That isn't what "userbase" means. And if you care about the specs more than the game, you are not paret of the mainstream, so you arguments are really invalid.

This last point is rather important. It still boggles my mind how the PSP was worthy of Tekken 6, or Soul Calibur Broken Destiny, or a proper Assassin's Creed, or Army of 2 40th Day, but a Wii alternative was unthinkable.

Hell, Capcom was able to put goddamn Street Fighter IV on the iPhone, and yet no Wii version exists. There really is no excuse if those games are doable on a device that's not even primarily  made to be a gaming system.

To be fair, the earliest iPhone has nearly twice the total ram of the Wii and half the video ram of the PS3. Then you consider that the PS3/360 version of the game was 720p while iPhone resolution isn't even 480p [720x480] but actually 320x480.

That isn't fair, since that's still a hell of a lot less powerful, and not all the RAM is for gaming.

That is almost entirely the fault of the Nintendo fans, who tend to ignore anything put out on a Nintendo system that isn't made by Nintendo.  Becuase Nintendo fans are half-assed gamers at best, 3rd party companies feel no need to bring their A-game to the consoles, because these idiots don't pay any attention anyway. 

Maybe if Nintendo fans had actually spent some of that money on the quality third party products instead of every single piece of crap with Mii's and Mario, there'd be a lot more higher quality games on the thing.

"Maybe if Nintendo fans had actually spent some of that money on the quality third party products"

We do. Just because you think some mediocre games are quality doesn't mean we're going to spend money on them. Call of Duty is quality, and we buy them. Dead Space Extraction is not.

Nintendo fans aren't the problem, you people, including game developers, are, for this lopsided idea of what makes a good game.

Yea, you opinion is definitely not conducive to this discussion in the least bit.

The customer is never wrong- first rule of business.

See I take offense to this, becuase I am a huge Nintendo fan, and yet over half my Wii games are 3rd party. And many of my Gamecube games are 3rd party as well. I openly embrace 3rd party efforts on Wii. I only ask that the developers treat me like a respectable gamer who recognises quality and actually make a decent effort on their games (see Monster Hunter Tri, RE4, Little King's Story, Zack and Wiki).

Quit crying on behalf of the 3rd party developers. THEY are the game makers. THEY are a business. THEY are here to serve US. The games get the sales equal to the amount of effort and passion a developer pours into their product. And in Wii's case, this passion and effort has been rare. Crap games produce crap results. If your game does not sell, you don't belittle your customers for not buying it. You take a step back and say "what did WE do to get these sales, and what can WE do to improve." That's just business, period. The customer is always right.

Why do you think it is that so many people are passsionate to Nintendo games and not so much other devs? Did you ever stop to consider that maybe it's because they are actually WORTHY of this praise? Maybe they actually make great games?

No that can't be it..it must be some magical spell Nintendo puts on us that puts us in a trance -_-

If you've ever worked in anything like retail, you know most customers are wrong on an awful lot.  Customers, no matter where they're shopping, are idiots. 

A story was once recounted by a guy I know who works at Wal-Mart's electronics counter who encountered an angry wife when he tried to explain to her how Halo 3 wouldn't play on her Playstation 3.  Customers buy Carnival Games in droves because they don't know the difference between that and a game with effort put behind it.  I worked at Toys R Us for two years and no matter the age, financial or social status, or relative intelligence, customers were usually guaranteed to be moronic on any number of occasions.  These are the people that buy a Power Wheels for their kid, and expect it to fit inside a car damn near the same size as the "toy" they just bought.

If a business wants to ruin themselves, they'll start listening to customers.  Listening to customers is why Atari made the original Lynx the size of a refrigerator--because customers wanted something giant, so they felt they were getting more bang for their buck.  Meanwhile, Nintendo seemed to ignore customers and focus groups and made a small portable system that was battery-efficient, and affordable and above all--actually portable.  The same genius thinking that created the Lynx also created the ultra-massive 5200, which, last time I checked, was responsible for gravitational anomalies detected by astronomers.  Funny how Atari didn't learn from that.

The first rule of business is often the same as the bottom line:  Profit.  If a company wants to guarantee failure, they'd assume customers know anything at all.