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Some recent magazine (EGM or Game Informer, not sure which, thumbed through it at the store) had an article on this very topic. According to industry insiders, the fact that bad, low-budget games exist for a system only means it's doing very well. If Nintendo can afford to give stuff like Ninjabread their official Nintendo Seal of Quality, they're obviously making more money than they know what to do with. It's the same with the DS: Nintendo actually owns so much of the hand-held market they can afford to let barely passable games like Bratz or whatever get released without worrying about losing their market position.
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It was EGM, and it was meant to be a joke, I think. The reason why you're seeing so much shovelware on Wii so early in its life (and not on PS3/Xbox 360), is because these shovelware developers are just porting over their games from PS2 to Wii. Currently, PS3/Xbox 360 development costs are too costly for shovelware developers to mass release their crap on.
Also, the Official Nintendo Seal of Quality was removed years ago; it's now just the Official Nintendo Seal, to authorize that a game has been licensed by Nintendo.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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