Good post, but I have to disagree.

First: third-party games on Wii does sells, even a port from HD consoles like CoD: WaW. If you manage to advertise well the Wii version, it'll sell, no doubt about it.

Second: they done that several times last generation. Xbox originally made games like Wreckless, Dead to Rights, Splinter Cell and TOCA Racer Driver 2 were downgraded to release on PS2. Resident Evil 4 was made for GameCube originally and was downgraded for PS2 as well. If they done that last generation, why not do this now?

Third: Wii have almost half of the world market share, so saying that people don't want it is not valid.

Stop bringing the market share issue all the time.

You say Wii has half the workd market share yes the one game you name as being successfull on the Wii ( CoD:WaW) sold 1.12 million units on the Wii compared to 8.6 million units on the HD consoles...

And stop saying all the time that developers are stupid and don't want money...

I see this alot, and I never understood it much. Nintendo first party games are indeed great, better than anything third parties have put out until now.

But what does "compete" mean here? It's not like there's dozens upon dozens of first party titles to flood the market, so why should buying first party titles exclude buying third party titles?

Can't a customer want two platformers over the years? One will be SMG, but there's still place for at least another.

Ail, just because the HD versions of CoD:WaW sold 8.6 millions doesn't means the 1.12 millions of the Wii version aren't profitable. Enough to serve as example to prove you wrong that Wii owners just buy casual and Nintendo games.

There was no other good place to go in those times.

From what ive heard from 3rd party developers on podcasts, they have 2 choices.

a) Create a HD game and release it on PS3, 360 and PC with minor port cost
b) Create a game just for wii from the ground up

Have you seen the sales from Wii 3rd party exclusives?
Even monster hunter G was 130k for the first week (psp was 700k)

Its very risky to make a high budget game for the wii.
The price is another factor, the platform gets a fix amount of money, lets say $10 for every game. Its the same amount for the wii, 360 and ps3. But HD games are $60 and wii games are around $40-$50, that's less revenue for developers.

Except Sega and Rising Stars (European publisher) were satisfied with Madworld and NMH sales (in fact RS was thrilled with the sales).  Probably because the cost is generally much less to make for the Wii than HD. 

And you ask what your sig has to do with this... usually when someone sees that in one's sig, that implies to them that you may be a sony fanboy (not saying you are one), although in my sig my 3 fav games this gen are all Wii games n_n, so I guess I'm not one to talk :P.

^To tell the truth, in the case of MadWorld they said that they were satisfied with the very initial bunch of sales data.
It will need to sell more than 500K copies to break even though.

People are seriously over-thinking this.

This isn't a Wii phenomenom, its something which has afflicted Nintendo systems for 3 generations.

I think the best answer therefore is: Nintendo doesn't work well with third parties. Its more Nintendos fault than the fault of the third parties.

Agreed.

Hmm how many games on Wii fail to make profit? sure as hell can't be like on PS360 were what? 7 out of ten games fails or something like that.