Was 2007 a fluke, or is it a possible trend of things to come in the next few years? Sure, there’s still a lot of shovelware being doled out each and every month, but last year gave me hope that most game developers have finally figured out that gamers don’t like crap.
There’s been a ton of crap dropped on the Wii in the past year. What could save it?
Like all things in the media, bad games seem to be a mainstay in the industry. It always boggled my mind that game developers would release such horrible games when the top of the market was filled with gems. I mean, why would you release a game like Hour of Victory when Call of Duty 2 had been on the market for quite some time? Didn’t someone on the development team notice the problems in the game?
It seems that many lessons are hard learned in the industry. Crappy games date back before my birth, and because the market was flooded with the filth, many people thought console video gaming was gone forever. See E.T. for the Atari. There’s a land fill in the southwest U.S. filled with those old cartridges.
As you all know, Nintendo swooped in and saved the day, with their main weapon being the ‘Nintendo Seal of Quality.’ That’s right, the same seal that just about saved the industry now resides on the box for crappy Wii games, like Ninjabread Man.
That makes me worry.
The Wii seems to be countering the progress developers are making. When a game’s budget rivals those of movies, they tend to care a bit more about their product than a game that costs a fraction of that. If Nintendo wants their system to be more of a heavy hitter this generation, they may want to bring back their Seal of Quality policies, and help keep some of the riff-raff off of their system.
Very soon, the Wii is going to become synonymous with crap games. Sure there’s a few gems to be found, but they’re few and far between. It’s time Nintendo makes that Seal mean something again. It’s time to put the quality back onto a Nintendo console.
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19 responses so far ↓
1 Dejanus // Feb 18, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Im a Wii owner, and the apalling klack of good games is pretty scary to me.
Its not a good sign that the last game I bought for the Wii was Metroid Prime 3, and the lasttime I even touched my Wiimote was early November.
I hope nintendo turns it around, this trendof craphas really been big since the GC days.
2 Alecsander_C // Feb 18, 2008 at 2:36 pm
lol
but you have to remember that back in the NES day, some awful games got the seal!
3 Dzjoowie // Feb 18, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I’m not a Wii owner and will probably never be one. I haven’t touched a Wii since I finished Zelda and that game made me feel like the Wii had a good future ahead. Unfortunately it turned out to become a truckload of partygames and wiggly gimmicky thingies.
4 irish boy90 // Feb 18, 2008 at 3:18 pm
i agree with you all.
haven’t played my wii on a long time.
However I saw a few games coming soon to the wii
on this site last year.
Have a few games to look forward to.
Mario cart wii will be the next game on my list
5 insert username here // Feb 18, 2008 at 3:41 pm
It seems that the crap games for Wii were made to attract the easily entertained casual gamer.
6 Minbad // Feb 18, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Now THAT’S a lovely but vain crusade! :p
7 Kuts // Feb 18, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Wii games are ps2 quality at best I’m never going back to that no matter how big the sticker…
8 RaiseHavok // Feb 18, 2008 at 5:45 pm
I own three Wii games. Two of those are Virtual Console games. In just over a year of the introduction of the Wii to the market, I have one Wii game. There were a lot of people that bashed the Gamecube, but at least I bought two games at the launch of that console. I believe the Wii is already synonymous with crap games.
9 A Rabid Moose // Feb 18, 2008 at 7:21 pm
The problem with bringing back the seal of quality is that they would put it on Metriod, Galaxy, and MGS, and then realize none of the other Wii games are good enough.
10 Adam // Feb 18, 2008 at 7:39 pm
After years of living in the Nintendo camp, I”m jumping ship and saving money for a PS3. I feel so free.
11 Kaptain Kako // Feb 18, 2008 at 8:37 pm
I have been Pure-Nintendo until about 2 months ago. I realized that the Wii was going nowhere, and bought a 360. Best decision that I have made in my life. Last game I bought for the Wii was MP3: Corruption, and I haven’t touched the Wii since.
12 Maul // Feb 19, 2008 at 1:18 am
The Wii “currently” has a lack of good games but a flurry of 2008 titles, like Medal of Honour and Brawl, are set to turn it around.
13 Keith K // Feb 19, 2008 at 1:54 am
Medal of Honour and Brawl have no chance of helping the Wii.. nor does Mario Kart Wii.. Nor did Mario Galaxy or Twilight Princess.
All those games were available on GameCube. Most of those games were available on N64. Several of those games were on SNES and a couple of them were on NES.
Rehashing games that have been done already cant turn a system around. Those games are keeping the Wii afloat in the hearts of longtime fans of a few series’..
The Xbox’s success has nothing to do with Halo but everything to do with the surprises of Bioshock, Mass Effect and Gears of War. Quality IPs that catch the consumer (and the competition) off guard.
In the same way, MGS4 and FFXIII wont save the PS3 or ‘turn it around’.. That distinction was given to games like Warhawk, Uncharted and PixelJunk Monsters. It will continue with LittleBigPlanet, FF Versus XIII and Resistence 2.
What is Nintendo really doing to keep things fresh?
14 animathias // Feb 19, 2008 at 6:17 am
The Wii will need more than 2 good games to turn it around, Maul. I’ll agree that Brawl, Mario Kart, Medal of Honor, and a couple of other games here and there look good. However, that doesn’t change the fact that shovelware is being released on a weekly basis for a system. 10 games out of 100 aren’t going to change anyone’s perspective on the system - and those numbers are being generous for both sides.
15 Grantly // Feb 19, 2008 at 6:59 am
The Wii’s games are crap, but there are a lot of games coming out this year that look fun, but you’ll never hear about them because everyone will be talking about Wii Fit (it gets funnier every time I say it.) Anyway though, there are games like Fatal Frame 4, SSBB, No More Heroes, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Prime 3, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, Obscure: The Aftermath, and possibly Animal Crossing, and good God I’m defending the Wii, what’s wrong with me?
16 Clstirens // Feb 19, 2008 at 9:47 am
Wtf IS wrong with you?
17 FlintSteelton // Feb 19, 2008 at 4:49 pm
I used to be a nintendo fan. Once I dropped out of it, their games got less fun. Even MP3 and Galaxy weren’t fun.
I’m not a casual gamer and will never be, so I can’t really give my opinion on Wii games since the only one that interests me is Brawl.
It’s probably best to think of the Seal of Approval as “Yup. We approve that this is a Wii game. Good job. Now make us some money.”
18 Harag // Feb 19, 2008 at 9:36 pm
@ keith
your assuming the ps3 needed saving
sales were low in the first year due to bad apps
now that toshiba is droping HD and paramount is expected to announce its bail out plan in the week to come ps3 is coming out of its corner swingin for the fences
19 boringsupreez // Aug 5, 2008 at 11:05 pm
These comments are really outdated.
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