A) No, those games you list wouldn't necessarily be better on other platforms, you're just speculating presenting it as fact. And the only fact here is, MadWorld was a low budget title that did some things right, some things wrong, and it was never going to sell on any platform. It's just niche. Now if you unrealistically assume they would put more effort on another system, you still can't directly compare it, you'd have to compare it to an equal effort title on the Wii. You have no point. The MadWorld team made PS2 games that sold abysmally as well. See Godhand. That didn't prove the PS2 is dead, so how does it now prove the Wii is dead? You're making absolutely no sense whatsoever.
B) What interest do third parties have to try and "revive" the Wii? Again, you're merely speculating, and with absurd reasons I might add. Square (for example) cares for profit, if that profit comes from the Wii or from the 360 doesn't matter as long as it actually comes. Why would Square or any third party make "hardcore" Wii games for the sole reason of "reviving it" if we assume you're right in that it's dead? If it's dead, it means the hardcores are on other platforms, and other platforms is where Square and the other companies can make their money on. Given this, your pure speculation is simply proven false. There are no attempts to revive a platform because nobody has an interest in doing that instead of leaving things the way they are. There are attempts to exploit its market, just like any other system. Some worthy, some unworthy. Some succesful, some not so, for reasons that go beyond "the Wii is dead" as you summarise. Still, the constant stream of "hardcore" announcements for the Wii shows there's profit to be made, overall. Companies make money, they don't beat dead horses wasting their time.
C) You say you like the Wii for its exclusives. Then you basically say it shouldn't have exclusives. Here you say it's not for hardcore games. In other threads you say it's just casual shit. So which is it? What exclusives do you actually like the Wii for? Is there something other than "hardcore" and "casual" and mixed games? You've clearly expressed a dislike for BOTH when it comes to the Wii. What was it you liked? Oh, right, you're just talking bullshift, moving the goal posts further with every new response.
D) What do the sales matter to you? The games are there, whether they sell or not. You're not the judge of it. If it's pofitable there will be a sequel or another game from the same studio. If not, there won't be. That's up to the given company to see if the risk has been worth it and if they were rewarded for it. Square for example has several WiiWare games and a few retail games in the pipeline. They deemed their first releases profitable. Who are you to tell them otherwise? Do you have their financial records and how much a given title cost and how much they made in return? Are you trying to save Square from bad business decisions or something? Apply to be a manager there, don't spew random statements in forum threads.
If the games keep coming, what sense is it for the end user who "enjoys its exclusives" to care if they sold or not, as long as we keep getting announcements of new exclusives? Because we do keep getting announcements of new exclusives from many major and minor companies, so clearly, overall they actually do make a profit whether you want to put them down because they didn't sell as much as casual games or not. Hint: the casual market will always be larger now that it's finally been exploited.
Again, companies make money, they don't beat dead horses. The constant stream of announcements for the Wii shows there's money to be made on it, no matter how many examples you can cite of games that didn't sell, as there's an equal share of games that didn't sell on the PS2, or even all platforms of past generations combined. Shit happens, that's all these prove. An industry reality, rather than the Wii's particular demise or anything silly like that. Which still shouldn't matter to gamers as long as games keep getting developed. And they are. So where's the problem? Nowhere.
A final point for the sales. High profile casual games on the Wii sell far more than many hardcore titles on any platform. Look @ high profile JRPG sales on the 360 for example. Casual Wii games outsell them by far. With your reasoning, all platforms are dead in the face of the casual market. Not just the Wii. Thus, that's clearly the wrong reasoning. Companies exist to make money. They keep making "hardcore" Wii and PS3 and 360 games because, overall, there's money in doing that. Facts.
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