When will 3rd parties take the Wii seriously?

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Legend11 said:
When a game like Mario Party 8 is kicking Metroid Prime 3's ass it's not hard to figure out why the Wii is getting the kind of games it is. Seriously what incentive is there for third parties to make more expensive hardcore games for the Wii when they can put out something like Carnival Games and make a tidy profit?

Wii Play has more sales than Super Mario Galaxy and Twilight Princess combined. If Wii Sports had been sold seperately in all regions it would very likely have had better sales than Super Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3, Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition and Red Steel COMBINED. That should make is very clear why the Wii is getting the low budget casual stuff.

As for the big budget hardcore games, why would a publisher choose the Wii over multi-platform development on the PC/360/PS3 which has already shown it can move a lot of copies if a hardcore game if it's good. Is there any third party games on the Wii expected to sell 5+ million like they expect Assassin's Creed to eventually move? What about the 4-5+ million for Call of Duty 4?

Sorry buy anyone who thinks that the Wii is suddenly going to get a lot of hardcore games as opposed to the 360/PS3/PC next year or the year after needs to take a reality check.

Absolutely true, IMO.

However, I think you're missing the point of why Wii Sports, Wii Play, Carnival,  Rayman Raving Rabbids and Red Steel did so well.  It's because they were *different* or at least played differently.  And as such, they were not just the same old thing in a new package. 

Not that 'same old things in new packages' will not sell well.  Just that it becomes harder each time and more expensive.

Eventually, the flood of Carnival games will exceed the newness.  And newer new :) will need to be created.  Such as Wii Fit and what can be done with that.  Any 3rd parties now working on a game for that input device that can capture the imagination of game players?  We'll see in about 9m-2years.  And that company will be well rewarded for it, not caring that they are critisized for being faddishing new.