That is fucking horrible. I'm disgusted by this. Nintendo need to impliment some kind of quality control and they need to do it YESTERDAY. Are they trying to turn all of their new fans away from video gaming?? This is madness!

*sigh* People who are going to buy core games are going to buy core games. This has nothing to do with bad sales.

Honestly I don't buy the Shovelware crap argument. Nobody is forcing people to buy that games, so what's the problem? Why instead of whining and taking pictures on malls simply don't buy the games.

If a new game (the Conduit, for example) did hit the market, it would be swallowed up by this candy colored kiddy shit. I remember when Nintendo limited the number of games and genres a company could release games for. Now, it looks like anybody can release anything for the Wii and get the Nintendo Seal of Quality stamped on the box. I bought a game called Kawasaki Jet Ski for the Wii earlier this year. My God, it was horrible. If this is what it looks like on store shelves (I usually buy my Wii games from EBGames), then there are going to be A LOT of unhappy Wii owners in 2009. Once again, I must say I am disgusted.

But what of the uninformed that go to the store trying to buy something for their kid, boyfriend, or what have you.  There is a zero percent chance of them picking out a gem from these titles.  And it does happen.  My cousin's girlfriend buys him games all of the time.  She's bought him Area 51, Dead Space, Mirrors Edge (wich he returned), Resistance 2, and Uncharted.  She doesn't have a clue, but she's been pretty lucky.  You'd have a chance picking the right briefcase on "Deal or No Deal" than picking a good game from this pile of crap.

So people are just to dumb to search for a specific game? In a ideal world only good games'll be sell at retailers but this's a bussnies and even bad games make a profit (just look at Carnival games). I remember that time and please, tell me why we had these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ItM_9MhACA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvW4qTLW-eY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_JKFHmPdO8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rpEFGJz748

Shovelware existed in the past, there was a lot of them on the PS1, Ps2, now the Wii and the next console with huge install base and cheap development cost is going to have a lot of shevelware too.

I have to ask.......why? Was the Jet Ski that got you, or the Kawasaki part?

Yes the the PS2 had "shovelware", but they had AAA calibur Games to back it up , can't say the same for the Wii. the PS2 had amazing games last gen to overshadowed the crappy shovelware games, the Wii shovelware outweighs the good games(few) they have pretty sad.

I went to buy Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and I saw the Jet Ski game. I had flashbacks of how much fun Splashdown and Wave Race were, so I bought it for $19. It looked like fun, and the pictures on the back of the case looked decent enough. Unfortunately, I was wrong. I should have done some research, that's true, but I have NEVER played a game that was that poorly put together. It wasn't even alpha stage demo quality. It didn't belong on a store shelf. I'm sure much of the stuff pictured isn't tested and polished either.

It gets worse though: