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Are Nintendo being boycotted?

NOTE TO READERS - Yes, this is more slamming THQ than any other developer, but, well, I'm sure you've found other games developers just as guilty.

I recently picked up Smackdown Vs. RAW 2008 for the Wii...
I have to say this, right now...
If this is THQ's idea of a joke, I'm not laughing.
Wii uses lose Cage Matches, Elimination Chamber matches, Table Matches and Ladder Matches, and by extension, TLC Matches, for no good reason, ESPECIALLY since the PS2 and PSP both have had full match type sets since 2006.
Effectively, They cut pretty much every match type which could show off the Wii's capabilities... even though they knew it could support them.
Next, the control system on both Wii and NDS has 'redundant button' syndrome, again for no good reason.
Again, we look to the PSP, and find that, yes, THQ had ALREADY done a control system which used less buttons... THQ, I don't accept the 'Exclusive Control System'... when you nerf the system... again to make the others look better.
Lastly, What you see and what you get...
The NDS has it's roster sliced, and pretty much no unlocks... plus the Main Event mode, under a different name... and THQ, Don't tell me otherwise.
The Wii, that gets officially Main Event mode, which is a thinly veiled version of Season Mode, apparently because, again, falsely, you apparently can't support 24/7 mode on a Wii.

OK, That's my rant against Smackdown Vs. RAW over.
What isn't over is the fact THQ lied to the press and other people in the industry when they effectively said that the Wii was sub-par... It couldn't give you the 'full WWE experience' the other consoles can.
Now, I admit, when you look at the numbers, it isn't truly in the Next Generation, but, well, That's no excuse to send it two generations back in how well you do support for it.
THQ does NOT support Virtual Console, which tells me something...
It's likely part of a boycott, within the industry, which is trying to tell Nintendo to bring out the 'real' Next-Gen console, a heavy beast of a console which has put millions of dollars behind one of two standards which are practically killing each other to sell software to the end-user.

If the Wii continues it's sales records, which are a different set of numbers to the ones the 'We don't support the Wii' developers want you to notice, then you'd see that it's selling like the proverbial hot cakes.
If I notice a game being released on PS3, X360 and Wii that, again, the Wii version falls far short of even the quality of games on the Playstation and N64, I will start complaining, since, yet again, some developers are making it seem like more powerful equals better.

You don't need 3.2 GHz processors and high-density discs to make a game good.
You just need gameplay, a good control system and a solid fanbase for the console and the game. Even the worst game will sell well then...
How do you think THQ are still selling their nerfed version of SvR 2008?