Yeah, it was definitely good at one time, since they seemed to actually do well to weed out stuff that might suck.

Now, while I do think that allowing a wide variety of games through is good, they should be a bit more strict about some stuff. Look at all the garbage (bratz, most movie games, most toy franchise games, etc. Stuff that does nothing but advertise/promote.) that came along for the gameboy advance. It actually makes it difficult to sift through and find the good games that may not be terribly popular. Same thing on the Wii. There may be some real neat games that few people know about that are buried in junk. I seems like they just want to be able to say that they have so many games and yeah, even bad games will sell and make them more money than being a bit more select and allowing games that meet certain standards through. It would give more developers more incentive to work harder to meet the criteria and have a much less of a burying effect.

So it seemed they cared at first, especially after the industry crashes, but there's pretty much no risk of that anymore, so they're just going for max profit and forget quality. Luckily, Nintendo does seem to care when it comes to first party games.

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