You know, for almost 3 years of existence, people saw in the Wii a large decrease of confidence from third editors. My theory is that this never happened. In fact, the third party support increased a lot in 2009.
What people aren't considering is that those games are coming from little companies, not big like Ubisoft or Square Enix. VanillaWare made Muramasa, which is a brilliant title, a treasure on the Wii. We have the feeliing that there's no good third party support, but it's completely false. What we didn't get on 2009 are Nintendo games. Big Nintendo games. Because all the little companies like X-Seeds games aren't able to create massive hype by advertising. So their games aren't big hits like Assassin's Creed 2, but they are still excellent games.
We also got very good games in 2009 on the WiiWare. Bit Trip Void, LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, Tales of Monkey Island, Final Fantasy After Years, Excitebike World Rallye...
So, I think we just get the feeling because they aren't big hit like those from third party on the PS3. Considering that, we got
Muramasa: TDB
Little King's Story
Dead Space Extraction
Resident Evil DC
Punch Out
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Wii Fit Plus
Wii Sports Resort
The Conduit
House of the Dead
MadWorld
A Boy and his Blob
Modern Warfare Reflex
http://www.nintendo-master.com/xtnews/news-22318_les_jeux_marquants_de_2009.htm
So, yes, they aren't high profile game with huge advertising, but it's a very nice effort from little third party editors. The only party you should blame are big ones: Activision, Ubisoft, Square-Enix, Capcom...
