather from your reasoning:

PS360 had a more consistent flow of good games.

A good game has to have a score of 90 or more on metacritic.

You are saying that Wii didn't have a lot of fantastic first party titles, which kind of sums up the other two points you made before; PS360 had more consistent flow of good (1st party) games than Wii.

Let's just say that we're talking about exclusive games here, alright? You brought up the 1st party games criteria, but let's say that we're talking about exclusives.

PS3 had 13 games with a score at or above 90 at metacritic (even though some of them appeared on other Sony platforms)

Xbox360 had 11 games with a score at or above 90 at metacritic

Wii had 8 games with a score at or above 90 at metacritic (although some of them appeared on other Nintendo devices)

This tells us that Wii did NOT suffer from the lack of good exclusive games, like you want to make it out to have done. It got almost as many good games as Xbox360 in fact. And this isn't even talking about the 1st party line ups. This is exclusives. Now, what would happen if we took away all the 3rd party exclusives?

As far as good 1st party games are concerned, Wii had quite a few of them. Fact.