Did Nintendo screw us?

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tastyshovelware said:
the truce comment was more for the earlier stuff.

Yeah, personally I felt the ps2 was a solid console with plenty of noteworthy games. There were so many (in my opinion) that I could actually choose which great games not to get and still feel like I was getting the most out of my console. But it is a case by case basis.

For the wii, I can live off 8-10 solid-great titles a year. Of course I want more then that for the sake of variety but I'm not too hard to please anymore. I'm currently busy with zack and wiki making me feel like an idiot every day (cause it's tough, not bad, haha). Hopefully it all works out and everyones console has a sh*t load of awesome stuff.

I was planning that i wouldn't comment this thread, but for the bolded part, it's nice that you and Smash Brother came to an understanding. In other words what SB was saying, is that despite PS2 games being 98% shovelware, it still had solid library of good games. And as what comes to things discussed in this thread in general, Wii has pretty similar start with PSX (although not THAT bad) with games, biggest difference being that Wii actually has some good games to go along with the shovelware. Yes, i'd like to see similar quality control like Nintendo had with NES, but that's just impossible these days. Atari crashed the US market by having no quality control, Nintendo brought the market back to its feet with quality control and Sony stole the market with having no control over quality. In todays market, it seems, that you need to have as little control as possible and a number of hyped games and established franchises, which needs to live up to expectations/hype in order to have success. This is partially because of high dev costs.