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So after reading the latest 'news-breaking' game for the Wii, I felt more then obliged to put down my pen (or keyboard), push my homework to one side and start up on a new piece of work.


What first brought this to my attention was EA releasing a Wii version of everyones favourite game, Monopoly! Wow, that's worth the time and effort for the entire 3 people that may consider buying such a blatant attempt to continue dumbing down the Wii's audience, that my grandmother could have probably coughed up a better idea in her sleep.


Several things that Nintendo have done as of recent have left me asking myself the same question, resounding in my head like the broken record Nintendo seem to keep playing. “What is Nintendo thinking?!”


Let's face it, compared to some of the titles that are coming out on other consoles at the moment, Nintendo aren't exactly at the top of that pedestal, especially now the hype of SSBB and MKWii has started to stop people wetting their pants.


Although saying this, Nintendo still tries to leave us hanging, with such vague release dates on most of their games, and most of them aren't given proper media coverage until a month before they are meant to be released (the very meaning of the term 'last minute'). Since Nintendo don't seem to care much about their audience and letting them no what games are coming out on their 'top of the range console', I started going into shops myself, trying to find games that interest me on the Wii shelves.


Instead, I am greeted with open arms of the latest 'Stroke the Pony', using the Wii's revolutionary remote to groom your horses to a spanking gleam!


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After putting the game back down and feeling the inner parts of my eyes burning at such blasphemy, the broken record is starting to play in my head again. Honestly, and this is coming from someone who hasn't worked with Nintendo for anything... THE WIIMOTE COULD BE PUT TO MUCH BETTER USE! Even if that is to swing it in such a way and angle that it hits some sense into whoevers job it is at Nintendo to accept such lame games to be put through production.


After several weeks of this, even the shop staff are beginning to spot me walking through the doors and slowly shake their head, as if I had just lost a loved one in a fatal car accident. In one last hope I take another quick scan of the shelves, looking behind every game, just in case I find one game that has somehow managed to slip behind all the others unnoticed and doesn't want to make me throw my Wii out of my window, deliberately onto the concrete floor waiting to meet it's inevitable doom.


Even whilst visualising this increasingly satisfying fantasy, my eyes start drifting to the PS3 and 360 sections, both of which have some incredibly good games that make me get the feeling I got when we where told MEGA-DONKEY'S years ago that Brawl was to be released in Europe.


(Yes I have a freeloader, but if that's what your thinking, and also laughed, planning to post that to 'generally outwit' me after you have finished reading, then you have missed the Nintendo •••• taking point.)


So after considering that eBaying or trading in my Wii would be much more effective then watching it smash into millions of tiny pieces (although a lot less satisfying), I start to think of things that could possibly be more fun then the current state of the Wii. Maybe a weird sword-come-lightsabre that I could use to start going on assassination missions. What? Oh your right, that's the same as No More Heroes, that is pretty much a failed attempt of trying to combine Grand Theft Auto and Dragonball Z.


Yes the game does have it's moments, but at the end of the day, it merely proves my point and backs me up further. (What a way to kick yourself up the backside, huh?) It goes to show that outside Mario, shoving all the characters in one game and watching them fight to the death, or race, that Nintendo have pretty much run out of creativity in the game creation area.


Yes, I know that the following thought is going through most of your heads:


“Nintendo is a family-friend gaming company!”


And don't we all know it. But did Nintendo not think that whilst they dueled it out with the other gaming companies (especially by releasing brand-spanking new technology) that they wouldn't pick up some serious gamers in the process, and might need to release something for them.


Oh, major screw up, they picked up LOADS of serious gamers, yet still choose to ignore their needs, eventually loosing out on customers. Well slap my thigh and call me grandma, let's just sit back and watch them go instead of pulling up our socks and doing something about it.

And yes, I know that alot of the games that are made for the Wii are not Nintendo's, but merely from developers who desgin their games to be played on Nintendo's console. But surely Nintendo have a say in what games they put on Wii format, and you know when to stem the flow of crap, and start putting some decent games out there.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that every single title for the Wii is complete rubbish and not worth your time, money or even breath, but to find these 5 or 6 games, you have to surf through a sea load of titles that would make even your little sister laugh when she played them. Of course, I topic like this is open to a huge opinion debate, as many people may differ in what they think, but i can safely say that I know there are more then a few of us who are a little more then ticked off at this.

You may just see me as some kind of 'scrooge', but this is an issue that Nintendo have seemed to have danced around, somehow managing to avoid, but with this latest monstrosity of a game that they consider to be the 'next big thing', it just had to be spoken about.


Do they honestly expect that all of their audiences are going to buy it. They must do if they let this go through, but I'm sitting here, wanting a game with a decent storyline, plot twists, good characters, and something worthwhile of my time, and instead I get to place my stupid dog on Mayfair and collect 200 when I pass go, something that millions of people have been doing already for decades, which leads me to something else that Nintendo seem to enjoy doing (more then taking their customers for granted).


They constantly revive the dead! Just when you think somethings ready to die, they bring out yet another one that is inevitably the same as the first one with the number '2' after the title.


Titles that have managed to perform this yet escape it are Pokemon, Mario Kart and Super Smash Brothers Brawl, but lets be completely sincere here, how long until people start realise that Nintendo are feeding them the same rubbish day in, day out, that when SSB4 is finally released, I think most people will have cottoned on, especially when 'Chuck Norris' is a playable character (but only after playing the game for 30 hours straight in a row). Some of us have caught up Nintendo, more then I think you have expected.