I diagree.  His pitch was basically "our games are worse, therefore you will have less compeition!"

Maybe it's me... but i'm not going to do buisness with the guy who is activly saying "Hey we suck!" 

This was clearly intended as an attack against the Wii, but (in my opinion) it comes across more as an insult to third party publishers. Essentially, the comment could be interpreted as "You third party developers produce such low quality formulaic games that you will never be able to compete against Nintendo" ...

Nintendo has been far more successful than third party publishers on the Wii, but Nintendo was also the only publisher who used their best developers to produce high quality exclusive games for the Wii. I think only a fool would argue that an exclusive Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, Grand Theft Auto, Resident Evil or any well known high quality franchise would sell poorly on the Wii (or any platform); I'm not (necessarily) saying that these games will be ensured the level of success that they achieved on the PS2, but I do believe they would see similar sales to what they will achieve on the PS3 or XBox 360 (and similar sales to the best Nintendo games).

I like this quote from Phil Harrison concerning thr DS :

Phil Harrison:"The idea of a handheld rivalry with Nintendo is an irrelevance. Those formats don't appear in our planning. It's not a fair comparison; not fair on them, I should stress. That sounds arrogant, maybe, but it's the truth. With the DS, it's fair to say that Nintendo stepped out of the technical race and went for a            feature differentiation with the touch screen. But I fear that it won't have a lasting impact beyond that of a       gimmick - so the long-lasting appeal of the platform is at peril as a direct result of that."

I mean it's damn funny, God bless you Phil.

Well, Í never liked Tennis games, but I'm absolutely going to buy Top Spin for Wii. And Pro Evo Wii is supposed to be the most hardcore football game ever. So I think sports games can have a great furure on Wii. But you're right about the racers. They're more graphic driven, so will never be a core genre for Wii.

@HappySqurriel: Nintendo has better sales then everyone, so it'd be hard for any company to equal the high sales that Nintendo is so use to. That being said, as a third party your games are going to sell no matter what system they are on as long as the game is hyped and you've made a decent product. There have been no unexpected bombs on the Wii. We all knew what would sell and what wouldn't.

Zack and Wiki for instance (which always gets mentioned) has met Capcom's expectations already.

We love golf may also get brought up, it was competing against HSG which as we've all seen has gone down quite a bit in sales. If the premier golf title isn't selling as well as it use to, why would you expect an unknown golf game in a flooded market of golf games to sell?

Their old excuses "The Wii is only a fad!", "Wii owners aren't buying games!", and "Absolutely anyone on the planet cares about HD!" are becoming more and more obviously false by the day, so they have to find new ones.

"Wii owners only buy Nintendo games!" is pretty ridiculous and incredibly fallacious, but still somewhat beliveable to the uneducated listener, so expect to hear it a lot from Sony's and MS's PR people in the near future.

Can't you see how Harrison is saying how good third-party Wii titles sell? If every thrid-party Wii game has an attach rate of 40%, that's HUGE!

Another factor to consider ... Nintendo generally has more and better first-party titles than Sony or Microsoft.

So Phil is speaking the truth -- it's better for third-parties here because we aren't as strong in game development.

Mike from Morgantown

 Is that really so though?  Having more good games means you are more interested in playing good games and more people are going to be gaming... and Nintendo's games while high quality don't cover every genre.  

 I thought he said something similar about the Wii, or am I just remembering this quote?