According to reports, third party games are not selling well on the Nintendo Wii platform, as it appears that the only company really making profit off of the incredibly hot console and games are first party Nintendo.
Goichi Suda, known as Suda 51, has come out and stated that third-party games are not selling well on the Wii in Japan. He stated that Nintendo is the only company really making a huge profit off of the success of the Wii.
He spoke specifically about the sales of his Japanese game, No More Heroes. He stated that the sales were not as high as he had hoped. He stated “other titles for Wii aren’t selling so well either. Only Nintendo titles are doing well.”
He stated that this is not just because of the situation in Japan, but also outside of Japan in Europe and North America.
He stated that he expected the Wii to be more for hardcore gamers and is surprised that it has turned into a console which casual non-gamers love.
This agrees with past comments made by executives at Microsoft, where they have stated that Xbox 360 third party titles are blowing away third party game sales on other consoles such as the Wii and PS3.
Source: dbTechno