Some might say I'm part of this problem, as the only 3rd party retail Wii U game I own is Monster Hunter 3U. I do own plenty of digital 3rd party games, like Trine 2, Child of Light, Shovel Knight, and several Megaman games, for all that's worth.

In my opinion however, the blame for that shouldn't have to lie with the audience. As a consumer, I purchase games that I want to play, simple as that. I'm not going to buy a game I had no interest in just because it'll make some corporation satisfied. Especially if the game is missing key features, or has serious performance issues. If they want my money, they can certainly earn it. Else, I can easily buy it on another platform, or not at all.

It has nothing do with who the publisher is either. Many of my favorite games on the 3DS are 3rd party, and I plan to purchase sequels to two of these games this year. So the company making the game certainly doesn't have anything to do with my decision to purchase said game.

So really....blame 3rd parties for not making games that draw me in...or Nintendo for not creating a good ecosystem for 3rd parties in the first place. But you shouldn't blame the consumer for ignoring games that they don't want to play. My hobby isn't a charity.

@bolded: Well, that's a pretty rude thing to say isn't it? You say the non-Nintendo fans need to realize that you guys don't want to just eat everything up. Who says we do? Who says we, like you, can't have our own feelings as to what we like. Hypocritical much? Also, did you happen to forget I'm a big Nintendo fan? 

This is a sales site, that's what we do. We analyze and try to give our thoughts on sales. If you don't want part in it, don't post in the threads that are sales based. I rarely do nowadays. I simply had an idea and wanted to share.

What does this mean? (I'm seriously asking)

True

what about games like TW101 & Bayo though?

Couldn't be more wrong. TW101 didn't sell well but bayonetta 2 and lego city sold really well (bayo 2 should outsell leco city eventually). and many non funded 3rd parties also sold well. zombi U will be a million seller when all is said and done, monster hunter sold 500k+ while being a rererelease. rayman and sonic all star will cross the 500k mark and sold more/comparably to their ps360 counterparts. legos, just dances and skylanders keep selling it's hundreds of thousands every year.

If third parties started to work properly, the number of examples would keep increasing.

How can u sell 3rd party games on a console if it doesn't get them?

Wii U had decent 3rd party support at launch but most of them were destined to fail. Tekken Tag 2, Darksiders 2, Ninja Gaiden 3 were all games that didn't even sell very well on PS360, consoles with 80m+ install bases. Mass Effect 3 was sold for $60 when PS360 got the entire trilogy for the same price. Arkham City was a year old port that sold similar to some of the year old ports on Xbox One. Call of Duty & Assassin's Creed were really the only ones that had a chance of selling well.

Now, if 3rd parties really had any intention of supporting Wii U then they would have had games scheduled for post-launch, which pretty much none did. In the first 3 quarters of 2013, Injustice and Splinter Cell were the only somewhat significant 3rd party titles that werent late ports, that's a span of 9 months.

For the holidays it got a second batch of Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Batman but after 9 months of no support the damage was pretty much already done. Why would I buy a companies games if they are going to treat me like a 2nd class customer?

TW101 is all nintendo fans  fault. Bayo 2 is doing fine

Yeah, blame is too harsh of a word. Consumers can do what they want. I certainly can't tell anyone what to buy. I'm just suggesting that Nintendo is caught between a rock and a hard place because they don't want to ditch their shrinking core fan base but can't keep going like this. (Consoles, the HH's are doing fine)

Honestly, thinking about it now, it's not just a Wii U problem. Nintendo consoles always showed low 3rd party interest starting with the N64. It's only getting worse. Maybe 3rd parties just expect so little going in, it has become a lost cause