House of the Dead and Resident Evil are very popular franchises. Dead Space is not. This is why it bombed.

What Wii owners want is a choice. Often Wii owners get second hand games. How many of you are happy your older brothers/sister hand me downs? It doesn't matter that it's been washed and had some touch ups it's used clothing. Some are fine shopping at Value Village, but the majority of consumers are not.

But this doesn't mean that consumers don't want rail shooters, but rail shooter of a game that wasn't block buster on another system isn't going to magicly do well on a console being sneered at by the publisher.

If they feel that rail shooters can do well how about developing 2 games at the same time. The classic gameplay as intended and a "guided shooter"(snicker). And for sakes don't do hand me downs just cause big brother only wore it for a week.

I have not seen an honest to goodness "core" game done by third party that treated the Wii with respect or what consumers want to play or at least enough marketing to gain my interest.
NMH great game, blood heacy and satiracal on other games.
Madworld can't make up it's mind on the game type and it's black and white. AND BLOODY.
SpyBorgs, come on 2d brawlers don't translate to 3d. and don't add bad flashy gimicks.

Tiger Woods is a perfect example. It does what it is supposed to do and last heard. Did better on the Wii. It's that simple, don't piss around guessing you think WiiGamers want and just make a good game that isn't gimped. SWTFU, Ghost Busters.... the list goes on.

Just a case of EA being too late to the party. There are already enough on rails shooters on the Wii, so the one with the least brand name fails

I'm sorry but this post makes no sense.  If the Wii is only used by 5 year olds and their grandmothers playing Wii Fit together as you so quaintly put it, why on earth would EA bother to make this game in the first place?  I fail to see how this is the fault of the machine. 

No matter what way you cut it, it's the publishers fault.  They didn't make the right game for the right market and even then, as much as you seem to want to deny it, they totally failed to market it, vital if you are hoping to tap the large casual market.  The only thing done right, was that apparently the developers made a half decent light gun game.

However, as has been discussed ad nauseum it seems Wii owners; grandmothers, 5 year olds, and the core alike have had enough of this particular genre.  If in fact EA do want to make a game for the Wii core then half-assing it (rail shooter, short, buggy?, limited replay + full price etc) really isn't the way to go.

So no, it's not a case of mature games not selling on the Wii, it's a case of releasing a game that half the userbase doesn't know about and the other half doesn't care for.

I'm a core gamer. It didn't interest me whatsoever. I think that the problem is that I fall into the majority.

There's one small problem. EA probably does care ;)

So don't forget about it when next year they flood Wii with more exercise or sports series games only.

it all comes down to marketing.

and not just the promotion part but there was problem with all 4 Ps

overkill got all 4 Ps right which is why it is profitable

Third parties just don't get it, Wii gamers like quality, we have Nintendo, so all that stuff that PS360 fans are willing to stomach just won't fly on the Wii, you want to sell on the Wii you have to be as good or better than Nintendo, you have to bring the fun

Sir, that isn't a flaw. And you should be far more concerned with this news than you currently are. Red Steel was a flawed game at best. CoD and RE sold well due to brand name but I would be skeptical to say that they would do so again. The thing is that the Wii has sup par graphics for this generation, and that alone alienates a good majority of the hardcore fans.

That is an absolutely retarded way of thinking.