Zumba Fitness tops UK charts for fourth week in a row

@Fire Walk With Me

Yeah? Well we've got baked beans.... with SAUSAGES in!

Screw haute cuisine when there's baked beans and mini suasages on toast.

@Bobrek

I would like to be able to mention cornish pasties, yorkshire puddings and scottish fa(gg)ots without having to work around the filter. >_<

Curse your american slang words being the same as our food names.

@Bobrek

Aw shut up, ya big fanny.

@Fire Walk With Me You're quite right, there are way too many Burger Kings and MacDonalds in UK.

@baby sea tuna

Yes terrible. Meanwhile, obesity rates in the US have hit 30% and higher.

@CaptainProtonX

Not to get all soapboxy, but the average American's eating habits are so far out of whack due to lopsided USDA regulations, lack of advertising standards, lack of genuine nutritional education, and corporate welfare for companies like Coke, Frito-Lay, Nabisco, etc. that purchasing some lackluster shovelware based on a fleeting (or already fled) fitness trend is not going to solve that problem.

@Lerkero

Simple. KIDS.

They love their transformers. They are not like us older generations, who read reviews, and know movie tie-ins are generally, well, abysmal.

@DigitalEmporer

And also have a knee-jerk cynicism to properties that trade on our sense of nostalgia. Or at least we should by now.

@Pure Black World Tendency

I wish there was some real metric to track the descrepancy between how many copies of the software (on in the Wii Fit Board's case, hardware) are sold and how many copies are actually being *used.*

@ravissimo

I think the issue that most "hardcore" gamers take umbrage with is the quantity vs. quality approach to these sorts of games. If it was a widely recognized "casual-but-actually-good" game like Dance Central up there, I think a lot fewer people would complain than some cheapo fad cash-in like Just Dance or Zumba or Carnival Games. Couple this with the fact that companies like Ubisoft rake in metric assloads of money on shovelware but then refuse to turn any of that capital around to fund projects like Beyond Good and Evil 2 or I Am Alive and you can see why we grumble.

@baby sea tuna

ahh, i see what you're saying. i agree with that. instead of funding other projects, they just rake in the money on the shovelware and keep the profits. what i would give for beyond good and evil 2 to be released! at least i have the HD version on XBLA to keep me company for the time being.

I can only hope that all the Wii owners that were completely new to video games are learning how to decipher between a quality game and shovelware. there needs to be a simpler rating website that caters to some new gamers that aren't on joystiq day to day to find quality games. metacritic is perfect for gamers, but there needs to be something more akin to the ease of use of rottentomatoes but for games. perhaps then we'll see more savvy consumers and won't see the shovelware getting priority over quality games.