Wii Game Selection = Lose/Lose/Lose/Lose/Lose/Lose/Lose Situation

[bardicverse]

LordTheNightKnight said:

bardicverse said:
Seriously guys, what's with the doom and gloom? The Wii isn't even 2 years old yet. PS2 had a similar issue in its first 2 years of development too, with a lot of shovelware on the system and not much really impressive. Years 3 and 4 are where the glory games come out, the ones that really push the system's hardware and bring a breath of fresh air to the system's library. Just be glad that there are SOME decent games on the system thus far.

I'm not sure what's more frustrating - a couch jockey claiming to know how the inner workings of the industry move and feel regarding a console, or the sheep that support him.

Are you kidding? Assuming you even mean March 2002 (2 years after the Japan launch), the PS2 had plenty of quality 3rd-party games. Onimusha, Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy X (In Japan), Metal Gear Solid 2, GTA III, etc.

The PS2 did not get the treatment the Wii is getting.

 Much of the development on PS2 languished for the first few years due to the complexity of the dev kits. You gave me 5 games on your list, I assume they all reached 1 mil in sales or at least 500k? In the year and a half the Wii has been out, there have been a fairly equal number of 3rd party games that broken 500k or 1 mil. The parallels between the PS2 and Wii are uncanny.