A good try, Rol, but you must remember that the GameCube wasn't a toy. It was a lunchbox.

What other dance game on the Wii, using the Wiimote is there?  I don't know any really major ones, outside of what is on DSWare.  So, take something not really done, make it execute well enough, and market it, and you get sales from it.  A market for something is greater than originality and quality alone, when it comes to determining sales.  People have to WANT what is made.  A person who is a hobbyist as a gamer, and not just someone who plays games, may have issues grasping this concept.

This is actually a good observation.

Usually people predict the future by looking at the past. They estimated Wii to have similar success to the Gamecube.
If game development probably takes 3 years from conception to market. That means they used history to guide their decisions where to put money into making games.

99% of people are stupid. Developers are people. Therefore, 1% is Nintendo.

Elementary, my dear amp.  

Wiis sold so well because the masses are stupid sheep who will throw away tons of money to buy whatever is trendy at the moment, even if the product itself is inferior to other stuff on the market.  We know that trends are set by celebrities (because who better to follow?) and that Nintendo shelled out cash to buy celebrity endorsements.   Therefore, the only reason that Wiis sold is because Nintendo bought celebrities to pimp their s*** to the idiotic masses.

Regarding why 3rd parties aren't on the Wii, game developers are artists, not cutthroat mercenaries, and artists deserve to have the best tools at their disposal.  Wrapping up two purple lunchboxes into an Apple rip-off facade makes for a terrible easel: artists need the greater power of other systems to create stories which rival Shakespeare and Oscar-calibre dialogue.

It's perfectly obvious, really.

Funny enough, I'd say Activision's actually one of the better western publishers on Wii from a "core gamer" perspective.  Yeah, they release mountains of shovelware, but their big console brands and licenses (COD, Guitar Hero, DJ Hero, Tony Hawk, Spider-man, Marvel UA, etc) are at least pretty well represented on the system.  Can't really say the same for Ubisoft, THQ, EA or T2...

I knew it!!! so wii has been doomed and last place all along.

ot: I didn't get the joke....

Which looks like it, but that's not a reason to not put those franchises on the Wii at all, just to keep them also on the HD systems. Putting those games on the Wii would sell even more copies. Ignoring it is just to try to pretend they haven't fallen for the sunken cost fallacy.

The reason is that 3rd parties idiotically listen to the hardcore gamers and use their impressions of Wii to gauge their support of the console.. And since Wii is not exactly the hardcore's favorite, the developer's support is influenced by their opinions, rather than the opinions of the mass market and sales trends. Developers, like many hardcore gamers, are so out of touch with reality it's scary. This explains why one of the highest selling consoles of all time has recieved 3rd party support equal to that of one of the worst selling consoles of all time.

Hopefully they will wake up next gen, and listen to Nintendo and the mass market, rather than foolishly being influenced by a small minority of very vocal hardcore gamers, who are just as out of touch with reality as they are. As I've said before, it you refuse support of the market leader, you do so at your own risk.

Isn't that something which could be accomplished by cranking up the volume until they can feel it?