Hmm. It was core gamers who bought 1m+ copies of the Resi 4 port in the first year of the Wii's release. It was core gamers who bought millions of copies of Twilight Princess in its first year. I suspect it was core gamers who bought the million copies of CoD 3 and Metroid Prime 3 in that first year. There was a core audience on the Wii at the beginning. If it's not there now, it's not because of the shinier graphics on other systems - its because games like the ones mentioned became all too rare. A version of Resi 5 using the Resi 4 engine would have surely sold a lot better than the light gun versions of Resi Capcom decided to follow up Resi 4 with. How much would CoD 4 have sold had it been released and advertised at the same time as the other versions (rather than discretely two years later, still managing to sell over a million)? What effect would the release of such titles have had (as well as a Starfox and F-Zero maybe) on keeping that core audience playing on the Wii and attracting more core gamers to it? We'll never know, but to say that Wii failed to attract a core audience because of a lack of HD glosses over the fact that core games did well in the early days of the Wii - I think it was their relative novelty that did for the core audience in the end.
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