You fail to understand my first point.

Nintendo can make 1 game or get third parties on board that will create 10 games, which do you think will generate more money for Nintendo in the end ?

Third Parties are a great profit accelerator for the console maker and Nintendo has failed to get them excited about its product yet people on this site constantly keep blaming the third parties and never Nintendo...

And stop comparing Nintendo and Apple, Apple is doing a good job of getting third parties to code applications for Iphone. Why ? because it managed to get developers excited about it... Most developers think however than developing for the Wii is about exciting and fun as having a root canal...

So we are back to blaming Nintendo for third partys' decisions? Excuse my French but wtf?

Do you seriously think that if developers like Treyarch, Rockstar, Infinity Ward or 2k Boston were crazy excited about the Wii and wanted to develop for it, management would stand in their way ?

Somewhat I doubt it for these top tier studios..

Fact is they are not...

And you can blame management decisions all you want but if the rank and file top developers were all petitioning to work on the Wii the Wii titles would come....

And it's Nintendo's job to get developers excited about working on its console..

Comparing developing for the the Wii and the iPhone is a bit of a stretch. Developing for Wiiware and the iPhone are probably more analegous.

As for your point about 1 first-party vs. 10 third-party games -- the latter probably mean more money for Nintendo because of licenesing fees, demand for development kits, and even consoles.

Nintendo's job is to get consoles into households. Third parties are responsible for their own business decisions. This idea of getting devs excited about developing for the system, is irrelevant, this is a business. Factor 5 was excited to develop Lair for the PS3, now there is no more factor 5. What am I saying? This is business.

Whatever third parties do from here on out is another business decision made by the higher ups. Nintendo provides an alternative to the Hd business model, that should be enough for devs to support the system. Before too long the Wii will have 50% of the entire market with 1/3 or 1/4 the development costs..From a business perspective I know which platform I would choose.

When third party publishers refused to support the Nintendo DS because they didn't understand how an affordable system with modest capabilities and an unusual user interface could be successful against an expensive high-performance multimedia-monster with a conventional user interface you could forgive them because its success went against the beliefs they had built over several decades ... When third party publishers refused to support the Nintendo Wii because they didn't understand how an affordable system with modest capabilities and an unusual user interface could be successful against an expensive high-performance multimedia-monster with a conventional user interface, and these companies are now facing bankrupcy because their development costs have increased far faster than revenues, it is entirely fair to blame them for their own moronic choices.

Ail has a point in that Nintendo fail to sell 3rd parties on the Wii's potential. Ubisoft being one lone notable exception at launch.

Also Factor 5 said they wanted to develop for Wii but Nintendo didn't decide on graphical ability until late and by that time Factor 5 had already started HD development. So in a way, Nintendo is partly to blame for F5's demise.

However, prior to launch the opinion of the masses, from developers to analysts to VGChartzers (myself excluded) was that Wii was going to fail, then it was just a fad, a bubble... a... oh crap, it's the market leader!

Nintendo may have failed to convince 3rd parties initially but it wasn't through lack of effort. It was because those 3rd parties lacked vision, and then stubbornly stuck their heads in the sand refusing to read the writing on the wall. And, in that, we blame them.

3rd party companies - "We suck compared to Nintendo"

were already starting to see some 3rd parties turn around with some very big efforts on Wii.