Why do most third party publishers ignore the Wii completely ?

[LordTheNightKnight]

"While the sales of NMH might work for smaller studios those kinds of sales aren't going to cut it for larger dev houses that are looking for larger ROI."

You missed the point. It was that a niche game, that even most traditional gamers skip, sold BETTER on the Wii than that kind of game has sold on the systems more focused on those kinds of gamers (Gamecube and PS2).

"CoD has a lot of brand recognition. Beyond that most devs don't want the wii sell great over time chart. They want the MW2 on PS3/360 first week kinda chart."

Again, missed the point. Those games had almost no marketing, so sold slower because of that. With actual marketing, games with such brand recognition would sell even better.

"If that is considered an audience then most developers are going to close down because they wont have enough profit."

No, you're misreading what I meant by the audience. They can make plenty of money, and those are signs of this.

"The probem is that most devs wants their title to light up the charts. Wii titles have never done this with very little exception(Nintendo titles EA active)"

That is a myth, not only that few Wii games do that, but that it's more common with HD games (the unwritten implication here). It's mainly hits with any system that lights up the charts, and by depending on the HD systems, when only the hits sell enough to make a profit, they are going to close down because they won't have enough profit. You claim that will happen by developing for the Wii, when reports are developers are losing money for the other thing. You really should do your research.

"Beyond that I believe that any appealing game made for the Wii would sell far more than the meh port of multiplatform games that ppl seem to want."

That I agree.

"Hell other than RE:4 and COD how many niche games have we seen breach 1 million on Wii?"

Monster Hunter 3 almost did that, and even a minor release outside Japan would push it over the top.