To a certain extent they're correct in that Wii ports (in general) have not been selling as well as they have on the PS3; and some of this can be blamed on the popularity of The Legend of Zelda, Wario Ware, Wii Play and Wii Sports (Nintendo's biggest first party games on the Wii). One of the problems is that some of these third party games haven't been well reviewed (gamerankings.com): Marvel: Ultimate Alliance: 75.0% (Wii) 81.4% (PS3) Call of Duty 3: 69.3% (Wii) 80.7% (PS3) Need for Speed Carbon: 65.4% (Wii) 78.6% (PS3) Another main factor is that a lot of people who bought the Wii did so because they wanted different gameplay experiences; Red-Steel has sold (reasonably) well for its quality mainly because people wanted to sword fight with the Wiimote. Finally, I don't think you can discount the virtual console ... Currently 65 games have been released in North America ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_(North_America) ) and I wouldn't be too surprised to find out that the average Wii gamer has bought a handful of Virtual Console games they loved rather than a mediocre third party Wii game.
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