Good business model: Make games for less money, release on platform with largest user base.
Bad business model: Make games at high cost, release on platform with small user base.
How many times do we have to go down this road?
The Wii gets shovel ware because:
1. It's the best selling system this gen, and that's not changing for at least the next 2 years (and probably not at all), which makes it a draw for the cheap, lazy and incompetent (as was the case with the 2600, NES, SNES, PS1, and PS2 before it).
2. This problem has been compounded by the fact that the PS2 still has a huge, active user base, and many of those lazy developers are still developing Wii games with an eye towards that platform. That will change.
3. It had been almost completely dismissed by most third parties until about a year ago. They are shifting gears, and we are starting to see some evidence of the "good" games coming along (Conduit, Mad World), and it will be reinforced if good games sell well, which they do appear to do.
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