Why I am not that excited with the Wii and Wii Fit sales

[Ail]

radioioRobert said:

Ail said:
I'm wondering what Nintendo is going to do too to prevent an Atari like crash for the DS and the Wii developers.

With the success of those platforms you see a lot of shovelware being developed ( as well as some really good games) and it brings back old memories....

If you look at the DS, some segments are already saturated ( how many Brain training games do we really need ?).

And the longer they wait and the more shovelware they let out the harder it is for new good games to actually step their head out of the pack....

Um, lots of us read that article this past weekend That developer's arguement fails as does your copying it. The 2600 died because ONLY shovelware was being released at that point. I remember how much those games sucked compared to the early games. The DS & Wii have lots of great games, the shovelware developers might indeed die.

 http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=16273 Wii

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=222049 DS

The best point in this thread is that without Carnival Games GTAIV might never have made it to stores. That's more frightening than what you are frightened of.

You have selective memory.

The year of the crash was the year the following games were released :

- Mario Bros ( excuse the chuckle when I see a Wii Fan calling the first Mario console game shovelware :P)

- Pole Position

- Mrs PacMan.

- Battlezone.

Hardly only shovelware... 

PS : It's foolish to believe GTA4 only came out because of Carnival Games. As the recent EA bid for TakeTwo showed as well as the 50 million$ loan from Microsoft, plenty of companies are interested in the success of the game and would have done what needed to be done so that the game came out anyway...