The problem that people seem to be forgetting is that 3rd party developers have not put forth much of an effort on the Wii. Just look at what's been released. Does any think that Ubisoft's FarCry Wii game would have sold well on the Xbox 360. That was a poor effort. Driver Parallel Lines was a broken game, nothing worked. EA's Madden 08 is buggy and the online portion lagged so badly that you could not pass the ball. Also EA has made two Tiger Woods game for the Wii but the experience has not surpassed Wii Sports Golf, control wise. All Capcom has provided thus far is a port of a 2 year old game. Would any other console that depends heavily on third party support, Xbox 360 and the PS3, have survived as long as the Wii has with the kind of 3rd party support that it has received? No.
If third parties would create the core games that they normally create and sprinkle in casual games here and there to complement what Nintendo is doing. The Wii will be fine.
What's going on with the Wii is the same thing that happened with the DS. The first year the DS was released, Nintendo was the only company pushing the software. This looks to be the same case with the Wii. It's changing for the better, especially in 2008.
If Nintendo is successful at the moment, it’s because they are good, and I cannot blame them for that. What we should do is try to be just as good.----Laurent Benadiba
