The past two years I haven't liked Nintendo

[A Black Falcon]

Well, you could start by taking out games that are, by all accounts, dreadful, like Nitrobike and Speed Zone.

Speed Zone is a futuristic racing game, so being realistic, I'm going to get it someday, when I find it for $5 or something. That is one of my favorite game genres after all... I generally find futuristic racing games at least tolerable; I've played a lot of them, and can't think of one that I'd call an awful game.

As for Nitro Bike, it's from the people who did Excitebike 64 so not-so-great or not I kind of want to see it... maybe not, if it really is that bad, but I kind of want to.

It's hardly just NOA, although they have passed up a few games that I might be interested. It's Nintendo as a whole. Once the Wiifit/sport/whatever lineup took off, that seems to be all their really interested in and even that only to the degree that they have to be. They just don't seem to care anymore, far less than it seemed during the Wii's first two years where they were releasing and announcing a slew of top-tier titles.

Oh they care, they care to count the giant vaults full of money that they keep filling. :D

Also I know you and I don't care about them, but are you really not counting things like Wii Fit, etc? Multi-million-selling games that are helping them in one of their key goals with the Wii, succeeding with people who have not previously played games much?

I do agree that making those games has diverted resources that would otherwise have been spent on making more games gamers want, so Nintendo has somewhat disappointed this generation, but really I would argue that third parties have been even more disappointing. Nintendo at least has released some great AAA games on the Wii; third parties... very few. As I said, that's pretty stupid of them when the Wii is the blowout generation winner (DS aside) and a lot of third parties are losing money on the massive costs of HD game development... but then they put like a C team on the Wii, make a rail shooter, have it sell mediocrely, and then act like that's a sign that third party games won't sell on the Wii. It's kind of stupid.

(On that note, other rail shooters on the Wii, such as Target Terror (only for very cheap), Ghost Squad, the two Resident Evil Chronicles games, etc, also could go onto my list, perhaps)

Now? It's a dry wasteland, as worse as there's ever been on a Nintendo console. There's three games from Nintendo right now that I care about and two of them are franchise entries and the other is a sequel.

I understand the sentiment, but you just go too far. There are three huge games coming from Nintendo in just the next few months, and don't know anything yet about the second half of the year, but they'll have more then... this should be one of the Wii's best years, first party wise. Also, looking at that list of mine there, each year's list is longer than the one before its is. That's kind of a good sign I think, total-games wise at least.