Why? Seriously? Third Parties have problems...

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bdbdbd said:
@steven: I believe NES was more dominant than PS2 (except for Europe, that is).
You actually seemed to have quite one-sided point of view. What Nintendo does, instead of pay for exclusives, is co-develope games with 3rd parties or hire a 3rd party to make game for them (Mario Parties, Geist, ED, F-Zero GX). The only meaningful difference is, that when paying for a game to come to your platform, the IP stays as 3rd party IP. So Nintendo is doing the same as for example M$, but their approach is different.
And i don't think people complain about the moneyhats except to see it as a reason why certain game comes to certain platform.

I don't think there are "too many" multiplatform owners, since it really makes no difference due to future sales potential. Besides, it works the other way too, which shows the whole idea on how Wii differentiates itself from the competition. (Unless you had somekind of logic that i didn't get).

The online was largely because of bad online game sales on consoles during the last gen, so Nintendo assumed they sell badly this gen too. Well, they didn't.

But look how Nintendo did with the DS, they put the 1st party games out to get different demographics on DS and then leaved the table, with a huge installbase, for 3rd parties (not solely, of course). That's what they are doing with the Wii.

@iamfanboy: Remember when DS and PSP launched? PSP was beating DS in sales for a moment. Besides, the PSP installbase is sustainable too, just that there are far more DS:s and the cost for developing a game is less. Consider that that Wii/PS360 follows the DS/PSP path (which it looks like), and after a while you're talking about Wii having so large installbase with no real competition, just like you said about the DS.

You made an excellent point, however, the circumstances are different.  The install base of PS3/360 is greater then the Wii... that will change but it is very unlikely to reach the DS/PSP ratio.   The DS is so much greater then PSP (units sold) that there's little choice for third parties.