Yeah, the fans don't want to make the switch though because Madden is basically all they play and they don't want to lose their competitive edge having to learn everything all over again.

I thought the article would have some good points - but it doesn't.

Waggle is NOT a failure - like all new techs, it got implemented badly in some software. In other software (where it is appropriate), it is fantastic.

Playing WarioLand:Shake now - and it is excellent. Although its "just" a 2D platformer, to me it feels completely different from the other platformers I have played - primarily because of the Shake/Waggle aspect. It is very well implemented.

WiiSports is single-handedly responsible for the success of the Wii - and the Wiimote lies at the centre of that. Its not about perfect 1:1 control - and never was. Its about how motion can be used successfully in a video game, and how this gets people interested in games that were never interested before. The same applies to WiiFit.

And this is why - overall - the Wii has been a raging success. After all - launching a year after the 360, in just two years it has outsold the 360 + PS3 combined (approx) - without a single price cut, new SKU, new colour, etc.

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As usual, the hardcores feel "cheated" and like to justify themselves. Motion + will represent a type of "relaunch" for the Wii - you can be sure that most of the "hardcore" games coming for it, will use it in some form.

Then, maybe it will get some of its "hardcore" cred back - and a couple of years later, we might see the promise of the Wii HD...

I disagree with the article. I play almost everyday with my Wii!!!

Good read. Ninty needs to focus more on its hardcore users instead of casual shovelware. Whatever happened to the Official Nintendo Seal of Quality?

I would like for you to point out some shovelware made by Nintendo.  All of their games are of very high quality.  If all third parties made games as good as Nintendo's, we would be in gamer heaven.

The Nintendo Seal of Quality only really meant that the game was guarenteed to work with their console.  It was not meant that it was a quality game.  If you are talking about the days that Nintendo limited how many games third parties could release a year on the consoles, that was part of the reason so many fled to Sony and the PS1.  That would be bad for Nintendo.

Nintendo has plenty of hardcore games currently on the market, and are in the process of developing more.  Games do take time, you know.

The current seal does not include quality in its title, btw.  Nintendo also lowered their standards. Jenga and Pool Party are examples, btw.

Ok, back to the article...

It's not like everything published in Gamasutra is true. Didn't you read the first word of the title? Opinion. And a very subjective and undocumented one, by the way.

The Nintendo seal of quailty was just a way for Nintendo to display which games were officially licenced ... It really had nothing to do with quality at all.

Shovelware has always been a massive problem on popular systems because off of the initial shipments to stores very low budget games can be very profitable. Just look at the PS2 (this is by no means a complete list, and there are hundreds of games which were so bad they weren't even reviewed):

Biker Mice from Mars rule! The hell?

Wait i'm thinking of the SNES version. They made a PS2 version?

"Consumers, many of whom have never played games before, have been picking up a Wii, enjoying it for a few weeks, and then watching it collect dust by their TV. They can’t explain why, but for some reason they just don’t play it anymore."

Turned it off at that part.