The Wii wil never get the kind of third party support that the PS2 had.

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Mummelmann said:

Agree with OP, but you have to remember what kind of complete domination the PS2 had in its market, we won't see anything like that again for a long time.
This thread, for me, kinda falls in with the "who here still believes there'll be a major turnaround this gen?" or what the hell it was called.
Trends are mostly set and only minor shifts and changes will occur from here on out.

What I don't understand is how anyone could ever think that almost all third parties would jump ship and shift all their efforts onto a single platform within only a few years (that kinda happened with the PS1 but, again, that was an entirely different form of market domination).

Hope springs eternal for the brand faithful.

Fourth year is a bit late in the generation to see any drastic changes in developer or consumer habits with regard to the types of games being targeted at their respective markets, and the general buying habits of the consumers.

While some were predicting the runaway success of the Wii would result in some sort of mass migration to the platform as the home to the leading edge games, it hasn't happened. And even given a (truncated) 1-2 year lag between planning, development and release, it's not as though the game market is going to see an exposion of third party premiere titles on the Wii that are currently already being released on other platforms.

As many have already pointed out, the difference in hardware capabilities is simply too vast.

As others have pointed out, the demographics for the Wii market are a simply too different from the other console user bases to make a lot of what's popular on the 360 and PS3 sell as well on the Wii.

It won't happen either, but hope springs eternal for the believers.