That's a bitch slap to the Genesis :/

If anyone is wondering why there's so much Wii hate maybe it has to do with the annoying controls and incredibly outdated graphics? Just a thought.

"Having played the "hit people in the head with the cannonball with six-axis" game in heavenly sword, I think a well done "curve bullets with the wii-remote" mechanic in a game could be awesome (as long as it wasn't the whole of the experience, etc.

C'mon Mr. Wanted guy, it took me three seconds to come up with an awesome wii game idea based on your licensed property."

I heard one of the guns in The Conduit has that very mechanic as a secondary feature.

There's been quite a surge of quality 3rd party games that have come out for the Wii in the past 3 months. In fact my Wii library has fattened up considerably in the last 45 days. House of the Dead Overkill was one of the most fun games I've played in a long time. I haven't played Madworld yet, but I"m gonna be getting in the near-future. I'm also debating whether to get the DS version of the new Crystal Chronicles game or the Wii version.

Then you got really unique games like Deadly Creatures, Trauma Center, Rune Factory Frontier and the upcoming Little King's Story. Seriously, there's plenty of quality third party Wii games out there, and have yet to be released, and I"m not gonna waste my breath mentioning them. But I'm gonna set this straight once and for all:

Ya know why you got all this shovelware on the Wii? Okay, say you're a ho-hum nobody little game developer that's just trying to make a quick buck. What console do you make your game for? The ones that are more expensive to code for and have a lower install base? Or the one that's the easiest (and cheapest) to code for and has a massive install base? You don't have to be a neurosurgeon to figure this out.

Now, to drive a stake into the heart of the notion that third parties aren't taking the Wii seriously, allow me to show you this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUA-uTPpD_A

You see, when Capcom saw how successful the Wii was, they knew what time it was. They went to Sony, and they said, "Hey, sorry, but we wanna make money, so we're gonna make the full-fledged sequel to one of the hottest gaming franchises in Japan right now for the Wii, but I guess we can keep making games for the PSP."

The ultimate indictment of this "graphics are king" mentality could be summed up in one sentence: Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G was the best-selling game in Japan in 2008. A PSP game outsold EVERY other game for EVERY other platform. Games that touted epic stories and hyper-realistic graphics were beaten out by a game with NO plot, and the graphical capabilities below the level of a PS2.

So, much like most of this sensationalist crap we hear about all of the gaming platforms, it's mostly just sound and fury, signifying nothing.