3rd party support for Wii is going fairly well.

[FireWater]

One of the main points that has already been established I'm sure in this forum is that Nintendo is a strictly games company, while Sony and Microsoft have other divisions that make the companies money.

Therefore Nintendo gambling on a low cost but low hardware model with an innovative control model was the best choice simply because Nintendo cannot afford to lose money on a console.

Microsoft and Sony who's systems mimic a mid level PC game gambled on the hardcore market and has paid off for MS but not so much for Sony as of yet.

I think Nintendo's strategy is brilliant, mixing in their already popular franchises with a control scheme that virtually everyone can use. Mix it the party games as well as the online play and you can turn non-gamers into gamers. The blue ocean strategy will probably explode when Wii Fit comes to America as well as Nintendo releasing to China next year.

Nintendo is operating under the guise that they have to make money on everything they sell. Gamecube was sort of a mini-disaster but nintendo bounced back from that quite well in my opinion. I expect to see sales by the end of next year reach AT LEAST 37 Million given that Nintendo intends to release to China.