How did I know that Rol didn't write this?

Poor Rol, I think you've done a good job here

It's an interesting point, but more accurate would likely be that most 3rd parties didn't care in the early days of the Wii, and Dead Space is the classic example. Why release an inferior prequel to a game which isn't avaliable on the console in the first place, whilst other, superior games were being released on the system? That's why it had poor sales

3rd party games on the Wii have good sales (MHTri, Goldeneye, Epic Mickey, UDraw, Just Dance 2, COD last year for example, as well as other games like Resident Evil etc.), some have average sales (Conduit, Red Steel 2, MAdWorld for example), but there have been very few 'bombs', and even fewer which are not in 'niche' genres.

And this isn't an issue solely on the Wii either. How about Nier, Dark Void, Bionic Commando, Alan Wake etc? People just pick on the Wii because its easy and people won't question it, because it's been 'confirmed' with misconceptions like the one in the OP, whilst games which 'bomb' on the HD twins are ignored and when its brought up people say its 'against the norm'

All these games which 'bomb', there are reasons. Sure, some games deserve more sales, and the Wii audience is stupid and buy rubbish games, but simply saying the issue is people who just buy Nintendo games is a bit nieve. There's far more issues than you may expect.

Nintendo published Mischief Makers in the West, though, and it paid for OB64's development/published it in Japan.

@mrt-tar  did you even play N64?? there were hella 3rd party games. Resident Evil, Fighting Force, Wipeout, RidgeRacer, Spider-man, Gex, Turok, Quest, Crusin series. i could go on and on. Just because some people ignored the gaems doesnt mean it didnt exist.

What are third parties supposed to do under such circumstances? Market their games properly for one, Dead Space Extraction is a prime example of a quality third party title that was stealth released.

This happens because Nintendo keep doing the same games toward the same audience. Wii audience now is pretty much the same N64 and GCN audience from before, the same Mario and Zelda fanboys. The difference now is that Nintendo managed to get the new "casual" audience with games like Wii ___ and Just Dance kind.

To change this, Nintendo needs a new direction and change it's audience.

zombies? I thought they were sheep.

Zombies... Sheep... Kiddies... Elitists... All the same.

On a related note, I can't wait for the Super Smash Bros. Brawl DLC game Undead Fightmare. I hear the story is about the N-Virus infecting classic Nintendo characters and the uninfected brawlers have to fight them off while finding a cure.

Buying the PS3 awesome console.