How well third party CORE games really sells on Wii ? -Read this-

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Angelv577 said:
Call of duty world at war received great reviews on Wii platform, over 80+ in review score and still, do not manage to sell 1.5 million. Yes maybe the game has less features than the HD version, but it we considered that COD world at war was the best FPS on wii platforma and was released at the same time with the HD version, it still way above. In the rest of the game, HD user has way more options in third parties core games, we can't buy it all, but i don't think Wii user has too much options for buying third parties core games.

Call of Duty also has a large established fan base, and those fans will buy the console that has the best versions of Call of Duty, and that goes double when you consider that the Wii got Modern Warfare two years late.  Almost everyone interested in World at War would already have an HD console, and they aren't going to buy a Wii to play a game they can easily get on a console they already have; while many Wii owners have probably never heard of Call of Duty.

Third parties are having trouble on Wii, but they have been stacking the deck by releasing their biggest and best games on the HD consoles, which lures their audience to those consoles, making it easier to sell their other games; Nintendo was (and still is) the only company releasing AAA content on the Wii, so the audience is based on people who like their games, which is why Nintendo can do so well on its home turf, it really is their audience.  If third parties had supported the Wii with AAA exclusives right from the start, they wouldn't have this problem now.