There is so much talk about Wii 3rd party sales, I am not trying to make a statement on whether it is worth it or not for Publishers and Developer have motivation to make Wii games.  I am putting these numbers here to show what third party games have sold well in N.A.; many did not do as well as there 360 or PS2 counter parts.  Depending on how much it cost to produce these games would shed more light on profitablity.

I will say that 3rd parties will continue to support Wii in one way or another.  Hardcore gamers may or may not like what comes out, but these companies are more concerned with profit then whether anybodies happy.

 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

Activision 1,129,666

Sega 843,877

Ubisoft 715,165

Ubisoft 450,396

EA 426,334

EA 423,495

EA 423,135

Take 2 405,409

Sega 404,407

LucasArts 400,080

Sega 354,375

Activision 353,340

EA  350,689

Konami 324,149

Capcom 284,865

Ubisoft 282,493

Majesco 267,573

Activision 266,558

Activision 261,979

EA 248,524

D3 Publisher 239,103

Atlus 227,137

EA226,473

EA 222,438

Konami 219,631

THQ 203,229

Take 2 195,332

Atai 190,414

EA 181,152

Activision 175,134

Activision 166,299

EA 164,502

Konami 161,842

EA 161,523

THQ 160,197 

not bad

One thing I have been asking but have yet to see an answer from anyone who complains about third party Wii game sales is ...

Is there any game that has been released for the Wii which would have sold so much better on the XBox 360 or PS3 to justify the greater development cost?

I could be wrong but I don't believe there are any games which meet this criteria which means that Third party publishers should be focusing their efforts to producing and marketing better games for the Wii.

well put

 umm cooking Mama....duh!!

P.s And Resident evil, GH should not be included in that list they are anomalies, plus red steel and RRR were launch titles.

MBBB was a launch title too

I don't understand what companies are doing. They are complaining that 3rd parties don't sell, then when it does, they don't make any improvements.

Take ubisoft for example: They claim that stuff don't sell well, and look, NONE of they're upcoming games are for the wii, other than Red steel II. None of my favorite franchises are there. Where's the Tom clancy's? Where's the prince of persia's? Not on the wii, that's for sure.

And Eidos? They say, oh, no wii version. And then they announce one, that's ported from the PS2 version. Seriously, What's with all these PS2 ports? It seems that all the Mulitplatform games on the wii are also on the PS2. Ghostbusters, TNA impact. Sadly, im assuming they are also ported from the PS2, which is the dumbest decision ive ever heard.

At least factor 5 understands:
They say "oh look at the puny gamecube 1.5", then they make a bad game(Lair) that bombs. And now what are they doing? They crawling back to Nintendo.

I'd love tom clancy on the wii. Hopefully by the time they get Unreal engine 3 up and running, publishers can knock some sense into themselves.

Carnival Games sells almost as much as Madden?? Groan...

 Dude Madden sucks.  I'd rather have Carnival games.  Besides Madden is a causal game of the highest order.

3rd parties need to start making their quality games for Wii and they will be pleasantly surprised. Give us AAA titles and we will buy them.