It's all part of the revolution. By creating a new world of video games, eventually a new world of gamers will emerge, and eventually there will be outlets of the gaming media that fairly evaluate them

The magazines and outlets that spurn the Wii (GameSpot, Game Informer, EGM/1up) shall either adapt or fail (the failure we can see coming in EGM)

actually, this kind of threads is what makes me to feel stupid every time i visit the site

i mean, forum is about opinions, couldn't " do you think Nintendo's quality of games is decreasing" be a better title!?

why the f*** do you even bother to pay attention to what the fucking review says if the game is selling 10 million?


i'm mad, i'll make a "STUPID THREAD" for every annoying thread i read, i don't care if i get banned :P

we all know Nintendo or better, Wii games get the lowest scores in reviews, there's NO need to repeat a million times in different words in different threads!!!

Oh God oh please no I don't want to aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAUGH-

Reviews have never mattered. The fact that gaming journalism's facade of critical training has been exposed as a ruse changes absolutely nothing. Turning gamerankings into a giant review aggregate prick-waving competition was always a bad practice, it's just that now we have a point of reference from which to disassemble the reviewing body.

I see what your saying but the people are happy.
Nintendo has put its focus to more casual games like Wii Fit, Wii Music, Animal Crossing CF and it has appealed to a wider audience.

Just some random thoughts.

Are video game critics becoming as meaningless as movie critics? They might serve to steer people away from pure dung. But there is not always a connection between the most "well received movies" and the "most popular ones."

Right now, the Wii is the blockbuster movie wiith 2-star reviews. High brows hate it but the masses love it.

The PS3 and Xbox 360 are the award-winners. The PS3 is like an art-house/indie film. The Xbox 360 is like a high-end studio movie. Some people might have them. But most don't ... and many don't care about them.


As for using critic scores to rate quality ... some good points have been raised. The most bias I see (against the Wii) is that games get scored down because they are not in HD. This is a minor point. But it does make it very difficult to score in the 90s.

Invariably, one or two reviewers of any game will not like it. However, since Wii games don't get a lot of reviews, there are usually fewer to balance out undeserved bad marks. The result is games scoring slightly lower on these metrics than they otherwise would -- and that can decrease the number of games in arbitrary categories of goodness.

Mike from Morgantown

Excuse me, but the analysis in the OP is worthless because it lacks critical information. Even if we accept the (false) premise that gamerankings accurately reflects game quality in new, "casual" genres, RSEagle has not informed us of the numbers of Nintendo games published in those years. For all we know, the 80+ and 90+ games went down in number simply because the overall number of games went down in number.

Also, listing overall 80+ and 90+ games on platforms is ridiculous when one is supposedly talking about a specific publisher.

Well i dont want to sound rude, but on the 360 and PS3 you get the same recycled ideas from previous console generation spiced up with better graphics.

Wii provides a chance for developers to create something new and innovative, and provide more ambitious games with lesser budget, some of them do take that chance, some don't 2009 lineup looks impressive. Nintendo itself have released some great games this generation (they ares still THE best 1st party studio) with amazing controls (MP3 for example) they also attempted to develop new ideas (something that you're looking for right?) Wii Music, Wii Fit (look how much innovation this opens up, and how cool is Shaun White with it) maybe they do not appeal to everyone but they are something new.

Nintendo product quality is not going down, they still do make excellent games.

In general all the hate comes from snob core media journalists and their sheep who thought the future of gaming was improved horsepower and doomed the wii even before it released (same story for DS) .

Of course nowadays they attack the wii at every opportunity just because nintendo proved them wrong and make their arguments look stupid and irrilevant .
How many times have we seen editorials of this kind.. "nintendo should do this" and "nintendo should do that"

In short they are angry at nintendo for putting them in their place which is to provide a service to consumers and nothing more.

Revolution comes to the snob core and they are not liking it hehe..

by saying this, you are becoming exactly what you say reviewers are.  you are saying their style of gaming is wrong and should enlighten themselves with the wii.

let's face it: game reviewers are in the same target audience of the ps3 and 360.  their natural affinity towards certain types of games suits the games that appear more on ps3 and 360.  by them expressing a higher approval of ps3 and 360 games is natural and i would be shocked if it were to change any time soon.

trust me, everyone should be happy with this gen.  hardcore gamers have their fill, same with mid core, same with casual.  everyone wins this gen.  how can anyone be displeased?

90% of reviews are done by people from the PS2, PS3 and Xbox360 era who are hardcore players who could use a dual thumbstick controller in their sleep.
However most people actually can't be bothered to figure out how to play a game which uses 4 triggers, 6 buttons , 2 thumbscicks with buttons and a D pad to operate. !
This is where the Nintindo Wii rules - all the top Wii games use simple interfaces which anyone can pickup and play Wii Fit , Mario Kart , Wii sports etc.
Remember back when computers only had CLI interfaces like dos and Unix then along came the GUI and Mouse, and swept them away the keyboard and the old CLI's like dos in no time. There was MS Windows, MAC , Amiga GUI and Atari ST ,X Windows and others and the Command line/keyboard only users were suddenly the minority in an ocean of new users.
I think the WiiMote is just like the comming of the easy to use GUI to games consoles , suddenly anyone can play, and the old Keyboard or Thumbstick only controller users can complain all they like give the new fun/easy to play games low scores but fact is their thumbstick controllers are a relic of the past and will have to live as a shadow becide a better simpler more intuitive way to play.

So let the old reviewers give their HD thumbstick games 10's they can speak to my hand. !
After the GUI and Mouse arrived on computers anything without without these was basically destined for the bargain bin or land fill !.
Wii has made the competition completly irrelevant it is the only real next-gen console.