| spurgeonryan said: To be honest, and I think this may be for another thread, but I think Shovelware right now would help the Wii U. At least people would see it getting new games on a regular basis. I am not advocating Shovelware at all, but maybe it could help casuals pick it up. Right now, whenever you go in the store, the same games are there, week after week. |
Problem with that theory is, that in the entire history of video game consoles, it has ALWAYS been the highest selling system of each generation that gets (by far) the most "shovelware". Atari 2600, NES, SNES, PS1, PS2, Wii. It has been a recurring trend, and the reason is clear and simple: people want to cash in and get a "slice of that pie". They think their crappy software has the best chance of selling on the biggest selling console. Hence the reason why on NES, while it had SO many truly great, classic games, it also had a pile of total crap as well. And while people seem to point to the Wii as a "shovelware console", yet glorify the PS1 and PS2, they seem to forget all of the cheaply made, horrendous garbage that came out for those systems. After all, games like Ninja Bread Man were PS2 titles before being ported over to Wii.
Notice how, for example, the N64, while it certainly had some bad games (every system does), really didn't have much "shovelware" to speak of. And again, the answer to that is a simple one: those cheap companies don't want to waste time and money making their cash-in games for a system that they think might not have the best chance of them selling. The PS1 was that gen's cash cow, so it got the lion's share of crap. Etc. etc.
Meaning, that'll obviously be the case this new generation as well. Whichever system establishes itself early on as the clear frontrunner, will inevitably be the system that gets the shovelshat. So right this moment, Wii U is not a candidate for that, at least not in retail form, because it's started out slow.
