The Industry being stubborn

[Reasonable]

LordTheNightKnight said:
"According to this site CoD:WaW sold around 1.5 on Wii and Reflex less than 1M - that's not good enough given the install base vs the sales on HD consoles."

Both those versions lack local multiplayer aside from the rail shooter co-op. So it's not a valid comparison until no other factors that lower sales are out of the equation, which is not happening yet.

Why weren't those games the same experience, though?  That's the point.  The Wii isn't the best platform for those titles.  You're not going to get a compariosn because the Wii isn't really the best console to host them.

Last gen you had PS2 with support for most genres pretty well, even including a few decent selling FPS.  You had Xbox with a limited library and some great FPS success and you had PC for most FPS/online, RTS, and high end graphical/online gaming.

This gen you've got the Wii for 'pure' games as I like to think of them like Mario, Wii Sports, etc. plus lots of fun, casual titles, weak support for FPS/online and hardcore graphical titles, the HD consoles which offer strong support for FPS/TPS/online and graphical high end titles (for a console) and PC with a shift to MMO/Strategy.  It's a fragmented market and it's not going to come together around a single, dominant console for a majority of genres, which is why the Wii gets essentially ignored for many titles/genres driven by third party developers.