Oh yeah, I suckered you in, didn’t I. The new game? Yeah, it’s a bean bag tossing game called Target Toss Pro: Bags. Those Incredible Technologies? Yeah, that’d be the developer’s name. The cumulative image of the Wii just sank another notch lower in my book. We now have video game equivalents of simple kids games.
You toss a bean bag into a hole. Wait, that was over-simplified, let me quote the words of the developer: “You stand at one end of a court with four beanbags, and at the other end there is a slanted, wedge shaped box with a hole in it. Your goal is to toss the beanbag into the hole.”
Uh, yeah, that’s better?
At what point does a parent (or even kid) decide that paying money for a virtual bean bag and a virtual hole is a better investment than filling a sock with pinto beans and cutting a whole in a board?
Every time a decent game gets released on the Wii, I feel a little bit less validated for my personal dismissal of the system as a whole, but then there’s inevitably a bunch of stuff like “bean bag tossing” to remind me what a crap-magnet the Wii has become. Make no mistake, Wii owners/lovers, I’m not saying there are no good games for the system, I’m saying the machine is a shovelware-prone crap-magnet. I dare you to deny that fact… double DOG dare you.
I’d love to see someone work out the Hits-to-Sh*t ratio of the three current gen systems. Ah hell, that seems easy enough to do… let’s hit Metacritic.com and compare games scoring over 80 to games scoring under 80 for the three consoles. Wow, that’s actually pretty interesting to see… For the PS3, every hit game is matched by 3.12 sh*t games. For the 360, every hit game comes along with 4.15 sh*t games. Lastly, we have the Wii… where every hit game, drags along 9.09 sh*t games in its wake. I think that speaks for itself.
Incredible Technologies… you’re aptly named, although I think you intended the “good” connotation of the word “incredible” instead of the one I’m thinking of… the one realizing that on a percentage basis there is over twice the crap on the Wii as the 360 and almost three times the crap as the PS3.
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9 responses so far ↓
1 binkery // May 15, 2008 at 4:02 pm
well yeah Wii has shovelware but PS1 and PS2 is still the king of shovelware
2 Kiltman67 // May 15, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I think somebody already has done a “Hits-to-Sh*t ratio”. I remember a few months ago Microsoft were making a big deal about the number of 90+ on the 360 and somebody countered by showing that the ratio was higher (or is it lower, never sure how directions work with ratios) on the PS3.
The depressing thing about the Wii is that no matter how much crap there’s been released for it, it’s even worse for the DS.
I have been considering buying a Wii, but I know that once I’ve played Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime, Boom Blox etc. I’ll have to resort to the latest stroke a horse simulator to get any use of the console.
3 NuclearNinja1429 // May 15, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I DENY THAT FACT!!
Just kidding.
4 NuclearNinja1429 // May 15, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I DENY THAT FACT!!
Just Kidding
5 NuclearNinja1429 // May 15, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Oops….Sorry for the double post.
6 Wolflive // May 15, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Whoo hooo, hey kids you like bean bags? Do you like trowing them but hate having to pick them up? Well, do we have a game for you…
7 The Ploogle // May 15, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Hey, news flash: The reason the Wii (and all other Nintendo systems) have all this crap on them is because Nintendo made the SDK readily available to any company who wants to make games. The reason you don’t have as many crap games on the 360 and PS3 is because they guard the developer rights like a starving dog with a steak. Also, the big developers thus far haven’t shown much interest in the Wii, thereby screwing up the crap ratio even more.
8 Blades144 // May 15, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I think the biggest suprise her for me is that IGN posted a freakin article on it. Are you f*&#ing kidding me? How do the controls work?
“Well you see, first you drop a huge steaming log by squeezing the nunchuk, then you make a wiping motion with the Wiimote, careful to avoid the sack!”
9 Pablos102030 // May 15, 2008 at 11:20 pm
@NuclearNinja1429: triple post.
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