Yeah, people seem to like to ignore that Mario is on his third 3D platformer in an 11 year timespan; that is hardly what I would call 'milking a franchise' ... With the exception of Mario Party, most Nintendo games have 1 version released in an entire generation.

Answer:

Mario Golf
Mario Tennis
Mario hotel
Etc...

Are there no guns or swords in RE4, Zelda, Metroid....

The list itself isn't bad (aside from a few games), but the order is, so just ignore the order.

So what Wii games are missing from the list? The only thing I have seen mentioned so far is No More Heroes. 

As far as Spore is concerned, they don't list the PS3 and 360 versions either, and somehow I think those will probably be more similar to the PC version than the Wii version will be.

Again, ignoring the order, how many of these games should not be on the list?  I can only think of a few.

^crstaly cronc, and i did mention Bob Ross

Also Sadness, and Disaster:Day of Crisis

 Answer: those are completely different genres of games.  Nintendo milks their characters, but that doesn't mean they make endless sequels.  Well, except Mario Party.

Forget about the "of 2008" part, link for info on Sadness actually existing?

And Bob Ross?  Is that a joke? 

Waste of time.

^do you really ahve to ask about bob--and since tons of other games got the TBA for 2008 the wii should get some 2--and as far as i can tell its still on the way

 Do people realize I'm not just talking about GTA? We have GTA, Saints Row, Godfather, True Crime, Simpsons Hit and Run and I'm sure a pile of them I don't even know about.

I'm saying that the "sandbox" horse has been beaten to death, and I'm not suggesting that there aren't any OTHER genres that haven't likewise been beaten to death (FPSes being the primary culprit here) but it just seems like the GTA crime sandbox formula was hit hard and fast and when the genre consists of the same action no matter where you find it, I can't see why the genre stays afloat.

I admit that Godfather Blackhand was one of the most enjoyable games on the Wii with the motion control being as awesome as it was, but after becoming the don of NYC, I couldn't fathom ever playing a sandbox crime game all the way through ever again, just like I only ever played ONE Pokemon game (Ruby) just to see what the fuss was about and then never again. I couldn't fathom playing another one of those either.

Fighting Bowser is a different story because you're not always fighting him the same way. You could be jumping over him to hit a switch, throwing enemies in the air to hit him, spinning him by his tail into mines, firing his projectiles back at him, etc. In each case, the game is asking me to perform a different set of actions to succeed.

In sandbox games, you perform use the same controls to perform the same action each time. Running people over is still running people over, just as there's no tactile difference between beating a hooker with a bat in one game than another.

I realize that gaming in general suffers from this problem, but some genres do a good job of keeping it fresh while others just vomit out the same stuff over and over again and people keep buying them. Perhaps GTA IV will bring something new to the table, but I can't be the only one who has seen the explosion of the sandbox genre and its inevitable horse-beating.