Bitterness in the Wii fandom?

[Demotruk]

Ail said:

So it's all the fault of the evil Third parties.

But lets look at it from Nintendo's point of view.

Does the lack of 3rd party support affect the console sales ? I would say not a lot.

What positive effect does the lack of 3rd party support have ? My Nintendo 1st party are selling like hot cakes....

Would more third party support affect my business ? Most likely a little. better third party would eat into the sholveware sales, as Nintendo I am indifferent to this, I get the same royalty fee on either. But it would probably have a slight impact on my first party sales ( provided we consider than the overall software sales on Wii woudn't increase a tonn , just that the spread of the sales would be different..).

It almost certainly does. Take a look at these YoY comparison charts, they're a good way of viewing declining momentum that's not seen in week to week sales:

http://i511.photobucket.com/albums/s354/Demotruk/YoYWiiChart08.png

You see the trough in late 08? That's the first software drought for Wii. Nintendo had little/nothing in this period, and there were no major third party games to pick up slack.

http://i511.photobucket.com/albums/s354/Demotruk/YoYWiiChart.png

There's 09. Pretty much the whole year was a drought. It began to pick up slowly in the second half of 09 and especially in the holidays with NSMB, but there was a huge gap where Nintendo wasn't able to release any games and third parties had nothing to help.