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

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joeorc said:

promote by Collins

1. 1) verb, to further or encourage the progress or existence of
2. 2) verb, to raise to a higher rank, status, degree, etc
3. 3) verb, to advance (a pupil or student) to a higher course, class, etc
4. 4) verb, to urge the adoption of; work for
5. 5) verb, to encourage the sale of (a product) by advertising or securing financial support
6. 6) verb, chess to exchange (a pawn) for any piece other than a king when the pawn reaches the 8th rank

so to Help with Cost's do you think 3rd party developer's need Cash to help sell their Software?

If you want me to make a Game for your system, would you think that 3rd party's are more likely to make a game if your company is willing to help off set the cost's in promotion of the 3rd party's software?

Sony an Microsoft do that.

but

do you See Nintendo doing that as much as Sony or Microsoft does?

Now if Nintendo is less likely to put promotion Money into the 3rd party's project while both Sony and Microsoft are what do you think would happen?

Nintendo doesn't like to just throw out capital for tv spots, but they do lots of co-promotion, bundling, overseas publishing, IP collaboration, etc.  In many ways Nintendo does more for 3rd parties than Sony or MS, though it is almost entirely regionalized to Japanese partners (though they've done a little for EA, Ubisoft & T2).