Yeah lol but corny sells.

Just check your local movie theater =D

Yes, it's funny because third party games have sold better on PS3 than on Wii.

@Kyros: What does a light-gun game have to do with motion controls?

Konami has some "expanded" games for DS like Quiz Magic or others that seems appeal to girls (I don't know if they developed by Hudson though). And I agree with noname, I'm very happy with the Konami so far, it may not have a lot of support for the Wii, but at least with great quality, Elebits was fun and unique, with good use of the control and the first game to have online, Dewy's has some of the best graphics on Wii, Pro Evolution is revolutionary, and Power Pros (both of them) are great but I agree they are PS2 ports.

On topic, I think those were good sales for Wii Music, it's not a game that you'll pick on day one but it will have strong legs. Sky Crawlers sales however are very dissapointing. Current gen consoles are having a hard time in Japan and the traditional software is not selling, except Nintendo, huge franchises and PS2 games. It just seems japanese are still very satisfied with their PS2 and are in no hurry to buy a new console.

@outlawauron: Yes, it's funny because PS3 games have had 10x the budget of Wii games and have most been sequels to the most popular core franchises in Japan, while the Wii got ports/remakes/spin-offs/shovelware/New IPs.

Aren't you hasting a bit while making a blanket statement like that? It would be better to judge Wii vs other consoles when games actually start to arrive, not while Wii gets the scraps. Blame it on 3rd parties for putting their main franchises on other consoles, Wii has nothing to do with this.

But that's a common statement that is being used by haters that are desperate to find anything positive about their consoles of choice, when they see that they sell terribly bad and there's nothing that could happen to save them.

Again, I'd like someone here to explain how a system that has 7 million consoles sold manages to put out a very popular sports game like Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, and gets outsold by a system that has under 1/2 the hardware units available.

@mrstickball: Stop cherrypicking. Plus PES 08 got released way later (Last version released and all hype gone) and presented a new control scheme and much less content.

Is my explanation good enough?

Ah this explains why we saw so huge efforts by japanese third party to develop for PS3 last TGS.

Ugh people arguing userbases again and hwo they relate to sale. The point is they don't as really all they do is give feasible limits. They do not represent a certain percent of decrease or increase given a title's sales. Seriously just ignorant now to not understand that very simple concept. Ugh and from peole that denote themselves as knowing things about sales.

Anyways Wii Music opens to about what I'd expect. Given all the negative hype it would be surprising if it did really strong numbers in its first week. But that won't stop the mainstream unless the hype wass so negastive that it thrashed the brand as well which is doubtful considering Wii Fit is keeping the brand strong.

Yes, you did restrict the titles selected to just third parties. But your argument did not. I quote:

"See, here's the problem: The X360, PS2 and PS3, despite their userbases, manage to sell core titles. Not as much as they used to, but despite the userbases, there have been some successes, again despite the user bases.

You have to realize something is wrong with your userbases' buying habits (the Wii's) when Metal Gear Solid 4 on PS3 can nearly outsell your top 2, 3rd party games on another system with well over twice the userbase."

You make a blanket statement that "something is wrong with userbases' buying habits" because they don't buy "core" titles, then in the same sentence you eliminate the best-selling core titles on any system. Note that before the final clause, i.e. the exclusionary clause, third-parties are not mentioned anywhere; your argument is all-encompassing, so your data should be too.

As a sidenote, you're also wrong about there being something wrong with a userbase, just because it doesn't buy the same type of titles as you. The kindest word for that is "elitism." Please stop practicing it.

I do thank you for answering one of my questions. Let me address the flaws the in your answer.

No More Heroes is a Western-oriented game made by a niche developer. None of Suda51's titles have done well in Japan, despite being on the almighty PS2. Do the titles Flower, Sun, Rain and Killer 7 ring any bells? They both tanked in Japan, just like No More Heroes did. The difference is that No More Heroes did quite well overseas, while the former titles did not...

Tales of Symphonia: DoTNW was publicly and repeatedly referred to as a spinoff game made by Namco's second-stringers. Vesperia was the game to watch, supposedly, as it was being done by Team Symphonia and actually had a budget. And yet New World outsold it handily.

Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles has two problems for your argument. First, it's a low-budget spinoff game in a genre that rarely does all that well nowadays. Second, and more importantly...it sold well dude. Like, way over Capcom's expectations well. The title was only expected to sell 650k worldwide. It did almost half that in Japan alone. You may have picked a poor example with this one...Oh, and compare the sales of this game with Time Crisis 4, if you please.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Dragon Quest spinoffs on the DS have sold over 1 million copies...

Cheerfully! You're wrong. Dragon Quest Monsters sold over a million, but Rocket Slime was outsold by Swords. This in spite of the fact that gaming in Japan has transferred to the handhelds, and that Swords costs way more. I'd also like to point out the glaringly obvious: Dragon Quest Swords comes from a spinoff series that began on the PS2, Kenshin Dragon Quest. I believe it was outsold by Swords...

Apples to apples it is, then. For PES, recall that the Wii version was released six months after all the other versions, when the soccer season was winding down. There's a reason why sports sim games are released at the start of the season, you know. Or do you reckon fans should double-dip on a 1:1 basis?

As for Power Pro, I concede that some games don't seem to fare as well on the Wii as they do on the PS2, although for some games that trend is reversed (see Dragon Quest Swords for one example). Mind you, the PS2 is still very much alive in Japan (its sales are above the PS3's this week, and PS2 games continue to routinely chart in the Top Ten. Don't count the little black box out yet...). Of course, PS2 games are still outselling HD console games in Japan too, so don't start crowing just yet, my friend. And curiously enough, Japanese developers are shifting more and more to the Wii, rather than to the PS3. Why might that be?

Edit: Holy crap, that took a while. Need to start typing quicker.