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curl-6 on 25 May 2010
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Xoj said:
curl-6 said:

Every Nintendo console has suffered from a relatively poor relationship with third parties. They just don't like having to compete with Nintendo's 1st party mega-blockbusters.

Also, before everyone jumps on the ol' "Wii is domed" bandwagon, note that:
(A) It's still outselling its rivals despite a lack of big hardware pushers recently.
(B) People were saying the same thing about it last year, yet it had the biggest Xmas season in history.
(C) Upcoming titles like Mario Galaxy 2, Metroid Other M, Wii Relax/Party, and Zelda Wii should restore and maintain some momentum.

(D) It's summer. Things are always slow.

nintendo was a beatch on snes era, continue on n64 era.

 

third party managed to break records on the the playstation.

 

nintendo on japan it's living on new mario bros wii it main pillar MG2 drops up, it also a slow time of the year

Nintendo's 3rd party support during the SNES era was largely the legacy of them bullying 3rd parties into supporting them back in the NES era where their market share was so overwhelming they could afford to be bullies.

The N64 lost 3rd party support due to the expenses of cartidge production as opposed to CDs.

Last gen, 3rd parties figured they could afford to short-change the Gamecube due to its low install base, despite Nintendo going out of their way to appeal to 3rd parties and earn back their support. (e.g. letting third parties handle some of their franchises, like F-Zero GX)

Now that Nintendo have the market share with the Wii, 3rd parties earned a bad rep in the eyes of Wii owners by providing weak support when they assumed the system would crash and burn, then justified their poor performance by falling back on the old cliche of "only Nintendo games sell on Nintendo systems." While it's true that having to compete against the likes of Mario for gamer's dollars is harder than competing with Sony and Microsoft's smaller 1st party offerings, but companies like Capcom and Treyarch have shown that it IS possible for hardcore 3rd party content to perform well on Wii.

It's the Nintendo curse; you get top-notch 1st party games, but 3rd party support is never as strong as it could be.