Bowling Isn't So Hard (Wii)

I have yet to understand why there isn't a full fledged, PBA licensed bowling game out for the Nintendo Wii yet. The only remotely decent bowling game was free and came packaged with the Wii in the Wii Sports title.

I should say there have been quite a handful of tries to date, but with scores like these on Metacritic, one has to wonder what developers are thinking creating such awful games on a platform built for playing this exact kind of game.

Wii Sports' version of bowling is one of the most fun games on the Wii today still. Even after two years of releases, Wii Sports dominates the sales charts. Now, that may not be a fair statistic since it comes with every Wii, but the other top games are Mario Kart, Super Smash Brothers and Zelda; games that don't even use motion control (besides steering in Mario Kart).

Two years after it's release, most people still talk, and play, Wii Sports when they bring out their Wii-motes. Bowling is most likely the first game they play. So is a good bowling game, as well as a good tennis game, golf game, or baseball game for that matter, really under the developers radar for solid development and marketing?

Or does the fact that the target of Nintendo's console is squarly aimed on children and non-gaming adults hurt good, solid development of titles like this. AMF Bowling: Pinbusters and Brunswick Pro Bowling (as linked here) make you wonder that when reviews constantly refer to Wii Sports Bowling as being superior that developers are just missing the point entirely.