Why do most third party publishers ignore the Wii completely ?

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nitekrawler1285 said:
Because most assume that Wii owners aren't interested and rightly so. The wii competes on new values that don't mesh well with the other consoles. Shoe horning it in doesn't really work

Nintendo made the Wii to compete with disinterest in videogames. Most Publishers and developers don't understand how to reach an audience that doesn't already play videogames.

Wii is also underpowered for multiplatform development.

You need to ask is why don't developers make appealing games for the Wii audience instead of why don't we get games that will be gimped and no one is interested in on the Wii.

The only problem with that line of thinking is the assumption the Wii doesn't have enough gamers that would buy those games. No More Heroes is not an expanded audience game. It's also Suda 51's bestselling game, and is getting a sequel. If there wasn't an audience for those games, it would not have sold that well.

And that's just a niche example. Call of Duty games get almost no marketing on the Wii, and are still selling great.

So there is an audience for those games. Developers just refuse to see that and throw games that are gimped by choice, not by tech (Dead Space Extraction).