It is such a strange situation that the Wii finds itself in in relation to third party support. During the Gamecube era I would get really pumped if the Cube had a sales spike because I thought it would result in more quality third party titles. The PS2 had such mammoth support and I won't lie, it made me jealous like nothing on earth (I bought one though eventually). Now the Wii is raking in sales that a Nintendo fan would not have even dreamed of during the GCN era, yet third parties ignore the system as, dare I say it, a serious competitor.
It is almost as if there is some sort of...I don't know, discrimination of sorts against Nintendo's home console division that is stopping third parties from going all-out on the system. I get the feeling they aren't interested in working on a technically inferior home console and just hope the machine will fade away so they can blow millions of dollars on high-risk, possibly company-killing efforts for the "next gen" systems. Where is all the support from Japanese third parties? Their business models fit the Wii perfectly - low development costs mean they can take risks on niche titles and ideas. It makes no sense that they wouldn't embrace the system. I keep hearing developers say that third party titles haven't sold well on the machine, but they are using piles of trash as examples!! The installed base continues to explode (albeit every second week with stores stockpiling and continued shortages), games like Sonic and the Secret Rings, Resident Evil 4, RE:UC, MySims, Dragon Quest Swords and many others have shown strong sales, the development costs are massively lower than on rival home consoles; there is no reason (read: NO EXCUSE) for all third party developers not to be going bull-at-a-gate at the Wii!
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