looking through these forums I see all the time that 3rd party companies dont make many sales with the Wii. I have pulled a list of 25 games that have each sold over 1 million copies. None of these developers on the list are Nintendo.
So how can people honestly think the Wii cant sell games? And most of these are not just what they call "shovelware".

01. Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution (Tomy Corporation) 1.02m

02. Big Beach Sports (THQ) 1.04m

03. The Simpsons Game (Electronic Arts) 1.05m

04. Rayman Raving Rabbids: TV Party (Ubisoft) 1.06m

05. Ben 10: Protector of Earth (D3 Publisher) 1.06m

06. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (LucasArts) 1.07m

07. Red Steel (Ubisoft) 1.08m

08. We Ski (Namco Bandai) 1.12m

09. Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (LucasArts) 1.12m

10. Smarty Pants (Electronic Arts) 1.25m

11. Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (Capcom) 1.33m

12. Deca Sports (Konami) 1.35m

13. Rock Band (MTV Games) 1.36m

14. MySims (Electronic Arts) 1.38m

15. High School Musical: Sing It! (Disney Interactive Studios) 1.46m

16. Rayman Raving Rabbids (Ubisoft) 1.47m

17. Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (Ubisoft) 1.58m

18. Game Party (Midway Games) 1.72m

19. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (Capcom) 1.75m

20. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (LucasArts) 1.99m

21. Sonic and the Secret Rings (Sega) 2.09m

22. Guitar Hero: World Tour (Activision Blizzard)  2.18m  <<<---------- [Outselling both xbox360 and PS3]

23. Carnival Games (Global Star) 2.97m

24. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (RedOctane) 3.93m
 
25. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega) 6.69m

Not to mention to break even point for wii games are low budget 100k to 350k high budge games to break even.

Damn......alot of those games are garbage....

Anyways anyone who says that doesnt know what theyre talking about. Like neotea said development for Wii is incredibly low compared to HD and more than likely if you reach 100k youve made profit.

I agree that the whole "3rd parties can't sell games on the Wii" is a huge misconception. However, I do need some sort of proof for your statement. I've never heard those numbers before.

It does make third parties money, but so does PS360 developement. Which makes more depends on a variety of factors and pretty much comes down to the strengths of the developers, the size of the publisher and nature of the project.

I don't think Wii makes developers as much money as some Wii fans I've read tend to think, just cause a game sells 500k is hardly the whole story, and developement costs can easily cost less then marketing.

So er, all console platforms are profitable and a successful third party will have a strong multiplatform initiative.

One thing I do find interesting is that the most successful Wii games have a strong household brand name attatched to them - Sonic, Resident Evil, Star Wars all the way down to High School Musical and Naruto. I think that's a strong evident for how third parties need to approach Wii developement.

too lazy to dig them up and look up linkz.  I'm a lazy lazy guy what can i say.

By who's standards? Sure, I may not enjoy High School Musical, but, if I were to give the 1 million Wii owners who bought that game a copy of No More Heroes, they'd prolly go "Wtf is this crap?"

No haters gave up that argument long ago. Now it's good Wii games don't sell well. Oh wait that went away as well. It's good "hardcore" (the stereotype)/mainstream third-party games don't sell well on the Wii.

And when that is disproved I'm sure they'll switch to something more oddly specific. Oh they are persistent.

Found some links although they are quit a bit old so the development might of been lower by now.

http://www.cubed3.com/news/8146/

http://www.blogmyway.org/entry.php?w=ljvb123&e_id=6155

Production Expense
PS3/Xbox360 > Wii

Revenue
PS3/Xbox360 > Wii

Profit
Wii > PS3/Xbox360

That's the usual, not sure how true it is though; I mean logically I could say that if a product operated at a loss, let's say MGS4 sold 200k while Game Party sold 1 million units, then lets say that MGS4 needed 800k units to break even that would mean MGS4's Revenue was 800k + 200k. Then let's say Game Party needed 20k to break even, then that means it's revenue was 1 million + 20k.

By that point Game Party would have the higher Revenue and profit. However MGS4 sold upwards of 5 million I believe, so it would be fair to compare it to M&S Wii which is around the same numbers, which had the higher profit? That's a no brainer. Which had the higher Revenue? That's a no brainer also.

Ans 1 : M&S Wii
Ans 2: MGS4

In both cases the software resulted in a profit, this is regardless of platform. What I see in the OP only makes my day a littler funnier.