It was the worst racing game I've played in my entire life.

When they're just so many better racers on a system, a game like Sega Rally is totally obsolete.

A few top reviews and a lot of mediocre reviews.

Rally games are nowhere near as popular in Europe as you might think. Certainly more popular than in the US, but aside from the Colin McRae series there is simply nothing.

yes let us see.

3 studios have gone bust developing on the HD twins, most of the rest are posting financial losses and doing staff cuts.

How does this in your brain conclude that they know what they are doing?

sure there have been a few games that have helped save some developers but overall performance of those companies is bad.

"3 studios have gone bust developing on the HD twins, most of the rest are posting financial losses and doing staff cuts."

Shrugged off with "they made bad games", ignoring the quality of the past games of those developers.

There is so much right with this post I find it sad that it was completely ignored...

Plus it's half of Maelstrom's points, put in possibly the best abridged form possible.

I'm not touching this thread with a 10 foot pole! (see I am learning not to troll)

well offcourse haha.

if it was dev on a HD console the game that doesn't sell = BAD GAME.

if it was dev on Wii and game that doesn't sell = Wii Fault blah blah blah audience

the sooner they realise that NO GAME WILL SELL TO 100% user base the better.

PS2 most reat games only sold to about 5% of the userbase

You can post here without trolling. Just keep everything factual and relevant.

I agree with the OP mostly, as there wasnt a good large budget title on wii from 3rd partys. An exclusive one what is not competiting with the HD version of itself, and plays to the wii strengths fully.Not one.Companies will never be able to complain that those games wouldnt sell, if they havent even tried.
I disagree in one side, however, i love onrails and i hope theres always support for them on the wii. DC was great and i hope more in the future ALONG big budget Resident titles. The play great on the system and are mad fun.

WAW is a big good example. Even without the precedent of NOT having COD4 on the wii(Even tho COD3 MATCHED PS·3 SALES!!!!!!!!!!!!), and competing with itself and BEING NOTABLY GIMPED( something fixed in Reflex, the WHOLE experience is intact on the wii and the graphics were HIGHLY improved).

Even SO, WAW got good sales in just a year. And thats a 17 + non exclusive sales.
Resident 4 is the best example tho, it was late, a port, a game that could be played on the wii already and still sold nicely. Why?because it wasnt competing with a better version!.

Even so, i imagine that RE5 would sold twice as much as the 2 year old cube game(for the aforementioned facts). Im looking at 2 or 3 million figures here, and thats a Blockbuster no doubt.
I think finally capcom saw that and for good or wrong they tease us with the game as of late.

Assasins creed on DS but not wii? Sales of resident games on wii destroyed the Ds sales, sales of COD on wii destroyed DS sales. Mature games can sell on the DS, but they sell more in the wii.
So why was that? A bunch of nonsense from ubisoft.
NO, developers sometimes have no clue in what they are getting into. They see MW2 selling big time and we will too! they asume the market will embrace their efforts, and no, its not that way.They make mistakes. They go bankrupt. Wii market is fresher and is quite large for big budget third party games. Recognizable brands.Nobody would buy a better looking Conduit.Sales of NMH WONT be big on the 360(Look afro samurai for details).
Assasins creeds however?prince of persia?yes.
Or even better. An exclusive big, huge third party game. An exclusive CALL OF DUTY that has no "better "counterpart. After all, the porting costs, according to Activision, are no cheap(from HD to wii), so they might as better spend it on making the best wii exclusive experience.

Reflex looks almost always fantastic on the wii. Imagine if the engine and design of maps was in a way that didnt force the wii to sacrifice shaders and normal mapping in the emulation of the PS360 game. It can be done.It should be done, and it would look great and be a great experience that would make consumers confident on their product and purchase.Sales would be great, not affected by multiplat owners(as they would try a exclusive COD in between the yearly installment), and boosted by its presentation.

While japanese developers are in the boat(DQ X hopefully-Monster Hunter 3), western developers have to be less shy, and just give the core wii gamer what they want.The same the PS3 core gamer wants.