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Legend11 on 03 March 2009
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For those that don't appear to get it...

1. The Wii may have the most third-party sales but it also has a lot more games being released for it in a typical month than either the 360 or PS3.

2. Those sales are overwhelmingly casual titles (Guitar Hero, Sonic & Mario, Carnival Games, My Fitness Coach, Carnival, etc, are casual)... The others are mainly licensed titles in which the Wii already has droves of them.

3. Wii games cost less to make but people seem to like throwing around numbers without actually backing them up. Is the 1/3 development cost for a hardcore game on the Wii vs. a hardcore one on HD? Or were the people talking about a casual game made for the Wii audience vs. a hardcore one for HD consoles?

4. Front loaded games vs. slow burners. Most games drop in price over time and depending on how many times the title is reordered the amount of profit per copy sold can drop drastically.

5. The affect DLC has on a game's profits. For example it's an established practice on HD consoles but on the Wii it really still is in it's infancy.

6. The game everyone throws around. Resident Evil 4, as the reason for making HD games was actually a budget title (debuted at £20) compared to HD titles.

7. You simply can't compare the Wii installed base 1:1 against the HD installed base when it comes to hardcore titles. I can assure you there are a lot more women, elderly, etc, in the Wii installed base which results in a much more diverse audience. So please enough with that kind of nonsense comparison.

8. The userbases are different in other ways as well. Simply put some people seem to believe that if you take any game from the HD consoles and sell it on the Wii it'll sell better. Please wake up and look at actual sales of games like Madden, Call of Duty, etc. The Wii may hold it's own for casual third-party titles but that is meaningless if what the people here are demanding is hardcore third-party titles.

9. Be happy with the games you have rather than constantly looking at the other side. There are games on Wii that I'm sure some HD owners would like such as Madworld, Zack & Wiki, and No More Heroes, but you don't see them whining about it.

10. For those thinking that third-parties focusing on HD development is an automatic death sentence need to stop with the nonsense. Some studios will close but some companies are doing very well. It's funny how some people choose to ignore the studios doing well because it doesn't fit their belief system about what third-parties should be doing.

11. Money hats... People can say what they want but if Microsoft or Sony or Nvidia or whatever company is willing to help finance third-party game development then more power to them and they deserve the games.

I could list even more things (such as a Japanese customer being different than a Western customer so the installed base there shouldn't be added in a 1:1 comparison, etc) but I imagine I'm just wasting my time since most people will choose to believe whatever they want to anyways. So good luck and have fun discussing this topic to death in what I'm sure will be many more threads like this one.