I think the most telling thing here is that those are pretty much the best efforts we've had from third parties on Wii, and they at best stand up to the average-decent HD games.
The simple truth is that there has never been a Wii third party game with equal or superior effort to an HD game. There are many reasons for this (both reasonable and ridiculous), but none of them change this basic truth.
I was reading something that I found via this website yesterday which had every single third party release from a major publisher. This was hundreds of games. Out of those hundreds of games I struggled to get into double figures for games that I wanted that weren't simple ports of games from previous generations. Take Two are a good example here. Aside from a very good port of Bully, the best they managed is Manhunt 2 and that was it. This is one of the biggest publishers on the planet, responsible for the likes of GTA and Bioshock, and they've only ever released 2 games for a core audience on Wii. Some of these publishers didn't even bother to release one core game, so how they can say that they tried and failed is beyond me.
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