What Are Wii Waiting For?

According to a recent Japanese report, around 67% of Wii owners have not played the console "in some time". After 11 million sales it might seem kind of shocking that two thirds of those consoles are sitting idle.

You know why that is, Nintendo?

BECAUSE 90% OF THE GAMES FOR IT ARE ABSOLUTE SHIT.

Their idea was sound - create a unique gaming experience. Not as much power as the Xbox 360 or PS3, but a revolutionary control method to get people more involved in the games.
Which should have been fine.
Unfortunately, games seem to be replacing content with motion controls.

Mini games.

The very word makes my flesh crawl.
You see someone on screen and have to move your arms to blow up a balloon. Why? What is the reason you're racing three other people to blow up a balloon? Or you have to balance something on your head. What the hell for? And how does that relate to the blowing up of balloons? And when you complete the selection of seperate tasks you've been assigned you get to...repeat the entire process again.
Woo-bloody-hoo.

Nintendo's attitude of late has really been pissing me off. Firstly, they claimed that nobody is interested in long games any more. Now for a company which used to release really good dungeon crawl Zelda titles, this seems like a strange move. But to someone (like me) who wants their £40 to buy them a little more than 6 hours play time, it's also a hellish oversight.
Especially when you see their attitude toward online gaming on the Wii. Don't even get me started on their old claim that nobody is interested in online gaming - I see 1.5 million Halo 3 players who would disagree.

Next came their claim (and this is a good one) that "Gamers were bored before Wii", although they also say that we "didn't know it yet". Excuse me? I don't recall being bored with the games I play. If I was bored of them I wouldn't play them. I'll tell you what I am bored of though - crappy stupid cutesy cartoon graphic mini-games. So if that's all you're offering then I guess I am bored after all.

People like me have been supporting Nintendo for almost 20 years. We are the people who fought wave after wave of bad guys to rescue the princess in Zelda on the SNES (a huge game with a lot of play time). We are the people who completed Mario Kart on every difficulty level and then went on to countless multiplayer battles (another huge amount of game time). We are still around, and we will still be around long after the new players get bored and move onto something else.

We may not be Nintendo's target demographic these days, but we are dedicated fans who have stood by their technologically inferior 8th generation console to the hilt, while others were claiming the 360 and PS3 would devour it. Our opinions are as valid, if not more, than people who have come in on the strength of a gimmick.

I know people who have sold their Wii's because of these reasons, but I refuse to. I remain hopeful that a developer somewhere is going to release something and surprise us all in terms of decent gameplay and intuitive motion controls.

Please don't disappoint us any more.