Lifespan of the Wii?

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@Shane You have some good points there. Yes, the PS3 will get some good 3rd party games for a while now, because 3rd parties investments on a console, which they thought would be a blockbuster, are too high for stepping back. But this doesn't mean that the projects COULDN'T be cancelled or moved somewhere to distant future. Also the risk of exclusives going multiplatform is quite big. I disagree on most 3rd party developers assuming PS3 being #1 eventually. Anyway if they would think so, they would still need to make money until that happens. And they do need to start focusing on quality on Wii games, because someone will focus anyway. Crappy ports are indeed Wiis problem, because 3rd parties thought that Wii wouldn't sell big amounts, so they realized too late that how Wii would sell. But Wii is also getting a lot of (better) quality 3rd party titles, thing you shouldn't forget. Bad 3rd party support on Nintendo last gen does have an influence with contracts made with 3rd party, but only for a short while anymore. If Wii starts to dominate this gen, then 360 and PS3 gets ports from Wii games, so if Wii gets spinoffs, that would mean that the spinoff would be the major francise (for example Mario series). Sony did invest too much money on PS3 to drop it in 3 years, but if it doesn't make but loss, it would be wise thing to do either drop the console business or move to next gen ASAP. Just like M$ did because they were losing so much money on Xbox. Yes, you could think Wii as white flag waving, or something really disruptive, with what you really gamble (it's a shitty situation if it fails, but if it succeeds, you really smash the competitors). GC 3rd party titles are a little different thing, there wasn't much of anything, that PS2 wouldn't offer and besides, PS2 was a lot more popular, so 3rd parties were interested in PS2. If we look at 3rd party titles on GC at the end of 2002 and compare them to PS2:s third party titles at the end of 2002, which one has the most?