Bingo was his name-o!

@MakingMusic -- Depends on what you define as big games.

And speaking of Game Informer, two of the games they featured on their cover this year -- Brutal Legend and Ghostbusters -- were among those that Activision-Blizzard decided not to keep. Makes you wonder about somebody's decision-making.

Honestly, there is a lot of people who seem to hate the Wii solely because it does not have the same power as the PS3 or Xbox 360.

Speaking of GameInformer, their review archive shows roughly 50 titles for each console -- which would be an over-coverage of the PS3 and an under-coverage of the Xbox 360, based upon the console ownership reader poll. Honestly, I don't buy those numbers and plan to verify them.

Mike from Morgantown

Who only gets GI because it comes with my Edge card, which means if I buy $150 over the year of used stuff, the card has paid for itself and it and the magazine are free.

Magazines and newspaper sales are on the continuous downhill slide. All the information you need is on the internet.

BTW: Less magazine and newspaper sales = less trees are cut down and more environment friendly.

Game Informer has already featured the Aliens game and Alpha Protocol, both of which are due out LATE next year. Madworld and The Conduit have closer release dates and I can guarantee that neither will be featured. Both are high profile games (more-so than Aliens).

Game magazines are dying, but I think the murderer is sites such as this one, rather than Ninty

+1

Yeah, I don't read game magazines that much. The only one I read anymore is Nintendo Power.

 There will always be an avant garde and kitsch. Remember that.

Cant compare Game reviewers to movie Reviewers anymore
The movie reviewers at least acknowledge something which has low production values but is fun to watch
Game Reviewers,on the other hand,are slowly becoming Graphic,A-I etc whores, looking for a half-assed but serious sounding story-line more than an actually fun gaming experience

@jman8: As to your first post, the answer is simply yes. And that's what the market decides. If you disagree with the review too many times, you will stop reading them and find someone who knows how to review games and read his/her reviews.

@Makinmusic: Yes and no. I don't know about Wii Fit review, but it definately is one of the biggest games this year outside Japan (and in Japan too, but it was released in 2007 there), which means that it should have been rated almost everywhere. Like Brawl and MKWii.