@xerostomia: That's the approach a lot of the 3rd parties have taken. Of course, going for every possible platform doesn't guarantee higher sales than having an exclusive title, of course, this is a game specific thing.
Ok, so, Wii games have long legs. Madden 09 is on track to pass 07 and likely will pass 08. There's one problem with new audience; if your game fails to deliver, they may not come back to the series, which is different from the core gamers. If you kick the core to the balls, it will come back to get kicked again, if it wouldn't hurt this time.
This is the reason why so much shovelware is sold, when the new audience turns away from the shovelware, the core will buy it again, if the shovelware were better this time.
As for Force Unleashed, there's a game called Lightsaber Duels, which have affected TFU sales on Wii. CW:LD seems like a lot better option for having some lightsaber action.
You can always search the sales numbers and calculate it yourself. Well, the Wii versions of multiplatform titles usually aren't "gimped", since they tend to be the PS2 versions, with tacked on new controls, so the better comparision in the cases may be PS2 versions sales.
Anyway, the third parties problem isn't Wii userbase dissing them, but the 3rd parties dissing Wii userbase. Quality 3rd party efforts usually have sold well.
Also the developement costs are less and royalties smaller on Wii, so the ten is being offset pretty well.
By the way, it's pretty odd how "the new users are dissing the 3rd parties" at the same time when "they don't know anything about games".
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Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
