Why do most third party publishers ignore the Wii completely ?

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HappySqurriel said:

tyig said:
Wii is lower is specs than xbox1, has no audience for the great games and technology does not go backwards.

The problem I have with most arguments people have against the games not being "Successful" on the Wii is that if you look at the sales more than 50% of FPS games on the XBox 360 probably lost the publisher significant amounts of money; and they could have produced multiple Wii games of similar quality that each would have seen similar sales and made a healthy profit rather than producing these forgotten FPS games. My favourite example of this at the moment is F.E.A.R 2 which I bought for $10 in a bargain bin and had higher production values, was of higher quality than any third party effort on the Wii to date, and it received more marketing than most Wii games; and it didn’t even sell 500,000 copies on the XBox 360 even though “everyone” wants FPS games on the XBox 360.

Most publishers seem to be chasing the success of other companies and bleeding money from it, rather than taking the risk and producing something that stands out on a platform.

50% a pretty startling figure if it's correct. How many of these HD only publishers are having financial troubles? Like is there any site that has info on how many of these HD only developers are drowning in red ink?

It probably explains why there's so much downloadable content for every game--anything to help soften the blow.

I imagine a lot of these companies are going to go tits before the transition to motion control has completed, sort of like how lots of companies died in the transition from 2d to 3d.