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I think Nintendo's goal is to develop enough ongoing system seller titles for the masses themselves and therefore any 3rd party games that they get is an added bonus. I know NOA and Reggie do a lot of work with American 3rd parties to try and help the Wii in the USA, that is crucial there to be the outright winner, but in other territories, especially Japan Nintendo can hold their own by themselves. I think this is what they are trying to do with the Wii, they have had to rely on pretty much their own games all three generations the last few times, and they are probably trying to do this again... look at the MAIN selling games on DS and it's clearly controlled by Nintendo influence. IF Nintendo can keep a consistent flow of good games coming to the Wii then that can only be a good thing, and as the install base becomes larger it only becomes better and better for Nintendo and then more and more attractive for 3rd parties. I think the 5 different development options are too broad of an 'estimation' and I think you will find that it will be completely different to this. 3rd parties aren't going to come running back to Nintendo like a lot of Nintendo fans think, but new games get announced for Wii every week but none of them really seem like companies 'top tier' games which is the same thing that happened with GameCube.