having a friend bring controllers is always good... on PS1 I bought 8 controllers and 2 multitaps to play fifa with 8, worked only 2 times then guys tired out.

My wife doesn't play much =[

GC was no match in sales, but was a fantastic machine and had great games, even though I have some difficulties playing N64 and GC due to playing little and the controller being quite different than the DS.

I abhor competitive online, but I kinda like the idea of online co-op, the problem is that we can only get that for very few games (oww RC all for one allows very good local and lan 4 co-op) and everyone needs to have the game (plus and sharing helped a little), but DS idea of one person having the game and the others joining like in MK is fantastic.

Third party would've loved to port their third party over to Nintendo but the Wii was just too underpowered. They got a COD in World at War and that was pretty much it. As you said, they were forced to resort to exclusives which used the nunchucks because Nintendo couldn't furnish them with a platform that was on par in power. Its all about money and power. The Wii had that...but it just lacked the performance of the console itself. The Wii could've had a much larger and sustainable following if it was able to play the top multiplats as well.

It was likely a mix of the performance gap and the consumer base for the Wii. 

One of the first games I bought for the Wii was Far Cry. The prospect of playing an open world FPS using a pointer mechanics was extremely appealing. Unfortunately, the execution was horrendous and I'm not convinced it was simply due to a lack of processing power. It came off as a rushed and somewhat broken port. But it did play, SD resolution and all. 

So while quality of early ports like Far Cry might have deterred Wii owners from further support of such games on the platform (odds are high that Wii owner also owned an XB360 if they were in the market for FPS games), it more than likely boiled down to sales performance of said games that deterred Wii developers from further support. 

It really doesn't matter how much market share a product has if the majority of the consumer base for said product isn't buying the types of games a developer is producing. 

Gotta tag this for a read when I get the time.

-Edit : After reading over this I have to say he must have been caught out to suggest something like that, I mean the guy is good at spinning a story but surely there is no one that would believe it would cost a company the same amount to secure a game exclusively for a system which was being outsold 10:1 by another as it would the other way around?

Thread seems to have gotten fairly offtopic tho to the point where people are putting extra words in Phils mouth and little *'s on it for him (or talking about historians and the Bible wtf), which is nice and all that, but based on the words that came out of his mouth he fucked up a bit basically, it happens to the best PR men around the place I'm sure himself or Nelson will probably put out a tweet joking it off in the next week or so like always.

Yes, the Wii was primarily purchased by people who didnt game very much. It was  a media darling, because Nintendos first party is very casual friendly it helped the sales boost to monumental levels as well. Third party cannot always attest to this which is why Just Dance was like the only other third party game to achieve such sales. 

The point is marketshare was the reason third party took the risk in the first place to create ports or new IP for Nintendo. The quality was probably the only issue, also since many struggled with the waggle features of the wii-mote. Nintendo had been working on it for years so they knew how to control it.

Phil talks more than anyone has before at MS.I am glad Sony is too busy bringing exclusive games to talk this much and when they do talk it has nothing to do with the competition.