One thing you hear the Nintendo execs and Nintendo fans say is that as this gen continues on sales of the Wii will ensure that the Wii receives humongous third party support that will bring a lot of core games to the system, but I don't really see it happening.
There are a variety of factors that would argue against this happening. The sales of core games on Wii haven't been that great and regardless of the fact that the Wii has sold 50 million units and almost doubled the marketshare of the other consoles, I still don't think the Wii is the darling of most developers. I think in Japan that is still the PS3 and that very definitely in the West it is the 360. And I feel we're too deep into this gen for there to be much of a change in that type of thinking.
So, I don't think the Wii will ever enjoy the type of support from third parties that most leading consoles including the PS2 received during their gens and time in the spotlight.
