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Forums - Nintendo - I love my wii, but man, the shovelware is getting deep

carlos710 on 15 January 2008

@kn

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Shade on 15 January 2008

I blame Wiifit for this



quigontcb on 15 January 2008
kn said:

I have a few games for my Wii that i really like and there are at least 10 that i want that are either out now or in the near future, but after having visited GS today, the shovelware is getting deeeeep. Lots of titles I've never heard of (nor want to)...

Hopefully this doesn't continue as it is going to give the Wii a bad reputation.

I'm sure some of it had to do with the holidays but we need to get a steady flow of top notch games to play...


 You're right. Shovelware absolutely destroyed the PS2, PS1, SNES, Genesis, and NES.



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Kasz216 on 15 January 2008
totalwar23 said:
BengaBenga said:
I've posted a lot of the games for next year here: http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=14526
Looks like the shovelware period is over!

good list, but you know the shovelware will outnumber them 5:1


 That's the price of being the Market Leader, or has been since Sony took first place in the PS1 era, the era of strict Quality Control died with the SNES because a lot of the time those shovelware games oddly sold systems.



Diomedes1976 on 15 January 2008

The Wii shelves are full of trash in a way the PS2 or PS1 never saw.The other day I was taking a look and SMG was just in the middle of the worst lineup I have ever seen.Dogz,Horsez,TriWiial,Cooking Mama,Wii Academy,lots of flash games turned into wii games...even most of the high profile games as Mario Party ,Link Crossbow or Sonic and Mario were crap and bordering the shovelware quality...



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Steve 3.2 on 15 January 2008
Kasz216 said:

That's the price of being the Market Leader, or has been since Sony took first place in the PS1 era, the era of strict Quality Control died with the SNES because a lot of the time those shovelware games oddly sold systems.

 Well there's a lot less risk for shovelware with disc based media.  With the cartridge systems, publishers took a large financial hit if their games didn't sell.  But I agree with the sentiment.  There are way too many crappy games to wade through this early on in the Wii's lifecycle.  Please make it stop, Reggie!

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superchunk on 15 January 2008

yep, just like all generation leaders, Wii will have an unending supply of shovelware.



Parokki on 15 January 2008

Bad games don't make a bad library. The lack of good games makes a bad library, and the Wii has no such weakness.

The huge portion of 3rd party games being as shitty as they are is due to the Wii's sudden success catching most publishers with their pants down. Games of all types are starting development all the time, and it's only logical for the bad ones to get here first.



PSaiki on 15 January 2008

After I saw Mr. Mosquito for PS2, no shovelware is able to make me get pist.



--OkeyDokey-- on 15 January 2008

shovelware will always be allocated to the most popular console with the biggest userbase/software sales. it doesn't help that wii games are dirt cheap to develop.

sorry but the shovelware aint going nowhere.