2K exec unhappy with flood of 'crappy' casual Wii titles

The thought of Wal-Mart denying titles any shelf space due to quality issues makes me giggle.

"I'm sorry, but that game is just too shitty to meet the high standards Wal-Mart has set for selling games."

Woaw, that toilet.... i cant think of anything else better then that toilet right now, ill place a bid for 150 quid, is it a bucket with a worktop nailed to it? Fucking amazing idea, no waste on water bills or w/e toilets take up

Just remember to empty and spit clean after use and you'll be set for life time, (Add extra support to bucket depending on where you buy)

Lolz

Dont let him see the Apple app store

God I love that bathroom.

Maybe it's time he released something good then.

i have no idea why but the first thing i thought of when i saw that picture was Half Life 2

Ten bucks for anyone willing to drink out of that wash bowl :)

This is all on Nintendo. They're the ones licensing out the platform to anyone who wants to port of a piece of shit in Flash. Cut the crap back. Why not have internal reviewers that require at least a 5.0 or so quality. Seems like there are some free industry vets that could help out with this.

My 3 year old son loves Carnival Games. Seriously. He'd play it every day if we'd let him. I know the game gets dogged, but it's pretty good for it's intended market.

I'm sorry but how is more choice a bad thing? People are confused? Confused about what? You pick a game and buy it. If you don't like it, you pick another one. God forbid a consumer do a little research before dropping $40 - $60 on a game. I'd rather have more choices to sift through and more options than one game a year that others might think is "good" but I don't. I don't play Halo/COD/etc. on my 360 and thank god there are more choices than that. Different people have different tastes. One man's crap is another man's treasure.

Idea: do something about it. Don't sit and complain, make a brilliant game to attract the hardcore crowd.

I was at Best Buy a week r so ago looking at games and a HUGE chunk of the rack was dedicated to Ubisoft's shitty shovelware games. It kind of made me sick, especially when I realized that probably a lot of people are going to see literally 6-8 different 'Imagine' titles all next to eachother and think, "Oh, this must be quality, look at all the sequels!"

As much as I love Nintendo, they really need to put a stop to this. All it takes is one or two bad experiences with these horrible games to turn these newer gamers off on videogames forever.

i dont believe it for one second . i thought everything on the wii is gold ? i mean thats all i hear all the time is how great the games are . i think maybe this story is a fake .

Amen brother!

The PS2 was also flooded with shovelware and other crap.

- Over 1800 PS2 titles were produced.
- 80% of PS2 games reviewed by metacritic scored under 80%.
- 93% of PS2 titles sold under 1 million copies each.
- 74% of PS2 game sales came from titles selling under 1 million copies.

But no one whined about this crap on the PS2.

Glad to see someone who works in games understands the situation.

"Stop releasing crap so my crap will sell!"

From an economic viewpoint, the onus should be on the stores (for their own best interest). Say that as a store you decide to only offer quality, regardless of whether its hardcore or casual. You choose what to stock based on reviews (either internal or external/meta) and let your customers know this: "All our games are hand-picked to be good" with good meaning above a 70 on metacritic or something. While that would first look like shooting yourself in the foot because of decreasing consumer options, by increasing consumer confidence you could then offer good obscure games as well. Ultimately, you'd have more sell-through because all of your inventory would move (instead of hoping that Carnival Games nth sells off its two copies that are occupying shelf-space), and you'd have more return casual buyers who don't want to invest time in researching games when they could just pick up something interesting from your store. The publishers might not like it, but if you got enough loyalty from your customer base, then you'd be able to through your weight around a little more. I can imagine that some publishers would definitely be down with this idea, because then they wouldn't have to compete with LazyPortedSoftware Inc, and there'd be more incentive to produce quality games (esp. for casuals because right now a quality casual game is easily lost in the flood).

Why no retail chain has ever attempted something like this I don't know. Talk about a way to differentiate yourself.

It is amazing how everyone is always ready to make excuses for the WII. Of course Carnival Games would struggle to find an audience because it is a crappy idea. You want to know what is wrong with the WII? The WII-mote. If Nintendo would stop trying to find ways to use the WII-mote in a game and instead concentrating on better graphics, story and gameplay they would be fine.
All they think of is "How can we squeeze a WII-mote functionality into the game?" "I know let's make you spin it around to open doors" or "swing it to throw grenades" or "push it back and forth to punch" Meanwhile the game looks and plays like crap with glitches, bad animation and low level graphics.Sure Carnival Games is a perfect game for the WII-mote. But who cares? Why should I play some half- @$$ed game Nintendo and their followers came up with just so I can swing the WII-mote around and point at the screen? But I have a feeling I just wasted my time writing this.

Maybe with so much competition in the crap category, studios will begin to make games of higher quality ala Okami, and No More Heroes

Wii's shovelware == cholesterol for the system.