Piracy is the real reason why core games on Wii don't sell as well?

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LordTheNightKnight said:

"they judge them based on the content available and graphics etc and find them wanting"

The reason I don't believe that is because it hasn't been proven that those who buy the HD games like them for those reasons. It's just assumed because they buy those games that it's because the of reasons the vocal minority gamers do.

And this vocal minority includes developers, so they find the Wii lacking, and do their best to hide what they think is the problem, when the real problem is that they focus on that instead of what actually sells those core games.

Thats also supported by the average sale price for Wii third party games. Pachter said IIRC they were $33 in the U.S. and we have also seen multiple instances of games which started poorly finally take off and sell reasonably after a $20 price cut. If people simply don't value the software at the regular sale price it creates a discord which can lead to piracy or it can lead to people simply not buying the software at the regular full release price.