@lastgengamer
Because the 90% are shovelware

@theprof00: Stop trolling, you are a crappy poster.

trestres, it's almost been two years! Regardless of your 10x numbers which is pulled completely out of nowhere. Yes, budgets on HD consoles are far more than Wii games, but we are not talking profiting from games but the sales.

@ Soriku

If ANY game sells 14k, its a bomb. Sky Crawlers did not do well at all, of course retailers didn't help as they only ordered 14k. I doubt Namco will be happy they made a Wii exclusive game to only have sold 8 or 9k in its first week.

Sadly, what happens now is clearly the logical steps of what many said would happen months ago.
The backlash of the war of attrition againts the Wii is coming hard to bite them all. Japanese devs are all over the place, and to me they are destroying their franchises and their brand name. They are not even reaching for the new customers with ads.
Sega and Hudson are the only exception.
I have this impression that the cards are being shuffled again, I'm looking at if the best hands are changing owners.

@outlawauron: Games take longer than 2 years to be made you know? Besides some devs need to finish their HD projects before moving onto the Wii. And of course budget has a lot to do, people in Japan are not stupid. The higher the quality the most units it will sell. Quality + popular franchises = big sales in Japan, something the Wii hasn't seen yet because most quality games take more than 2 years to make. Most devs possibly made the shift from the HD's at the beginning of this year so we can expect games to start arriving next year.

In regards to Sky Crawlers, it looks like the game is based on a novel, therefore maybe only people who own a Wii + read the novel would be interested in this. I think there's a movie too that isn't out yet, not sure. But if that's the case, Namco should have waited until the movie was out.

The Sky Crawlers movie was released in August!!!
It's a Mamoru Oshii movie to boot! So excellent movie but niche.
Most people in this thread didn't even realised the movie was released in August, that's how niche it is.
Expecting decent sales for this game without any advertisement so far away from the movie release is only showing ignorance.

@ookaze: Let's hope outlawauron and other people read your post.

and the Wii spin doctors are going into overdrive lol

And the HD fanboys are getting even more desperate lol

 LOL WUT? Even I dont know that the movie is released last month D: I should've known. Never thought the game and THE MOVIE itself was niche...

Though there are still some people debating how BAD the Wii was especially with third parties even with all the facts.

And Im telling this again and again, there'll be a semi-videogame crash in the land of the rising sun if 3rd parties still keep pursuing their agenda, the same fate that will happen in the west so we might aswell play on handhelds. Atleast Namco and SEGA knew what will happen and they keep trying to fix things though I think its a little too late for that...