Market size PS3-360-PC(Steam users only) = 40 million (growing at the same rate or faster than the Wii.) Eventually it will cost practically nothing to port between the Xbox and the PS, so to a third party they can be counted on as one unified console in terms of selling power.
Market size Wii only - 23 million.
Look at the top 50 games currently, 2 3rd party games. One is NMHeroes and it's sold poorly. It may not even crack half a million.The other is Carnival games, which has been mentioned as shovelware.
The Wii is a victim of incompatibility. No man is an island they say, so the lack of a decent GPU has really hurt the chances of getting 3rd party support, they could have put in a r300 for crying out loud! That gpu was initially being designed for a Nintendo system! Furthermore, we wouldn't be having this discussion had they not been so cheap on the graphics. If games like Assassins creed, could have been ported to the Wii without reworking ALL of the art assets, then they proabably would have ported it. Art is the most expensive area of development today.
If my broken Wii was working I would count myself as a Wii gamer also. (Damn fragile console not withstand being stood on) I think that the problems of today are caused by the fact that Nintendo, being a conservative company... Did not expect it to sell as well as it has.
Tease.
