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Actually Wii does have some pretty good games coming out: up to 4 player Co-Op New Super Mario Brothers
With no online multiplayer. Which means unless you've got four friends and four remote and control stick combinations, your SOL. This is horribly, horribly dated in this day and age and neuters what should have been a great feature.
Not to mention it's New Super Mario on the Wii; I wasn't too impressed with the DS game, so with the co-op neutered I'm not exactly in a lather.
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Super Mario Galaxy 2 coming out this holiday
I'll end up buying it, but I'll be honest; I'm not as excited about this as I should be another Mario game. It's basically the last game with Yoshi. More of the same is usually fine (I buy enough sequels to attest to that), but I expected something else from Mario. This is the first time that I can remember where the main series basically just piggybacked the last game; the main series usually carries innovation in each title. Something new. It generally HAS to or the series would have gone downhill a long time ago; it doesn't exactly have much in the way of story or anything else to fall back on.
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Metroid Prime: The Other M out by next years holiday season
I'm very excited about this game, but as you've mentioned it's going to be a while before it comes out; in the meantime the pickings are slim.
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a Zelda Twilight Princess sequel by next years end
Another "next year" game.
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Resident Evil doesn't seem too bad for Wii (Darkside Chronicles and Umbrella Chronicles), but other than that, lack of third-party support and horrendous titles is just ugh.
Umbrella Chronicles was good, but it had it's issues. Which I hear got a bit worse in the Darkside Chronicles builds so far. It's sad, but Umbrella Chronicles is one of the only third party titles that sold decently.
Also, as mentioned, the third parties don't bother with the system because there's no money to be made. Fanboys whined that there weren't any M rated games for the system and if there were the hardcore games the hardcores would buy them and prove the systems not a waste. Then they got egg on their face, because those M rated titles came and sold like fried garbage.
I can't blame the third parties anymore, because this generations has just proven that the market for the non-kiddy or shovelware games simply isn't there.
This will probably be the last Nintendo system I ever buy within the first four years of it's lifecycle. Next go around I'll end up getting it like I did the Gamecube; when it costs a pittance and there are actually a decent number of good games to pick up on the cheap.
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When you think about it though that has always been Nintendo's goal to appeal to the casual gamers and kids. Theirs been talk that the next console Nintendo has will be similar to the PS3 and Xbox 360 but I don't think Nintendo will be able to attract the hardcore gamers like Sony and Microsoft will continue to do.
It's a nearsighted goal. These people may buy the system, but they don't buy the games. They pay the ticket to get in but then they don't buy anything once inside. And then they leave and don't look back.
The casuals are horrifyingly fickle.
Also, I'm not sure they'll be able to get the hardcore crowd next go around either. They've pissed off a lot of their core fanbase and people who came in expecting a revolution in gaming. That's a bad taste that might well end up sticking.