Thoughts While Reading China Warrior Review

Maybe it's just me, but I'm thinking Gamespot's Wii division right now is a lot like a baseball closer whose team is in the midst of a streak of blowouts and never gets into a save situation. Every time some crappy game comes out for the Virtual Console, Gamespot feels a need to review it just to get its bullpen some innings. Even for games that are quite good (Ocarina of Time), is it really necessary to review it for the Wii when it was already reviewed when it came out the first time for the Nintendo 64? Either it's emulated properly or it isn't, but since the VC has a pretty flawless track record for getting emulation right, even that's a moot issue.

Of course, this diarrhea of the pen on Gamespot's part speaks to a greater issue with the Wii, namely that there just aren't any games for it that aren't at least a decade old and sourced from somewhere else, much less any that are actually worth playing. It really doesn't augur well for the long-term success of Nintendo's experiment that the best Wii games thus far have been the pack-in Wii Sports and some SNES games.

Call me crazy, but I think the Wii's going the way of the Gamecube if Nintendo doesn't get its ass in gear.