I'd guess no.  But in his mind "Mini-games = Crap" so it wouldn't matter how good it was.  All the Mario Party games are fun though.  Usually only with friends though since the computer Ai's really suck.

Go to metacritic and compare the Wii's library to the 360's and PS3's. It becomes quickly apparent that the Wii has a growing list of subpar games and relatively few good titles(above 80-85). It's true that SMG, SSBB, and MP3 are coming and all should review very well but it also is true that what appears to be a tsunami of crap will also wash in with it.

I think Nintendo is partly to blame since they continually tried to push Wii development by mentioning low cost for making a game on the Wii (sub 5 million and when you factor in the advertising costs into that it leaves very little for developing a quality AAA or even A game).

Also the fact that Nintendo is publishing poor games themselves (Mario Party 8) which are having huge sales doesn't help the problem.

DonWii said: HappySqurriel said: "Namco Bandai Holdings Inc reported its net profit for the fiscal year ended March 31 climbed 71 pct to 24.2 bln yen, buoyed by brisk sales of DVDs and game software, but the company predicts earnings" "growth in the current year will be slower because of the lower-than-expected sales of games for Sony Corp (nyse: SNE - news - people )'s PlayStation 3." "..." "Because of sluggish sales, Namco Bandai plans to release only 23 titles for PS3 in the current fiscal" "year, compared to 24 games to be sold to Microsoft Corp (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )'s Xbox360 and 37 titles to be released for Nintendo Co Ltd (other-otc: NTDOY.PK - news - people )'s Wii console." http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/afx/2007/05/09/afx3700516.html   "The largest of the independent publishers, Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS) has seen its shares underperform its rivals, as investors have worries that the company placed too much focus on the PS3 and lacks sufficient titles for the popular Nintendo platforms." http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200707311313DOWJONESDJONLINE000646_FORTUNE5.htm   "Greenwald believes THQ's positioning on the Wii and DS will help lift the company. "THQ continues to be 'overexposed' to the Nintendo platform, which should be a positive going forward," he said. "Nintendo made up 35% of revenue in the quarter, vs. 10% for the Xbox 360 and 0% on the PS3." http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=16994   Who's the scapegoat?

How was he owned?  The author of the article used the word scapegoat to mean that the Wii was being used as an excuse to produce "cheapskate games and halfwitted ports" instead of actually having to put the money required into a game to make a good one.  He didn't mean it as an excuse for losses or poor profits.

Are cheapskate games being made for the Wii because of the system or are cheapskate games being made because developers put most of their money into developing PS3 and 360 games?

Sqrls posts would seem to indicate later was the case. It will probably take till the end of 2008 before we know the answer to that however.

Either way it matters little to me as i'll just keep picking up Wii games until they don't interest me anymore and 360 games to play at my friends, then i'll get a PS3 and pick up all the "Killer Aps" cheap at a used videogame store.

Here's what I found when I looked at the Metascores back on June 24:

Wii game reviews on Metacritic.
Of the 63 listed Wii games, 12 (19%) have a rating of 75+, 40 (63%) have a rating of 50-74, and 11 (17%) have a rating below 50. Two (3%) games are rated above a 90: Zelda and Resident Evil 4 (originally released on the GameCube and PS2 in 2005).

PS3 game reviews on Metacritic.
Of the 46 listed PS3 games, 22 (48%) have a rating of 75+, 21 (46%) have a rating of 50-74, and only 3 (6%) have a rating below 50. One game (2%) is rated above a 90: Oblivion.

360 game reviews on Metacritic.
Of the 203 listed 360 games, 88 (43%) have a rating of 75+, 106 (52%) have a rating of 50-74, and only 9 (4%) have a rating below 50. Seven games (3%) have a rating above 90, with Gears of War and Oblivion the highest rated.

Rating..... Wii..... PS3..... 360
90-100 ....... 2 ....... 1 ....... 7
80-89 ....... 4 ....... 13 ....... 49
75-79 ....... 6 ....... 8 ....... 32
65-74 ...... 22 ...... 12 ...... 59
50-64 ...... 18 ....... 9 ...... 47
00-49 ...... 11 ....... 3 ....... 9
Total ....... 63 ...... 46 ...... 203

So each console has roughly the same percentage (2-3%) of 90+ games, but Wii games are less than half as likely to be rated 75-100 as PS3 and 360 games.

 Are the numbers very different?  I believe the two sites are affiliated with each other.

Haha, funny article. Another funny thing: how is that when, in GC era, some people was like "meh... it has awezome games... but it doesn't has lots of games! I want lots of games!"... and now in Wii era, the same people are like "meh... it has lots of games... but it doesn't has awezome games! I want awezome games"

And right now, devs aren't investing lots on their Wii games two reasons:

1st: They invested most of their money on the supposed-to-dominate-the-world PS3
2nd: Now, they need to recover the money they lost on the 1st reason, so they produce cheap games.

Also, how is that Excite Truck sucks? It's a very fun game.

I'd guess the difference would be the sources they use. Metacritics list their review choices. Gamerankings i haven't found their list yet, they might just use all reviews.

Oh... and also, for those calling "Wii Sports" a crappy demo and a bad game it should be noted that it's got a 76 on metacritics which is still in the green AKA a good game by reviewer standards.

Leave it to Killzone3 to find one of the most anti-Wii articles on the net and deem it “not bad”.