Why has Japanese 3rd party support almost completely ceased for the Wii?

[joeorc]

trestres said:

oniyide said:
its simple 1 they make more money on the HDtwin systems, 3rd party games in general dont do that great on Wii, people like money

2 when then do make a Wii game its usually an inferior port or rerelease of a game already played. Why would I get a Wii version of anything if I know I could get it on the other systems?

3 Nintendo dont need them, Sony does, Microsoft absolutely does, if they never release another 3rd party game on Nintendo it wouldnt hurt there pockets at all

4 not really a point, but y dont you get a system with decent 3rd party support????

I don't get another system because I don't have money lol. But that's not my problem anyways.

Your points don't make much sense, if that what you say was true, the companies wouldn't be posting record losses, as they don't even care to make Wii SW. And Nintendo does need them. DS is not only successful due to 1st party SW, take a look at the crazy amount of titles it gets from 3rd party devs.

this pretty much answer's it:

I think this is the Key

"marketing their own video games"

Independent Publishers/Licensees/Licensed Property Owners

Nintendo licenses a number of independent third party publishers to use its patented technology, copyrights and trademarks in developing, creating and marketing their own video games. Additionally, there are a number of intellectual property rights associated with these games that are owned by these publishers. In addition, many independent property owners from such sources as movies, television, sports leagues, etc. license their intellectual properties for use in video games.

http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#independent

here is a statement:

"High-quality, effectively marketed against our installed base, will sell. Period. End of story."

-Reggie Fils-Aime

but that beg's the :

Question who's going to market the software?

nintendo or 3rd party?

see above/