Why Do Wii Games That Flop Mean More?

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RolStoppable said:
Most of the time a Wii game that "flops" serves as reassurement for people who fear that big third party games may migrate to a Nintendo console due to the Wii's high installed base. I can't think of another good reason why some guys jump at every oppurtunity to point out low sales (even if it's going to come back and bite them in the ass a few months later when the game racked up respectable sales). This isn't only restricted to regular fanboys, but also includes game journalists.

If the Wii got all those games it already got, but didn't have these hardware sales and instead had an installed base of around 20m, there wouldn't be so much noise about third party "failures". There would be nothing to fear because a third place console wouldn't get better third party support anyway. And without that fear there wouldn't be a need to constantly jump at every oppurtunity to declare that the Wii won't get better third party games because the games already out didn't sell.

True.  This is why certain reviewers are giving the Conduit such low scores without the reviewer even connecting the game online.  This is because of their fears that if the Wii gets the shooters than their console of choice wouldn't have anything left. 

They think that if the give games bad reviews that no one will buy them and they're right.  This is why Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games sold only 357 copies.