Report: Only 11% of Wii games score above 80%

@Markez

oh look here comes another wii fan upset that someone doesnt share their same opinion that waving their arms around and pretending to swing fake tennis rackets is considered next gen gaming.

Read my post again, or have your mom read it for you. The argument never came up over manliness by me, that was by Jody. My argument is that PCs/PS3's/360's have evolved from simple toys into the entertainment vehicle.

I would love for you to try to refute that.

it doesn't matter how many BAD games there are there BAD anyway what matters is how many GOOD games there are cause there GOOD! me play gta4 now.

HAHAHAHAHA the PS3 has the most quality game releases?? ROTFLOL! I would type more of a response but I'm having trouble because I am laughing so hard..

Charts and percentages hahaha you can get them to say just about anything.

It'd be interesting to see this with PS2 added in there. The Wii is pretty much the PS2 of this generation - handful of great games, lots of shovelware.

But when you factor in the price of development for a PS3/360 AAA title you can see why there are so few, and why they score higher (I mean why spend loads on a crap game?).

Anyone could have predicted this. The Wii is cheap to develop for, any studio no matter the size can make any game they want regardless of how crap it is.

Also I wouldn't trade that 11%. Galaxy and Brawl have brought me the best gaming moments outside of the PC kingdom.

The true analogy is Nintendo is digging gold with all those shovels.

you guys are just jealous that you dont have cooking mama to play on your failbox and gaystations

Well, it is pretty clear the Wii has the most junk.

But to be fair they have also had 2 problems in getting good reviews. (a) The launch titles were all trying to learn to use the new controller, so some of them didn't get it right.

But mostly (b) Game reviewers have no idea how to review Wii games. A lot of wii games got low AVERAGE scores, but their scores were really split! Games like SSX blur were getting really high scores from some reviewers, and really low scores from other reviewers. Some reviewers even gave games like RE4 bad reviews because they said the controls were terrible... while at the same time others said the controls were the best ever.

There simply is no consensus on Wii games between reviewers like there is for most other platforms. The only consensus is that there is a lot of junk...

How ironic. Nintendo's 'iron-grip' was also the reason a lot left for the Playstation before... Now that they Nintendo relaxes their grip, everybody wants it back...

Damn if they do, damn if they don't.

Does anyone actually believe in the reviewers that give glowing reviews to any game with hype and a check from the developer to tell us the quality of games anymore?

To the idiot that said, "However many Americans are brainwashed into buying the inferior console (in both game quality and build quality) because it's 'the American console'". Ummm...does that mean because I, and so many other americans, bought a DS means we are brainwashed? WTF?!!

How muture...

How mature...

^^^^^How the hell that happen?

Surely by definition a bad game would be one that scores below 50%, not 60%?

I think everybody here already knew this, no big deal guys...

People complain of the direction the Wii is taking the industry... I myself don't like the direction the other two are going.... More Expensive and relying on the ability to patch broken games... both are lose in my book.

I'm pretty much on the belief that no matter what Nintendo does, they'll be treated like third-rate. When it was about their Dream Team and limiting the number of games a developer made, they were fascists and dictators. So gamers said, "embrace everyone." They thought that meant undiscovered gems, possibly the next big thing. So Nintendo opened the flood gates. Little did we know that the big leagues not only wouldn't be giving much (if any) of their big hits, they were actually more inclined to give what they thought Nintendo systems amounted to - an afterthought. When the PS2 was the big seller, they were more inclined to treat it like the best thing ever, so they put both casual and hardcore titles. When the Wii was the big seller, they did what they always did, they dragged their feet. Their perception with regards to Nintendo was that of a throw-away. A side-line business if you will. Nothing major, just something that was there and if it died off it wasn't detrimental to their finances.

If Nintendo said they wanted to target the hardcore big time, these developers would be aimlessly wondering around bumping to each other with question mark hovering over their heads. If Nintendo said they were expanding to casual gaming, suddenly it's like a flood. These developers would simply be more willing to make games, casual games, because that's what their perception is to the Wii (or the last few Nintendo systems for that matter). Unless it's some cheap porting off of a PS2 game, the effort would be about as impressive as... well, as impressive as they are now (which is not).

Like Bertrand Russell said:

"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence..."

So even if a Wii is equally if not more capable than the PS2, these developer can't seem to comprehend why a Wii can have game like MGS3 or FFX or Mercenaries. It's almost like fanboy mentality if you ask me because frankly, that's what naysayers against the Wii seem to do as well.

Wow,people dont seem to realize how biased game reviews are. I mean yea, Wii Has bad Games, Ninjabread man or whatever, Escape from Bug Island and Anubis 2 but otherwise The Wiis games aren't that bad. People are Biased against the Wii, though I have to admit, some wii games are just filler games until the good games come out but its an ingenious marketing strategy for the more diehard fans who will buy anything. thats working and besides it is even stated Nintendo is making alot of money.

Also Every system has its good Qualities so this whole Console war thing is just bs, seriously. Some, like myself prefer Nintendo, some prefer playstation, Some Prefer 360, Its all a matter of Preference.

The only thing we Nintendo Fans should be mad about was the fact that Rarewear sold itself or whatever, to Microsoft and they got banjo Kazzoie, thats it. Yes we are mad because it was our game first but this console war is just for the birds.

I'm a Wii owner who's been a gamer all of my life (my parents bought an NES in 1988 when I was 3). My stance is that I don't really care if a bunch of 3rd party developers want to make crappy games for the Wii, as an informed gamer, I know a crappy game when I see one, and I can read reviews or rent questionable games. If I'm buying a handful of games that I find to be really fun, what's the difference in how many crappy ones there are out there that I'm NOT buying.