Yeah... I mean they'd... just have to.

They won't though. Reason being... companies are inherently greedy and rarely conservative even in hard times.

Many would much rather swing for a giant blockbuster a 5 times and risk failing then make 10-20 good games with postivie margins.

The best method would seem to be to cut the HD Consoles games to only your "BIG" franchise blockbusters while putting out a lot more mid level stuff out on the Wii to fund the big franchise games and cushion yourself if they fail.

I have faith that core gamers care about more than advancing technology.

No, really, I do.

if anything they should "force" people into the ps3.  the wii is pretty easy to pirate for which won't help their bottom line.

I just found this article:

http://www.gamecyte.com/eas-fiscal-2009-update-sales-down-cuts-imminent

Apparently, the Wii is part of the problem because 2/3 of the sales on the Wii are first-party, something that hasn't happened since pre-PS1 days. Nintendo has Wii software sales on a stranglehold. Their own.

Frankly I'm not ready to blame Nintendo for making games that sell better than any other games in the industry

The userbase is there, developers just have to learn how to harness it. Some have!

They should have done whatever it took to get RB2 Wii released earlier. I really don't understand why they were unable to. Whatever your feelings are about the Wii, it's hard to deny that RB2 Wii would have sold well during the holiday period.

Very astute.  People being good at their job make things harder for people who aren't as good at their job.

Yeah, RB1 is selling like gangbusters.

It is... when you consider the 360/PS3 versions were released right before X-mas... and the Wii version was released in June... and much later.  (Weren't you one of the people argueing that the reason timed exclusives sell worse on the PS3 was the timed part?)

http://www.vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=America&game1=Rock+Band+-+PS3&reg2=America&game2=Rock+Band+-+X360&reg3=America&game3=Rock+Band+-+Wii&weeks=100

Note the huge X-mas boost the Wii version is getting despite it being 5 months old.

Now lets compare a similar game when released at the same time...

http://www.vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=All&game1=Guitar+Hero%3A+World+Tour+-+X360&reg2=All&game2=Guitar+Hero%3A+World+Tour+-+PS3&reg3=All&game3=Guitar+Hero%3A+World+Tour+-+Wii&weeks=100

I'm not sure I trust EA on that number.  According to VGC data on the Worldwide Chart for the Week Ending 28th November 2008 (most recent week we have data), Nintendo published Wii games sold approx 3.77 million units.  Total Wii software was 8.37 million units.  That's 45 percent.  Still very high, but not 2/3.

Does anyone know a way to total all Nintendo published Wii games?  I had to add it myself for the week, and I don't want to go back and do that for all weeks.  If we had that number, we could get the percentage for the life of the Wii.  We already have total software for the Wii at 203 million units.