The "end of third party" BS needs to stop. I don't feel this way as a Nintendo fan, it's because it's not true. Nintendo has always been very strong.
3rd parties have been banking on Nintendo handheld consoles for years. It's all those crazy trainers and side-scrollers on GBA and DS that fund new IPs on home consoles.
I am almost 100% sure that the Wii has a higher rate of third party software sales at this point than GCN or N64 did at the same point in their respective generations. Someone else go dig up the data, I'm tired. :)
EDITED AGAIN:
@Darc: He said that he never said that, I dug up the post (I am good at sorting through lot's data), he laughed and (I like to think) we became friends.
@Pablo: I really should've removed WiiSports in NA and WiiPlay in JPN because of the rediculous attach rate for a $10 game. But it was easier to remove WS. Either way the second set of numbers 8 mil 3rd party software for Wii and 13 for 360 really says it all.
If you plugged those numbers into a graph that showed by each week the total of third party software to the installed base the numbers it would most likely favor the Wii.
y=the weekly 3rd party software sale/install base
x=week
I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.
