The real reason Fez isn't on Nintendo platforms

[theRepublic]

Mr Khan said:

pokoko said:
Another one for the Nintendo hate list, huh?

As for Greenlight, there are plenty of valid criticisms, but the project had good intentions. Even Steam has said that it's not working out the way they wanted. They've learned that people often vote for some pretty stupid reasons. Greenlight probably won't be around much longer, I would imagine.

In contrast, Nintendo's restrictions were just messed up. They were the results of apathy and arrogance toward the indie community. I have no idea how anyone could argue otherwise. It was a big, fat, "we got Mario and Wii Fit, we don't need you."

The threshold for making money back was super-low, for any game of any competence whatsoever. It was a mean way to thrust the developers up against the acid test of a game's appeal, that's for certain, and there were other problems that were purely Nintendo's fault (developer needs an office, developer can't publish outside their home country), but the sales threshold thing was an attempt to keep out the riff-raff.

Seems pretty low to me.

"North America
If game is over 16MB - 6,000 units
If game is under 16MB - 4,000 units

Europe
If game is over 16MB - 3,000 units
If game is under 16MB - 2,000 units"

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2009/04/wiiware_sales_targets_more_details_emerge