I think you summed up your position perfectly, you don't like the games out and since they don't please YOU, then support must be lacking. People (Not sure if you were in this group or not) were dooming Wii before it came out, and turns out they had no idea what you were talking about. Nintendo has been doing great, and so have 3rd parties who have actually took time to actually create games for Wii (Capcom, EA, Ubisoft to name a couple). Is it perfect? No but things are getting better, we are finally starting to see people like High Voltage, EA, and THQ start to take more risks with Wii with games like Conduit, Boom Blox (Oh noes, one of those casual games how horrendous), and Deadly Creatures.
Well we can swing that pendulum either way -- if you are satisfied, then there's not a drought, etc etc. ad infinitum. As you mentioned, droughts are relative. But anyway, I personally didn't doom the Wii, but I did say "show me the money" and thus ensued a moving benchmark of wait for this or that event, and using titles like Red Steel as proof of perpetual AAA title support. When that didn't pan out, they moved on to the safest and only other future likely-AAA titles they knew of including Mario and SSB that were still a year-plus away. One couldn't have a valid point because [insert future titles and events here] was coming. The answer was always around the corner. Apparently still is.
Now I will give you a point, many of us were wrong when it came to what to expect from 3rd Parties. I personally thought we were going to see a bit more risk being taken at this level, though that does not mean I am not pleased at all with the situation because there have been some surprisingly great Wii games (And it isn't just my opinion) from 3rd parties. Is it slower than I would like? Sure. Am I a bit disappointed? Yep, to a degree. Am I completely unsatisfied? Heck no because there have been pleasing games released by 3rd parties!
Ahhhhhhh. Finally. Sweet smell if validation. Such a rarity here.
Wii Ware is also showing extreme promise for more traditional and "hardcore" experiences but you don't even mention that. I'm sorry that you cannot see that the 3rd party situation is and HAS been improving over the last year and a half, especially over GC, but it is the truth. Now will we be seeing more traditional, ground-up, games for Wii from Third Parties? Well I have no idea, but that does not make the casual games any less valuable because they don't satisfy BigJim. It is a fascinating situation and it is ridiculous to start stating the sky is falling when the Wii and its concept are young.
I didn't say the sky was falling or anything bad about casual games. You've kinda run off with a false assumption there. I'm looking forward to Wii Ware, no doubt about it. I'm not banking on them to fill X-month-long gaps since so little is known about it, but anything is *some* help. I am jazzed about the possibilities, but we can't play possibilities. So yeah, it boils down to just another "wait for" talking point with a nebulous pending outcome. That record's been playing for the last 1.5 years. Heh.
Please look at the DS as a reference to how long it takes for 3rd Parties to actually start taking risks, it took close to 2 years before it got any substantial support. Now to be clear, I do NOT think the 3rd Party situation is perfect, but I think putting most of the blame on Nintendo is silly. It is kind of funny, perhaps the biggest budget title on Wii, Red Steel, showed right off the bat how 3rd parties can be successful. That was a game that Nintendo worked with Ubisoft on as well. Now who's fault is it really to not take a second jump? Both a 3rd Party AND Nintendo did their job, but 3rd parties still floundered in indecision and crappy ports.
D'oh! Red Steel again!
All I can say again is that this is a decade-plus-long problem. If you think that the clock should be "reset" because the DS and Wii are so different, we just disagree. I don't know who gets the majority of the blame for the issue, I just said Nintendo gets plenty. Additionally, ultimately the onus is on them to rectify it, one way or another, regardless of how it's divided up.
Hey! Don't forget about my post! This is specifically talking about console exclusives, but in terms of quality exclusives the Wii is right there with the XBox 360 for this time in its life cycle. Shocking I know.
Oh I didn't mean to forget you Kairon. The results seem kinda ho-hum across the board. LOL. A 75 rating is a bit subjective to them. I didn't count the number of 80+ rated titles (my own equally useless subjective benchmark for a flawed rating system) but I'll dig around when I get a chance. But I don't think any particular tastes are well accounted for, unless maybe if you're an FPS fan with an Xbox. (just a generalization since I didn't look yet.) It's possibly problematic across the board.
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