Dear Mr. Game Developer, Here's How to Tap Into the Wii - An Open Letter

[Legend11]

c0rd said:

Legend11 said:
Grampy,

On a console where Carnival Games, Game Party, Deca Sports, Smarty Pants, and others trounce most third-party hardcore games on the system why in your opinion should they take more risk, spend more money, and go against what is selling for third-parties on it? On a system where Wii Sports and Wii Play completely dominate sales and are very likely the reason why many people buy the console why do you feel developers should instead make games that the majority never bought the console for?

		Mario Kart Wii		Nintendo			13.42m
		Super Smash Bros. Brawl		Nintendo			8.26m
		Super Mario Galaxy		Nintendo			7.81m

		The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess		Nintendo			5.07m
		Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock		RedOctane			3.86m

Super Paper Mario

Nintendo

2.66m

Sonic and the Secret Rings

Sega

2.04m

These are far from "mini-game" games, and they have done very well. There just aren't that many other popular games on the system like this, so the ones that have sold very high (2mil+) are few in number.

 

Nintendo games are an exception on the Wii (do you think if another company made a Kart game for the Wii that it would have over 12 million in sales)?  Do you think if EA or Ubisoft released Wii Music that it would be over 2 million right now?  Also correct me if I'm wrong but I think this "open letter" was to third-parties, but if it was meant for Nintendo then my bad.  And when looking at third-party games the number of casual hits outnumber the hardcore ones.