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The Wii has by far the worst lineup .The PS1 and PS2 never had this kind of shovelware and especially not in its first years.They had good and bad games but the kind of shovelware of the Wii only in the very last moments of their life and with the succesor already out.And the amount of good games was far ahead the Wii.



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

 I always heard that game was supposed to be quite fun. I always wanted it :(



Yes

Diomedes1976 said:
The Wii has by far the worst lineup .The PS1 and PS2 never had this kind of shovelware and especially not in its first years.They had good and bad games but the kind of shovelware of the Wii only in the very last moments of their life and with the succesor already out.And the amount of good games was far ahead the Wii.

No, no, no, no, and no, but thanks for trying.

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Yeah, no more heroes is on my list... as is Endless Ocean, MP3, Zack and Wiki, Geometry Wars, BWII, just to name a few that are out now or within a week or so... Add to that House of the Dead 2/3, lego indiana jones, mario kart, and so on... There is no doubt that there was a lot of shovelware on the PS1 and PS2 but I had hoped we had gotten past that point in the world of video games. If shovelware is what it takes to make a console successful in the long run, I'm at a loss for words.



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Diomedes1976 said:
The Wii has by far the worst lineup .The PS1 and PS2 never had this kind of shovelware and especially not in its first years.They had good and bad games but the kind of shovelware of the Wii only in the very last moments of their life and with the succesor already out.And the amount of good games was far ahead the Wii.

You're right. The PS1 and PS2 never had Spice Girls games, McDonald games, 50 cent games, etc times 100.



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Seriously it isn’t the lack of quality games that's hindering the Wii, it’s the lack of patience from customers and from developers as well. Everything seems stuck in a loop, people want games for the wii now, but they also want triple A games from third parties as well.

This is the fault of both the people who buys the wii and the developers who the games. Think about it if the developers hadn’t lost faith in Nintendo do you think that they would’ve be in this situation? And if the customers didn’t want more and more games rushed or not do you think the Quality of third parties game would be the same as it is now? I also think that this bubble busting talk has some devs scared to put an effort in their games and not rush it for fear of it not selling well.

Admittedly I was mad as hell when SSBB was delay again but now that I calmed down I realized it still gonna be here in a month, and it also gives NMH even more of a chance. It’s just as what Miyamoto says: “A bad game is forever bad but a delayed game is eventually good” if only other devs take heed to this (oh how so many games would’ve been saved).

And also if a game like Sadness gets a 09 date why is it considered shoveware on the wii? It shows that at least they’re not trying to rushing the game. Though it was in the concept form when they showed it that doesn’t mean that it’s shoveware. It all boils down to another saying “Patience is a virtue” have patience and good things will come.



Oh and I know that Kn metion this but I feel that I can not repeat this enougth, there're a lot of good games on the Wii right now. If you have to look hard for them do so stop looking at the bad game on the wii and start looking at the good ones (you know the not so ninjabread kind).



kn said:
There is no doubt that there was a lot of shovelware on the PS1 and PS2 but I had hoped we had gotten past that point in the world of video games. If shovelware is what it takes to make a console successful in the long run, I'm at a loss for words.

There's no going back from that point, let along past it. That'd be like me saying I'm expecting an end to seemingly endless stream of thoughtless half-assed studio movie trash that is the film industry today. It's an unfortunate side effect of any medium gaining more appeal and acceptance is that said popularity attracting more pretenders and wannabes looking to profit from it.

The obvious solution is to simply not buy what you deem shovelware.



@kn:
Shovelware -/-> Successful Coonsole
Successful Console -> Shovelware



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The wii has shovelware.



 

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