In terms of resources devoted, however, they still seem to be making a significant commitment. Its just that teams churning out multiple Petz, Imagine or Portz games at once put out several times as many games as the good teams.

Nintendo themselves like the My Coach series, Raving Rabbids plays to unique strengths, Red Steel was a $12M commitment, and they picked up outside developed games like No More Heroes and Tenchu to publish. That's a pretty good record. Certainly better then Take-2 or THQ, for example.

But that attitude and intelligence has not filtered through the whole company.

@Erik Aston: THQ is bringing out Deadly Creatures and DeBlob, thats millions of miles ahead of what Ubisoft will ever do on the Wii.

Take2 shows better support, they at least make their sports games multiplats and Bully was a great game. I bet they are developing decent titles for the Wii.

THQ is developing a good wii game for the hardcore

THQ has several interesting niche games for Wii ANNOUNCED in edition to their usual liscensed games; most notably Smackdown vs. Raw and SpongeBob so far. Take-2 is finally bringing over their yearly sports franchises to add to Carnival Games and a late port of Bully.

THQ is only now coming over to the same kind of mixed effort that Ubisoft (and EA) has given Wii since launch. Take-2 I think believes they can mostly do without Wii. Bringing yearly sports games to the leading console can't really be hailed as great support unless they pull a PES.

Even Activision probably ranks below Ubisoft in Wii effort. GHIII is on everything, and after that, just liscensed games.

I basically agree with everything Erik has said to this point. That said, I don't think any publisher deserves as much credit for what they are making on the Wii as much as Marvelous.

In general though Japan seems to be getting with the Wii a lot quicker than the West. If I did have to pick a Western publisher who seemed to be actively trying to be successful on the Wii it would be Ubisoft (even if they don't really know how)... EA and Activision aren't too far behind though.

 Ea made boom blox and that is one of the highest rated wii games. At least they put effort into their casual games unlike ubisoft. This is all after ubisoft says they are going to make good games for the wii. EA is also giving the wii alot of good sport games too. Thq is giving the wii deadly creatures, and de blob. Both games look like they have effort in them. I agree about activision though. 

EA is the biggest western Wii supporter so far, they have a lot coming up.

Activison may be one if CoD5 and all the GH's are actually good. GH will be good, CoD5 I'd highly doubt it.

Ubisoft is the worst western developer on the Wii, it's easy to publish. Publishing = getting money off from other's work. Of course it helps in terms of advertising (NMH advertising was terrible) and localizing, but the true recognition goes to the Tenchu team.

THQ is bringing in some original efforts, besides some shvelware.

Lucasarts is putting some great effort.

Take2 is caring more about the Wii lately.

Eidos is bringing MonsterLab and Tomb Raider Underworld.

From the above the only company that fails to impresss me is Ubisoft, the amount of garbage they can produce is unbelievable.

EA is interesting.

Boom Blox, Tiger Woods, the other sports games, Boogie, MoH: Heroes 2, MySims, EA Playground, etc...

A paragraph could be written about each on how someone, somewhere in the process behind each game "gets it," but the bloated, directionless corporation messes it up in another area. It's like the Ubisoft situation times 10.

@Erik Aston: Don't forget about The Sims, Sim City Creator, Spore, Ninja Reflex (this one sucks), SSX and there are plenty of others I believe like movie liscenced games (Harry Potter is the only one I remember)

Yeah, rabbids is funny. I think that's why they are talking about. Like they make their things kinda American/British classically crazy. I gotta admit I busted a gut when I saw the Rabbids get ahold of that Balance board in the picture.

I have never played the games, but I definately see the appeal.

Those darn Rabbids, lol. Gettin' into everything and using it the wrong way.