IMO it could be argued the reason so much of Nintendo s "blue Ocean" evaporated so quickly was the shovelware- most experienced gamers knew/learned to avoid the shovelware- but the new casual gamer came in and bought a ton of shovelware- they eventiually relaized it for what it was but in many of the big casual genre s like hunting, fishing etc virtually all the games were shovelware- so the entertainment was short term, skin deep and a cheap thrll- not enough to get most of the "blue ocean" to keep gaming, to respect gaming and def not enough for them to go buy a $350 Wii U that was completely different "in their eyes" than the intuitive Wii.
I probably represent oe of the minority who became interested in what the Wii had to offer via playing games w my Son- but instead of giving up on gaming, I waded through, educated myself to help avoid buying my son poor value games/shovelware as well as myself
If all I had ever played was the shovelware games i would have left gaming behind several years ago and not been willing to invest in nearly as many games for my children-
