Last year was owned by Nintendo with some great releases at the end of 2007, plus their E3 2007 excited many with classic franchises being introduced to the Wii, and then another being delayed for 3 months. Overall, Nintendo dominated. This year however, Nintendo did mediocre.

At the beginning of the year, Nintendo introduced a few new classics for the Wii like Super Smash Bros Brawl and Mario Kart Wii. They also introduced the new Wii Wheel peripheral, and they continued their OK play on the Wii Zapper. They also released Wii Fit, which continues to outsell other titles. Unfortunatly, most of this excitement ended at E3 2008. A lot of people and fanboys tuned in to watch Nintendo keep introducing good games, but they got overall, the exact opposite.

During E3, a few new titles that were exciting were announced like Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars, Call of Duty World at War for the Wii, and Animal Crossing: City Folk, but those were it. It may have been the lousy, hardly funny comedy that Reggie and friends attempted, but it was horrible. Plus this big announcement that we anticipated was only something we've been looking for since 2006: Wii Music. I'll admit that the drummer's appearence was nice, but that was all the excitment over Wii Music. What this E3 did was horrible. Because of their poor preformance at E3, no real gamer had anything to look forward to until the release of Call of Duty. Now we can play that for about 2 months, then play GTA for 4 more, and then we can wait on new and good games. Does that sound fun? To me, no it does not.

And E3 has always been the main event for big announcments, but Nintendo didn't give any big ones besides GTA on the DS. So who will dominate this year? Probably not Nintendo; they won't be introducing any good games that holiday shoppers want and don't already have.

So that's about it in short terms. Nintendo was on a 2 1/2 year streak, and now they have blown it, all because of E3. If they could blow it that easily, they do not deserve my good review. Maybe next year Nintendo, you can make at least a 1/2 year streak, and then continue that for a few more years. Do they stand a chance? Maybe, but we will have to see.

Last year was owned by Nintendo with some great releases at the end of 2007, plus their E3 2007 excited many with classic franchises being introduced to the Wii, and then another being delayed for 3 months. Overall, Nintendo dominated. This year however, Nintendo did mediocre.

At the beginning of the year, Nintendo introduced a few new classics for the Wii like Super Smash Bros Brawl and Mario Kart Wii. They also introduced the new Wii Wheel peripheral, and they continued their OK play on the Wii Zapper. They also released Wii Fit, which continues to outsell other titles. Unfortunatly, most of this excitement ended at E3 2008. A lot of people and fanboys tuned in to watch Nintendo keep introducing good games, but they got overall, the exact opposite.

During E3, a few new titles that were exciting were announced like Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars, Call of Duty World at War for the Wii, and Animal Crossing: City Folk, but those were it. It may have been the lousy, hardly funny comedy that Reggie and friends attempted, but it was horrible. Plus this big announcement that we anticipated was only something we've been looking for since 2006: Wii Music. I'll admit that the drummer's appearence was nice, but that was all the excitment over Wii Music. What this E3 did was horrible. Because of their poor preformance at E3, no real gamer had anything to look forward to until the release of Call of Duty. Now we can play that for about 2 months, then play GTA for 4 more, and then we can wait on new and good games. Does that sound fun? To me, no it does not.

And E3 has always been the main event for big announcments, but Nintendo didn't give any big ones besides GTA on the DS. So who will dominate this year? Probably not Nintendo; they won't be introducing any good games that holiday shoppers want and don't already have.

So that's about it in short terms. Nintendo was on a 2 1/2 year streak, and now they have blown it, all because of E3. If they could blow it that easily, they do not deserve my good review. Maybe next year Nintendo, you can make at least a 1/2 year streak, and then continue that for a few more years. Do they stand a chance? Maybe, but we will have to see.

If you've seen the first party and third party lineup for the Wii in 09, you would probably shit your pants.

E3 was pretty disappointing for us, but you forgot their media thing a few months ago.  Announcing Punch-Out!! and Sin & Punishment 2 was a surprise and 2009 is looking very good, perhaps the Wii's best year for core gamers.

This has not been a good year for the Wii critically, though financially, they couldn't be better. I would love to play a great game on the Wii again, but, yeah, that hasn't really happened recently.  I think next year's lineup will be excellent, with the hopes of a new Pikmin, as well as NMH2 and Sin & Punishment 2, The Conduit, Madworld, etc.

Yup, Nintendo had a bad year, one bad year and suddenly they're the butt of industry insider jokes again.
2009 could give some people a surprise, Nintendo's 09 lineup is looking pretty good already. Already we have surprise returns from old franchises and new IP's. And remember Nintendo leave very little time between announcements and shipping dates, so anything announced at GDC or E3 could see a release this year.