You can't seriously say that by the time Nov rolls around(1 year since launch) that the Wii won't have an impressive first year batch of games. I could start naming games here, but everyone already knows them. You could have just saved yourself some time and said you think the Wii is a novelty and put on your "I'm a hardcore gamer" biker vest. You said yourself that Nintendo is keeping it's cards close to it's chest with future projects, and you know that third party companies don't necessarily announce a game as soon as they start on them. So what gives? 99% of these unannounced games by Nintendo, Sega, Capcom, Namco, and countless others are going to fall into the area of mediocrity?
You'd think after seeing a few consoles launch people might get the idea that you're not going to have 5 great rpg's, fighters, sprawling epics, and ground-breaking action games in the first year or so. Same goes for the PS3, and the same happened with the 360 and every console I can think of. I'd like more games like MGS4 and Ninja Gaiden 2 on the Wii, but they don't detract from games like RE:UC, Z&W, or Nights in the least. Between those 5 games I don't know which one I'll enjoy most, but my opinion on them won't be influenced on whether or not they are accepted by the "hardcore" elitists.
"Funding" select games is probably something Nintendo is already doing. But it's not something that will be worth their money in the longrun(at least on a large scale like MS has done). Buying the RE franchise didn't help them last gen, and even MS's deep pockets has gotten them no better than 2nd place. Nintendo is taking the best approach possible: building the largest userbase. It worked pretty well for the previous 2 Playstations, the SNES, and NES after all.
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