If you read the stickies you would know that the mods have already said that a game scoring A, AA, or AAA does not solely indicate the worth of that game. It's just a review. The worth of a game is personal, so it's silly to sit here arguing that we should all judge on that - we already know that, but when it comes to discussings scores, you can't just make one up.
However, if you really are that upset that Nintendo has basically failed to produce AAA games this generation, I think you need to take a deep breath and really think about what your expectations for the Wii are. Nintendo isn't regaining their throne, look at the amount of money they're making and really think "do they even want it?"
Microsoft and Sony have the sword of damocles hanging over their heads - they take a loss on hardware and fight a vicious war to bring high-end graphics and sound to the market, and to get third parties to produce the best games possible for their systems. They play a high stakes game where the prize is awesome visual quality, but the cost is the risk they take.
Nintendo doesn't play with the big boys any more, and you shouldn't expect them to. Games like Resident Evil 4 on the GCN didn't define the Gamecube, and on the Wii they will be even more rare. Expect lots of simple games, lots of somewhat flawed games that just miss the AAA marking, and a slight decline in game quality towards the end of the systems life, with an exit of third parties from the market and a Nintendo-games dominance within the next two years.
Is that a bad thing? No. Nintendo fans expect Nintendo games, this has always been the way, and it will continue to be the way, it's how Nintendo rolls, like it or not. If you want to have the system with the AAAs - back a system like the Xbox 360 that gets a ton of shots at them thanks to having the cutting-edge third party games, and the huge development budgets that come out of Microsoft.
Otherwise, be happy, and stop worrying about gamescores. Nintendo won't get its big one until Brawl or Galaxies comes out, with MP3 being another game I expect will pull a TP and get a dissapointing score - simply because, well, outside of controls, what innovation does it offer over MP2? You get a high score for innovating or doing something just outright impressive, all while keeping all the aspects of the game tight. Too many Wii games have just been unpolished.
Look at the decline in scores for Pokemon. Has the series gotten worse? No, but the tenth time I catch a Pikachu is not as fun as the first - you can never recreate the amazing experience that was playing Pokemon for the first time. There are games on the market now, like Gears of War, or PGR3, that I think have a "wow, this is cool" effect the first time you play them - I think Blue Dragon will be that way when you play it, kind of like your first time playing FF7. You can't go back though, and, well, as long as Nintendo isn't bringing something really *new* to the table, they aren't going to get those high gamescores.
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