I'm guessing Just Dance is relatively quick and cheap to make, and sells well, so it must be a good source of income to help fund the production of games like watch_dogs and the division, which eat up a lot of money for a long time before any chance of recouping costs.
That article Goh posted shows it sells well on Wii, I was just wondering how it does on the PS3 and 360, since the Wii audience seems like its natural home and now PS4 and XO are out and Wii U's not going to make anyone any money, what is this genre's future? Publishers must like the comfort of a game series or genre that is consistently profitable to help smooth out their bottom lines, and there have always been one, before dance games it was mini game collections.
If this isn't the new gen's cheap and cheerful genre, what will be? Can a publisher that makes big expensive games survive without one of these, or will they reduce further the number of new IPs they can take a chance creating?