I know the Wii’s success was a surprise to almost everyone in the development industry (especially those who allocate money to projects), but I thought by this point, we’d be seeing some quality games come out for it. And I read some comments this week about how it was a novelty – people bought it, played Wii Sports, and it started gathering dust immediately. I compared it to my much-traveled DS over the last six months on Game Rankings…

For the DS:
1 90+ game (Phantom Hourglass)
5 80-89 games (counts the two Pokemon versions)
8 70-79 games

For the Wii:
2 90+ games (Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime 3)
0 80-89 games
9 70-79 games

And then compare that to the Xbox 360 (which I don’t have)
2 90+ games
16 80-89 games
I don’t even know how many 70-79 games

And again, I know the development pipeline for the Xbox 360 has the advantage of that huge lead time and all. But when do we start getting some decent games for the Wii? I don’t think anyone knows how this will play out — but I’m really curious to see what happens when I run that query again in six months.