I think part of it is reviewers trying to attract new users to their sites. Nearly everyone is going to review COD, but a much smaller group will review a specific piece of shovelware, post a review of it and your going to get traffic from people googling it looking for a review.

Also another problem game reviewers have is big developers get really angry when they give low scores to Big hits at release (Fallout New Vegas anyone?) and then threaten to pull add revenue. So you want to make sure that your review is accurate because the developer will call you on it and if the review is low well you might just want to wait a couple weeks before publishing it...

The funny thing is...

I only ever see Nintendo fans saying such things :/

I've seen a few haters claim it here and there. It was more common before it was obvious that the games would be just Wii ripoffs.

And yet that doesn't apply to Black Ops, which I anticipate could be finished in the duration of an average bowel movement.

Note to self, move tv to bathroom

They are doing it to get more site hits. They probably spend more time writing the review than actually playing the game.

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I remember looking at the review for Axis of Evil and the pics said, "Trial Version"

So even when negative, reviews are suspect... which some of us already suspect happens even with "core" Wii games.

Yes, you're absolutely right.

Nintendo fans were the ones who originally started the whole doom and gloom thing, absolutely.

I think that there is also some snobbery involved. The Wii has moved gaming in a direction that many traditional gamers (such as those who write reviews) probably do not like.  No longer was "bigger" as in bigger graphics automatically "better" as in a better game. So they are anxious to show shovelware as to how bad the system is.

That being said, the lack of reviews for the Wii is more of a universal than it is a targeted problem.

Mike from Morgantown

In all honesty though, how can an adult reviewer tackle a game called "Baby Sitting Mama" any other way?