How is anybody rooting for their failure by simply listing the games they have made for the Wii?
It is not the action, but rather the intent and the tone that indicates cheering for failure.
The painting of Nintendo fans as ideologues notwithstanding, who do you think deserves to sell the most games on the Wii?
Is it Nintendo? Or is it any of the third parties listed here? I'm interested in your response.
It is Nintendo, because they have put in the most work.
Is it possible the animosity engendered by the third parties is actually their fault? What steps have they taken to make considerable products on the Wii? Have any of them arrogantly stated that they "understood" the Wii audience and made something that failed, both critically and commercially? Could the "sour grapes" attitude copped by these publishers when they fail be another factor?
Well, the game I'm personally considering my best of the year is a third party title. In fact, in my top five Wii games this year, I'd include at least three third party titles. As far as "understanding" the Wii audience, I'm not even entirely sure NINTENDO understands the Wii audience, considering games like Excitebots have failed at retail just like some of the third party games we're talking about. Where's the outrage over that? And rather, it's not that I'm surprised that you're upset that third parties seem to make mistake after mistake, but when this thread reached it's ELEVENTH page in about a week, the tone goes from "sour grapes" to absolutely enraged. If this community was really thirsting for a AAA 3rd party Wii game, then they'd be too busy playing Silent Hill to get this thread to 11 pages in the course of 10 days. Once again, I maintain that they don't really want any game that doesn't fit into Nintendo's ideology, which is almost every third party title out there not named EA Sports Active.
Is it really the Wii gamer's fault nobody bought the third parties' shovelware? Is it really their fault that the hare-brained spinoffs didn't sell either? I'm interested in this response too.
Who CARES about the shovelware? EVERY system has shovelware. It's our job as a website, and your job as a gamer who cares about playing unique original titles, to filter through it and point out what is worth playing.