wii's 3rd party lack of success...could it be an isse on the long run?

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kn said:

Spectrumglr said:
ok, Wii is selling like hot cakes (probably even at a higher rate than VGChartz's reports as NPD July sales figures were 18% higer than VGChartz) and clearly by the end of the year it will be the N°1 next-gen system by a great margin...but still there's a lack of support by 3rd party devs and not without a reason as 3rd party games are selling poorly (compared to the user base). Could this be an issue for the HW sales in 2008? How long can continue a success that's only based on 1st party games?

Plain and simple, yes. If third parties keep using the wii for quick ports in a hope to cash in on the Wii "fad", they will kill the system in the long run. There is already a lot of shovelware on in and a significant amount of announced shovelware. (see outrun thread, lol). Nintendo does have the right to refuse to publish a game and they need to see to it that they exercise that right.

 Why wasn't this a problem for PS1 and PS2? PS1 was filled of showelware and shit games for two years and it wasn't untill FFVII that some quality games started to hit the consol.