Third parties pull a fast one and blame Nintendo for their own crappy games

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Wii sports and Wii play account for >25% of total Wii software sold and almost 33% of software sold in the million plus sellers. If you remove those tites, it significantly impacts the numbers.

I agree that Nintendo puts out more excluves than MS, but I view that as a negative. You are trying make your pie and eat it to (your software competes with 3rd party software for market share). Look at attach rates (it is the only 'standardization' between consoles, and time, Wii owners only buy 5 titles and 2 of them is going to be Wii Play and Wii Sports, that means there are only 3 more ttles out of the entire Wii library that people will buy, hmmmmm Mario cart or Call for duty, hmmmm smash brothers or Madden, hmmmm mario Galaxy or Star wars. We know what people end up buying. It does not matter what 3rd party developers put out there, they simply cannot compete with anything that has Mario in the title. The one title that has truely impressed me is Wii fit. Inovative, and has sold very well despite the costs. The point of putting attach rates to non-nintendo titles is to see how many 3rd part games are sold per console the answer is not even 2.

I would think that EA/Ubisoft/Take2/konami etc, etc, are far more knowlegeable in this matter than either you or I am. They probably track many, many stats including trends, buying habbits, demographics, etc. They have a much larger vested interest (money) than either you or I have (pleasure in playing games). It makes no sense to me to blame EVERY 3rd party developer for the lack of sales as they ALL cannot be wrong. Yes, if a particular developer or few of them are struggling on the Wii but many of them are successful, then blaming the develoeprs is acceptable. But when every develoepr has the same issue (for the most part), Nintendo is at fault here. They are the ones that (are equally as smart, if not more smart) in realizing the gimic they have and have used it to their own advantage. The rest of the gaming industry has gone forward (MS, Sony, and all 3rd party developers, including those for the PC), but Nintendo CHOSE (and by all immediate indications chose correctly from a pocketbook standpoint) to make the Wii and have in doing so alienated themselves from the core gaming community. Nintendo has done nothing to support 3rd party developers this generation and it will come back to bite them.

The best analogy I can think of is like this: Blizzard decides to make diablo3 for the consoles but because Nintendo has dominant market share but with last generation hardware power, TOTAL game sales are less, because the quality product is being made for the PS3/Xbox360, BUT they no longer have the userbase (PS2/Xbox/gamecube) they had last generation for a LAST GENERATION GAME. Thus sales numbers are significantly lower even though PS3 and Xbox owners support diablo3 very well. This is because of nintendo and their decision to use old hardware (why play diablo 3, when it will look the same/play the same as diablo 2 on the Wii). It is not the fault of Blizzard. How could it be their fault? The same applies to EA/Ubisoft etc, etc. I do not blame Nintendo for trying to make money, but stop blaming the 3rd party developers. Its like buying a 8 year old PC and then complaining that Crysis is gimped on your computer and thus I am not going to support crysis any more until they make games to support my PC. there are 1000's of last generation on the PS2, gamecube and orginal Xbox for that.