So, How Many Wii Games Are Any Good_
By Alex Chen | October 31, 2025
Picture the scene: your mum walks into GameStop. She walks to the Wii section, and picks out a game for your birthday. At random. What are the odds she picks a good one?
Let’s find out! Just like they did for both Xbox 360 and PS3 games, market research firm EEDAR have rounded out the trilogy [[link]] by tracking every Wii game’s Metacritic score and found how much of the system’s catalogue has been a hit with critics, and how much of it hasn’t.
https://kotaku.com/so-how-many-360-games-are-any-good-5172778
The PS3 and 360 were, for the most part, neck-and-neck. The Wii, however, is not. In short, the bulk of it’s catalogue is – as [[link]] we saw with the most popular console of the last generation, the PS2 – a minefield of shovelware, rubbish ports and more shovelware, with over half the system’s catalogue scoring a 65 or lower on Metacritic.
Things are just as bleak at the top end of the review spectrum. While 13% of 360 games scored 85 or higher, and 17% of PS3 games earned the same score, only 4% of Wii games achieved similar review aggregates. 4%! That’s dreadful.
None of this will be [[link]] new to many Wii owners, we know, but numbers are fun, and it was only fair to present the third and final of EEDAR’s reports.