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Sega Not Giving Up On Mature Wii Games
Sega has recently taken a few attempts at developing games for the Wii that were targeted at adults rather than kids. House of the Dead: Overkill and Madworld haven't been incredibly popular, but they've done well enough to turn a profit. In Sega's eyes, this makes mature-themed games for the Wii a successful experiment, or at least one they're willing to continue. Other companies are looking to get into the act as well. EA will be releasing M-rated Dead Space: Extraction for the Wii, and Bethesda has a project in the works too.
Bethesda needs to stick to developing new content for Fallout 3 and Oblivion (and, preferably, developing Fallout 4 and and new Elder Scrolls game). Every day they're developing a crapfest for this kid's toy is a day wasted and an insult to the real gamers who have kept you in business all these years.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
My brother has hit the same problem. At first the whole Wii-mote concept seemed cool. Looked gimmicky to me so I skipped on it and bought an Xbox 360 (despite me traditionally being a Nintendo person - I've literally owned every home console they've made up until the Wii. I've owned lots of the others too, but I ALWAYS had the latest Nintendo system).
It's funny how every single post from MS astroturfers (or anti Wii trolls, whatever) start all exactly in the same way : I'm the biggest Nintendo fanboy of all, but this time, I magically passed on Nintendo just because. Yours starts exactly as these astroturfers posts.
He liked it for a while. WiiFit was cool and such and he got a few more games like that (Resident Evil 4 he liked), but now the system is just sitting in a corner at his house unused every time I go over there. Any time a new video game commercial shows that looks cool he always makes the comment "You know that looks awesome. Wait till we get to the end of the commercial; I bet it's out on 360 and PS3 but not Wii.". And he's always right. He's not a hardcore gamer by any stretch of the imagination.
So he's part of the strange minority of Wii owners whose Wii is collecting dust because they noticed every cool game on the HD consoles, but managed to miss all the games supposedly made for them on the Wii, like the OP's mentionned MadWorld or HotD Overkill.
You can't imagine how stupid these gamers look, managing to miss the games made for them. Especially when the people that don't know anything about gaming are the ones buying a lot of games for the Wii. With the few games people like your brother buy, that means the people clueless to gaming are buying lots of games to compensate, and for the Wii to reach its insane number of games sold.
I guess they will be pleased to remove the dust on their Wii as lots of games for them are out this year already, and a lot are to come yet.
I guess he went to buy the Conduit, MadWorld, HotD..., right?
If your brother is real, his Wii is not collecting dust anymore since a long time ago. So why did you forgot to mention that?
Even when he's got a game he wants to play through he might put in an hour or two per week tops. Still though, the Wii's kiddified games eventually just don't cut it. It'd be like if every movie that came out from now on were from Pixar. Sure they're "fun for the whole family!", and I can say that I enjoy them quite a bit, but realistically SOMETIMES I want something that's a bit more mature.
What is the problem? The Wii is your brother's console, and you are the one who bought an HD console, so why the complaining?
I agree that the Wii's kiddified games don't cut it, that's why they mostly fail, like EA "All Play" series. Serves them right.
Fortunately, Nintendo put lots of good games on the console, which explains why they run with all the profits.
And people who are not hardcore gamers don't have lots of time to put in games every week, so your brother's behaviour is not shocking at all in this context.