Red Blaster said:
lulz
X-Squad's pretty shit of course. But it at the very least has a semblance of production values put into it, Paul Newman even voiced one of the characters. I don't see how it's comparable to the likes of say Ninjabread Man, Jenga, Target Terror and such others that have permeated the Wii library to this point.
I can't believe I'm going to defend Wii on its third party support, but you're being pretty disingenuous with your argument. If "production values" make something "not shovelware", then fine... but I don't believe you've played X-Squad, because if you did you'd know the production values were like 50 cents.
You use things like Ninjabread Man on the Wii side... there's a PS2 version too. So what does that say?
I'd say things like Gravity Games Bike, Army Men: Green Rogue and Arctic Thunder are all as bad as what you listed on the Wii side, and they all came out in similarly early periods of PS2 life.
No, the argument should be made not about shovelware (which follows any lead platform like maggots on a rotting corpse), but in the amount of quality third party support. In this regard, Wii is a laughable disaster compared to what PS2 managed to put together (particularly toward the end of ITS first year, vs. the end of Wii's first year). Nintendo has definitely done its best to fill the gaps in (Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime III, Fire Emblem) but third parties have not been behind it quite yet.
Sorry, but the shovelware argument is dumb.