as most are sayimg this is obious amd unnecesary

They could have also said, "video games are flying off the shelves, as long as they're made by Nintendo, or about exercising, partying, or killing Nazis," but that would have been a dig at the whole industry instead of just the Wii userbase as "noobs who buy the 'wrong' games."

Why don't we ever see something like this??

PS360 software flew off the shelves, proving that PS360 games sell ... as long as they're published by 3rd parties.

well it's true.

this have been true since n64 days, and nintendo own "dream team" of third parties.

nintendo games sell tons of nintendo consoles.

even meele sold tons on a 20 million userbase of the GC.

Where is the guy wiht the sig saying "List of sites trolling the Wii"

That would be epic right now.

Put Mario Kart Wii, NSMBWii and Wii Sports Resort next to (one of the best 3rd pary software) till now on the Wii : Darkside Chronicles. Who in their right mind'd take that over those titles?

Instead of rushing localization and having MH3 ready for launch during holidays, stupid Capcom put another on-rails shooter up against Mario (2D co-op Mario no less). It's their (3rd parties) own stupid decisions that lead us here.

coming from Joystiq that's not unexpected, I wonder what you'd call this article then:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4237/thirdparty_publishers_react_to_.php

and a little less than a week later they have to write this:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26824/Nintendo_DS_Has_Best_Year_In_History_Wii_Not_Far_Behind.php

WW Wii Top 50 can give an idea of the situation:
http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?console=Wii
Nintendo gets more than 70% of Top 50 sales.
Nintendo has two advantages nothing can eliminate except Nintendo itself committing suicide, the huge fan base of its established franchises and being first and having HW and SW carefully tailored to each other and heavily bundled, particularly when it releases new consoles and peripherals, like Balance Board with Wii Fit, Wii MotionPlus with Wii Sports Resort or Wii Sports with Wii itself.

can someone tell me the 3rd party game on wii that was supposed to sell 650k+ in one month in 1 territory? There are probably only a handful of 3rd party games on wii that needed 650k+ LTD WW to break even. There isn't even any evidence that any 3rd party wii game cost more than 10 million to make, while the average HD game costs 20 million. The only 3rd party games i have seen that have shown any kind of real investment are red steel, MH3, and EA sports active.

There's no hope for a Wii-is-doomed free week.