@HappySquirrel------> Well those are from japanese developers after all, after the gaming armageddon(Dont correct me on this, Im just a fan of Sean Malstrom thats all :P) with Wii Fit and SSBB hits Japan, theres nothing japanese developers/publishers can do but to develop a game for the Wii.

But what about western developers? Anything interesting? Please dont tell me about de blob and deadly creatures since its a niche title unlike Saint's row 2, darksiders and Frontlines

Beyond MadWorld, games like Skate It and Madden from EA have shown an interesting take which is far more related to a more indepth "core" gameplay experience than the "casual" approach they have been using with these series in the past:

Skate It: http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/856185/skate/videos/skateit_wiicontrols_050808.html

Madden: http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14229535/madden-nfl-09/videos/madden_wii_callurshots_051208.html

Look at it this way. You are operating a game design studio always worried about the mounting cost of development. You are essentially presented with the following choice. Do I reach half the market by designing on one platform that is easier and cheaper work on? Or do I reach the other half where I have to design on two separate platforms that are more difficult and more expensive to design for? Duhhhh

Im curious about this one. WHAT?!! 3rd party developers dont know how to make a 3d game before Super Mario 64 came along? Thats odd, so ps1 games copies super mario 64 mechanics?

One thing people fail to realize concerning the Wii is the fact that it is reaching a bigger audience.

And usually the bigger the audience the smaller the amount of money they individually have to spend.

This woudn't be such an issue except now developers are left competing to entice a customer that will buy 4-5 games top a year to buy one of their game. And the issue is that Nintendo releases 3-4 kick ass games minimum a year so the picking left are small for the rest of the developers....(especially as Nintendo game gets much bigger marketing anyway).

That's not the case for every Wii owner, but the bigger its audience becomes the bigger the problem will be as the newcomers to the gaming market won't be buying 6-8 games a year like the more hardcore of us do...

For 3rd parties to develop successfull blockbuster on the Wii one of two things need to happen

- Nintendo needs to slow down the release of their big blog busters to leave room for the others.

- Attach rate of Nintendo-made game need to dip, leaving room for others games..

That's not the case on the 360 or the PS3, there aren't 3-4 First party titles that totally dominate every year ( at most you have 1-2).

Happy Squirrel hit the nail on the head.

As he touches on, the problem was/is an institutional one: after all these publishers (and therefore developers, who follow where the money goes) invested very heavily in the idea of an HD future, pouring capital into technology, artists and programmers and then selling that to their shareholders as a cost of doing business, it becomes very difficult to have to turn around and admit that you've now sunk stunning amounts of cash into assets that are much less valuable than they were even a year ago (this isn't to say there isn't money in HD games, it's simply that there is the potential to make far more money with much less risk in the camp that, at best, they were benignly ignoring). 

A case in point is Lost Colonies, a game that, by all counts, cost some 50 million after development and marketing were all said and done (I am assuming the cost of developing the engine was part of the price tag for the sake of this example). With that sort of expenditure, Capcom needs to get a *ton* of mileage out of that technology and if it isn't very scaleable it's going to be hard to  recoup that investment when your assumptions going in were that you'd end up with 100 million (a number I'm throwing out for the sake of argument--it could be much higher or lower) HD consoles. Mind you, I'm not picking on Capcom, I'm just using them as one example of how things can go awry when the future you invested in turns out to be a mirage.

This is part of the reason you see so many publishers and developers lashing out at the Wii during "We Hate Wii" month: they invested so much time, money, effort, sweat, blood, virgins, etc. into a paradigm that is rapidly eroding that you're witnessing the real-time death throes of a lot of credibility and a lot of out-sized egos. When the smoke clears, though, most everyone is going to end up developing titles for Wii out of neccesity, regardless of whether any of them truly like or believe in it.

This, incidentally, also explains why a lot of professional gaming critics and fanboys for MS and Sony do the same: they staked their reps on the Wii being a trainwreck or, at best, a novelty that would quickly be relegated to an irrelevant third place, a suitable position for what they perceived to be "kiddie" or a "toy" or a "gimmick" (how soon they forget the lessons of the DS). Now that it's hammering the competition they're extracting every pound of flesh they can for being made to look foolish--making hay while the sun shines, in a manner of speaking.

Anyway, you needn't worry: there will be tons of software for the Wii, including 'real' games that will slowly shift the focus away from 'casual' titles and shovelware. 

Yushire, the ps2 and ds are both examples of consoles that had nothing in there first year or two. It takes time for the winner to get games.

Super Mario 64 was so legendary at the time.

Basically every platformer after SM64 superficially copied it. Most platformers dropped you off in a hub, unlocked the first world and said "get 6 (completiion items) to unlock the next world." Just like SM64. The big difference, of course, is that SM64 did it already.

For more fun, let's rewind to the NES era. Super Mario Brothers spawned a million platformer clones where you ran from left to right, jumped over pits, dealt with enemies in some way and cleared multiple stages. Some of them had variants, like giving you a melee attack or a gun or a strict timer, but they were all following SMB's blueprint. Sega eventually broke out of that by making a platformer that was fast and had "attitude." Thus Sonic the Hedgehog.

Look at the XBox & XBox 360. Lots and lots and lots of FPS clones. Most of them with "take cover to regain shield" mechanics. Just like Halo. Sure there are variants (2-player online coop, different weapons, different plots) but they are following Halo's blueprint to the letter. Has a break-through FPS emerged yet? I don't really know (a little help from FPS nuts out there?)

So when the Wii came out, what did developers see? Wii Sports (OMG TECH DEMO?) Rayman Raving Rabbids (OMG MINIGAMEZ!) and promptly shoved waggle-driven tech demos onto the Wii. Of course, they didn't notice how Nintendo used its A teams to program Wii Sports or how subtle the controls are in RRR. But they'll figure it out soon.

Right now the Wii has 5 games with attach rate over 20%, there will be 7 soon ( Mario kart and Wii Fit will be there in a few weeks). All are Nintendo made

It does not leave a lot of money ( and time) in the average customer pocket to buy and play others games..

As long as Nintendo made games are MUST-BUY  and there are so many of them, the problem will remain... 

3rd party is not a single team though.

Instead of Nintendo owning (arbitrary!) 90% of Wii software sales, MS + EA + Activision own (arbitrary!) 90% of XBox 360 sales.

It's the same situation for the remaining 3rd party devs. I'm not sure what makes it so much worse for the Wii.