5 of the top 10 are Nintendo, with most of the non-Nintendo stuff is week one sales. I am waiting for the time in which Nintendo games are the only ones in the top 10.

NSMBWii was pushed to 12 due to week 1 games (and a 3). Just dance doing well in Others. Surprised that Ubisoft actually wants to reduce Wii support after this title.

Maybe, artistically speaking, they want to make games that aren't about dancing as well. Crazy thought.

Except that that dancing title is still selling and may do better then ever game they released this generation.

Business is about making money. If a silly dancing game is what makes you money, you make a silly dancing game. Just Dance will prove that the Wii is where their primary resources need to be. Esscially as Ubisoft and most 3rd party developers are underpreforming, if not losing money.

Or perhaps they want to keep making games like Assassin's Creed 1 and 2 as well? There are ways of making money outside of the Wii (this is the biggest myth this gen) if you make an effort and I don't think any developer dreams of making only dance games.
What if you were a professional painter that was only allowed to draw stick figures? Hardly fulfilling. Most developers will probably want to both turn a profit and make different games.

and it was discounted heavily from 2nd week and the price now is of a pretty old title

still expected alan wake to sell alot more than that. 360 has a big userbase and its also an exclusive. i read an article somewhere about ps3 exclusives selling 45% better or something

http://playstation.joystiq.com/2008/06/12/ps3-exclusives-sell-45-better-than-multiplatform-releases/

I don't think userbase makes much difference for niche titles.  20 million or 100 million install base mostly they sell only to those interested in that genre.

Only a few titles in the survival horror genre really sell loads, most are decent at best.  I know AW seems a little more shooting/action orientated but in the end the impression I got from the marketing was survival horror.

Personally I really don't know why Remedy went exclusive with this title - in that genre I'd say you either need to know you have a chance of hitting big on the leading platform, or be multi-platform.

I think it'll sell okay, particularly in US, but it's not going to see huge sales I believe and it's going to miss a fair amount of sales by being on 360 as historically survival horror seems (so far as I can tell) to sell better on Sony/Nintendo platforms from a global perspective.

RE5 - perhaps the biggest recent example - sold really well on 360 but even better on PS3 (with different demographic split across US/Japan/Others).   Survival horror sells (or can sell) very well in Japan, and again Remedy took a path sure to limit sales in that region.

Just need to make something clear for you it wasn't discounted heavily from the 2nd week, it was discounted from the 3rd or 4th week.

But you have no clue, in UK (and in a lot of Europe) if a new game holds its normal price for over a month, its a big surprise. For example LittleBigPlanet dropped to £15...5 weeks after its debut. (I'm sure Darth & other UK people know this too)

God of War III has been discounted to £25 in many stores now about a week or two ago. 

If there is demand a game will be bought, if the price is lowered earlier the game will have shorter legs as more people will get it now & not later, this will not affect the games total sales, but you have said in the past you think the game has flopped in sales, so there's no point arguing with your clearly false logic because you will never be impressed.

Well i'm not sure it deserves it, but i'm gald its doing well. the combined PS360 sales numbers are close to 2 mil. it will most likely top FF8 & FF10, but the big milestone is whether it can top FF7, 2.70, less than 1 mil to go. and for once it looks like the sales could top US. absolutly amazing. hopefully with subsequent price cuts, word of mouth etc, it can top FF7 here in EU. it must have been the Leonia Lewis effect, lol... not!

Really its done that well compared to past ones?

I can say the Leona Lewis effect has hurt the game though, most of my friends (who like me are new to FF) got the game because of the amazing CGI cut scenes shown in the trailer, not the shitty song. You have no idea, Leona Lewis is very unpopular among males here. We did all love the game however & we questioned why the song was even in the trailer because the game itself has really epic music that could have been used which could have possibly increased sales, nor did the song give the feel the game gives you. Leona Lewis did nothing but cheapen the commercials.