Why do most third party publishers ignore the Wii completely ?

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Silentium said:

Hmmm, my thoughts...

1. Quality third party games like Batman and GTA won't do well on Wii.
2. By developing games for Wii they would kind of admit that they had bet on the wrong horse.
3. Some weeks ago our school went to a university and a programming student said that the Wiimote is very tricky to programme, furhtermore developers don't get much help by Nintendo in doing so (seriously: I don't know if this is true).
4. Porting a game to an inferior console would consume much time and money which (maybe) doesn't pay off because of Reason 1.

 

edit: I'll use this opportunity to ask something: How do I create a My Games (owned) list here on VGchrtz? I beg for a step for step guide for dummies )=

I am pretty sure I have read quite a few articles from 3rd party devs, saying that Nintendo lent help to help them understand the wii and its capabilities... I am pretty sure Eric Nofsinger from HVS said so as well somewhere out on the interwebs.