Had they bothered to actually advertise their games, hell even on the internet they wouldn't need to be doing this. Advertising is a must if you expect your game to sell. People don't buy games they don't know exist or aren't easily found in the store. Porting to another system (from a system with an install base bigger then the 360 and PS3 combined I believe) isn't going to help if they don't address that situation first.

Maybe they'll be the anti-ubisoft. Make low budget/or ports to PS3/360 to help fund larger budget Wii games... lol

Let's agree to disagree.

To be frank, all the Marvelous games made for the Wii would have been right at home on the PS2 and probably would have fared better there. Two of these are cheap rip off of PS2 game anyway, one of Odin Sphere and the other of Shadow of the Colossus. Marvelous decided, as some smaller publisher, to go for the Wii due to it's cheaper developement cost, yet continued to make the exact same kind of game they made before and used the wiimote + nunchuck as a classic controller split in two and replaced some button press by motion control. These kind of game simply didn't interest the console audience and neither did the heavely japenese style.

People didn't buy a Wii to play the exact same game they played on the PS2, there is still the PS2, 360 and PS3 for that.

I think No More Heroes as the best candidate to port, even Desperate Struggle is not out of the question

I could see Muramasa becoming a PSN/XBLA title.

I think this'll just end up costing them more money - they need to advertise their games in the first place if they want them to sell, and unless they do, porting them over will just end up being a money sink.

Well not exactly.  You still have a "retailer" to get through and that is the one who runs the server... Sony, MS, or Nintendo.  Now of course for the downloadable ones I'm sure it's not as bad.

However, for a developer, their main issue isn't necessarily the retailers but publishers.  There reason for making games on the downloadable ones is they can do it without having to worry about the need of a publisher.  Actually selling your games to retailers isn't really all that bad.  Usually retailers will make less than a quarter for each piece of software just to give you an idea for how much they sell it to them.  Developers get screwed by publishers paying them a fixed cost.  It's great if you don't have a game you think will sell but on ones that will... publishers reap the benefits not developers. 

It's like really any business contract where you are making you contract based on how well you think the game will do.  So if developers can take the publishers out of the picture they simply developer for all the money aside from licensing and royalties at either fixed or percentage to whoever runs the downloadable thing. 

Guess the best way to put it, is like anything business, it's not necessarily so clear cut.

Of course there are still costs incurred, but the exta cost of the manual, case, shipping, retailer cut are removed and replaced with a small cut from your respective company. That's all I was saying.

No Arc Rise, Fantasia, No Muramasa for the HD consoles. This games would sale worse there than on the wii.

Hd consoleros prefer simple action games. It is obvious that Marvelous will port No More Heroes, but I fear even this game will sell worse than on Wii and another publisher is at the end because of an flopped hd game.