This is just going to start shit, let me lock this and then sort through and moderate at my leisure.

Game of the decade without online? LOL (J/K Rol)

Darkside Chronicles actually looks sick, and I have heard great things about it from GAMERS, not professional trollers.

How it could be rated anything below an 8 is beyond me.

Sell your Wii and buy a ball in a cup.

It's a ball.

In a cup.

To actually answer your question, there are a few key reasons.

1) You're reasoning is somewhat flawed. Game reviewers tend to favour some types of games over others, and thus your proof can only count for those games. While I normally despise the word "core", it actually fits here. If you ask "Why does the Wii have the weakest core library", that's actually closer to the truth. So, I will answer:

Why does the Wii have the weakest core library? Again, it's split.

Note that "core" here is used as the type of games that reviewers like, not gore games or anything of the sort.

2) The Wii "core" userbase is hard to hit. Some of them sell well, others don't sell at all. This actually appears to be the case moreso with the Wii than the X360/Ps3. As a result, there's a larger risk of your game selling incredibly little.

3) A smaller "core" userbase. The Ps360 combined have a far larger core userbase than the Wii. I don't like giving completely random numbers, but it's likely to be 2:1 at least.

4) Nintendo is an awful competitor to have. Face it, Nintendo is, this generation, the by far largest publisher. Nintendo's top 5 Wii games (not with Wii Sports) account for more than 25% of the Wii's software sales in 2009. If you can avoid fighting Nintendo, you will.

5) The start of the generation/the Wiimote controls. The Wii was expected to end dead last, and it did, thus, not start off with many "core" games. Therefore, there's less to build on. If you want to make a shooter on the X360, you have a fair bit of shooters to tell you how to do it. There are no games that really tell you how to use the Wiimote controls, and thus they actually become a development liability, as they might add in a lot of more work.

And the Wii doesn't have a lot of things going for it, for core games. I only see one obvious one:

1) Lower development costs. But this doesn't help too much, as it costs equally much to advertise for a Wii game as for an X360 game.

I hope this answered your question.

i think 2009 was better than 2008 though, but not by much.

2008 had Brawl and Mario Kart, Wario Land: Shake it and Okami

2009 had Punch Out, New Super Mario Bros, Murasama, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Madworld, Klonoa, Little King's Story.

I'm sorry

First step is fly out for a few months to Europe, so no gaming for me any time soon. Then I buy NSMB:Wii the day I get back. Then I shall buy Okami!

Thanks for your advice! I think this indicates that my mind hasn't caught up to the actual age of my body.

@ Kantor

But having a ball in a cup doesn't sound that grown up to me. Are you mocking me? :(

Great anthor person who uses metacritic