Yeah, the Wii didn't follow tradition, so it makes sense that many of its games won't, either. Cheap dev costs and a new interface are a great opportunity to explore new ideas.

I get frustrated when games come to the Wii that don't embrace new ideas. I'm playing Little King's Story right now, and it's a great game, but the developers seem to have been under the impression that they were making a PS2 game. Where's the pointer?! Everything about the game is fresh and creative except the interface.

Even a lot of Nintendo's Wii games are more attached to their history than I think they should be.

Nintendo invented the traditional franchise...so congratulations on your well thought out post!

they are not exactly traditional they are big in japan, and they hit the wii because the user base.

The audiences who enjoy the franchises you listed? They're primarily on the HD consoles. Maybe not the RE fans, a lot of them own a Wii, bu for the others? Yeah.

HD-type games come out on HD systems because that's where the audience is concentrated.

I think it will be changing in the future.

Seems everyone ignored this

It stems back to the last generation, where Nintendo proved to be safe investment for third parties, and so the third parties went to with Microsoft and Sony at the start of the generation which attracted the "core" audiences over to these consoles, and so Sony/Microsoft still remain the safer investment.

Main FF? Main RE? Talk about moving the goal posts. I don't see why these can't be included since I associate franchises with the name... even though Resident Evil 4 is on Wii.

The Wii is better anyway for getting exclusive games made specifically for it while the other two shares most third party games.