Well this hasn't been unusual for Nintendo consoles. Nintendo is the only developer in the world that has games that can dominate all others. Great for them but not so great for anyone else. But, it does seem to be getting better as our sales are showing more and more 3rd party games are selling better on the Wii. I mean up til Mario and Sonic at the Olympics on the Wii, the best selling 3rd party game on a Nintendo platform was Street Fighter II. So at least progress but its hard to take down the most powerful developer in the world. The other consoles are lucky to not have that competition.
Mrstickball- yea it's not great for a leading platform but it would be worse for a losing one. Because if it was a smaller userbase then that leaves less to be sold while even if those percentages stay it still leaves a large portion of sales left over for the rest. So I'd bet if that same scenario was for the GC, which it probably was and worse, the situation was probably not as good as it is with Wii.
But it's something that needs to be worked out in the long run, but there isn't ANYTHING Ninty can do about it. Nor should they do anything about it. It's up to the 3rd party developers to try and capitalize and get sales. They have to try to beat out Nintendo. Good luck but its there responsibility. That Ninty is even trying to help them is nothing short of a good grace considering they are their competition. But they are going to have to make "Nintendo level" games as Ubisoft put it to do that. Good luck.
