Sony and M$ didn't do a better job "enticing" third parties. I don't know what you are talking about. Third parties ASSUMED one of those two consoles would be the market leader (most bet the PS3 would be #1, and guess what..it isn't). It really is as simple as that. Every third party wrote Nintendo and their Wii off this gen, had they known (who really coulda saw this coming?) the Wii was going to be the WW runaway marketleader do you really think third parties wouldn't have supported it with major franchises? EA said it best, they bet on a wrong horse.
Why should Nintendo Pay any third party to put a major franchise on the system? The Installed base is tempting enough, the smaller dev costs is tempting enough, the new input device is tempting enough.
Alot of people blame Nintendo for the shovelware on the Wii today (I'm not accusing u of doing this) But during the 80's and 90's when Nintendo was dominating, Nintendo was very picky with what games got produced on their systems, and were criticised for that. That is not the case today but still the critique goes to Nintendo for third parties not putting their top quality teams to develop for the Wii? I'm sorry I'm just not ready to go that route.
Third parties are their own entity, they will make their own decisions some good some bad, and they will have to deal with the consequences. Dib8terman is correct in that you may be critising the wrong department here.
Bet between Slimbeast and Arius Dion about Wii sales 2009:
If the Wii sells less than 20 million in 2009 (as defined by VGC sales between week ending 3d Jan 2009 to week ending 4th Jan 2010) Slimebeast wins and get to control Arius Dion's sig for 1 month.
If the Wii sells more than 20 million in 2009 (as defined above) Arius Dion wins and gets to control Slimebeast's sig for 1 month.
