The year of Wii Shovelware

[Jrecee]

HOLY CRAP. If you think the aisles of bestbuy and walmart are littered with 19.99 budget crap now wait until you see what's in store for the holiday season! Release dates on ign:

http://wii.ign.com/index/release.html

Highlights include:

*Real Heroes: Firefighter
*Speed Zone - from the brilliant minds at Detn8 games
*Paws & Claws Pet Vet
*Cruise Ship Vacation Games
*Horse life adventures
*Price is Right 2010 edition (for those of you who wanted more after the 2009 edition!)
*Where's Waldo Fantastic journey - You thought waldo ran out of steam in 1993? Guess again! Someone found out they had the license to make a game about him, so they're gonna make a game about him!
*Charm Girls Club: pajama party

And last but not least, destined to be a future classic:

*101-in-1 Party Megamix

[Budsmoka]

I tottaly want to get a wii now.

[Dakinggamer87]

Yeah, no kidding.. It is a shame when I go to scan the aisles of Target and Best Buy to see nothing but shovelware aside from less than 5-10 titles worthwhile at a time..

[Anayo]

Five years ago I could have never predicted that such insipid games would even exist.

[J T]

A casual gamer and his money are soon parted.

[brickiemart]

Sadly, it's really just business as usual for the Wii.

[corn619]

Question is, do people really buy this crap?

[RCBH928]

I wonder too if people actually buy this kind of stuff
and do companies like best buy profit in sales?

I am aware of the grandma or daddy who looks at a nice looking game and buys it for his kid, but how many of those people do exist?

Real Heroes : Firefighters graphics looks psx-ish , I bet some ps1/N64 graphics beat this game. How low can you go?

[Parn]

If they didn't sell, companies wouldn't continue releasing them. The Wii has marketed itself as the "casual gamer console" for people who aren't usually gamers, and so the gaming library for the console reflects that. The ratio of quality software versus shovelware is hilariously awful.

In the end though, the industry is here to profit, and shovelware is very profitable. The iPhone gaming library is very similar in this regard.

[PharmaceuticalCowboy]

My mom will probably buy half of those titles... her Wii collection is shit.