Wow! Third parties are GUARANTEED sales on the PC/360/PS3? Holy mackerel! No wonder Nintendo can't attract them.
I never said that. I was simply stating that the "developers that matter" see making games for Wii as riskier than making PC-style games, which is something they're already good at.
But Nintendo isn't sitting back. They are also the best game makers on the Wii and going by units-sold and dollars generated this generation, the best developer, period. And third parties don't "get it." They flooded the Wii with Shovelware and now everybody wants to basically buy only Nintendo games because they have a great reputation and third parties do not. So sorry that they make awful games, but Nintendo did not point a gun to their head and tell them to make garbage.
Again, I never said Nintendo was "sitting back" when it comes to THEIR OWN own titles. My point was that they don't need third-parties when it comes right down to it, so they don't give two shits about catering to them. And yet people complain when third-parties treat Nintendo in the same flippant manner. Have you ever heard Microsoft or Sony say ANYTHING negative about third-parties, EVER? Hell, even when Activision publicly threatened to pull PS3 support, Sony didn't say anything bad about them! That's because they need to stay on good terms with third parties, because they need that third-party dough coming in. Nintendo is good either way.
Do you think Nintendo had third-parties in mind when they developed their convoluted Friend Code system? Bwahahahahaha. That was Nintendo looking out for Nintendo. Which is 100% what they should be doing, but don't complain when third parties give them the cold shoulder.
That will be incredibly short-sighted of them, considering Microsoft and Sony will be pushing motion controllers too. So they'll have to learn it one way or another. Motion controls aren't going anywhere, and they are missing out on, at the very least, practice for Natal and the Sony Wand. And after they practice they can make a press release where they ditch the Wii and blame it for poor sales of Pigpen Casino: 23 Games. That will be disturbing, but expected.
They already have PS3 and 360 dev environments set up, so they can tool around as much as they want. How much "practice" do they need? If they're happy making PC/360/PS3 games, why would they commit several years to making a Wii game - which probably wouldn't sell anyways, unless there's a mega-franchise like Monster Hunter or Dragon Quest or Resident Evil attached to it, or it's dance game - just to get "practice" with motion control? That sounds like a really expensive way to practice to me. You might as well learn it on the hardware you're already developing on.
Wii is where original IPs go to die, yet everybody continues to kid themselves that it's some huge opportunity just because it has a large userbase (that doesn't play much else other than Wii Fit, Wii Sports, Wii Play, and Mario Kart).