Nintendo Wii has 60 million selling titles from 3rd parties. What's more, it also has many of other titles just hovering under that mark. It is worth nothing at this point also that the break even point on Wii is MUCH lower than on the HD consoles.
Yes, some titles do flop on Wii, but some titles also flop on the HD systems - just look at the recent releases, Dead Rising 2, Lost Planet 2, Enslaved and Castlevania. They have hardly lit things up have they? All of them had disappointing opening weeks.
On the subject of HotD and Madworld, they sold 720k and 550k respectively. Neither are bad figures - especially for HotD which no doubt had a low budget.
The break even point on games (excluding block buster titles) on the PS1 was around 30,000 units (this was Invisible Walls the other week) I can magine the break even point would be a lot highe ron the PS3 or 360, in fact for some games I would guess the break even point on those systems is over a million units (for major blockbuster titles).
The Wii has had success with third party games, just not the kind of third party games we've seen doing well on the other systems.
I find it quite odd though that when HD games flop, despite their huge budgets, a lot less is said than when a new edget IP like Madworld hits the Wii and doesn't do a million!
