i'm gonna have to disagree with you, scenester.  i get my fill of minigames from wario ware quite nicely, just as i have for the past eight years or so.  i would actually rather they leave the minigames on the cutting room floor in this case; i'm not sure it would open up any funds to be funneled back into the single player game, but it would at least give the project a tighter focus.
also: 
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