Haven't read the rest of the thread but thought I'd point out that imo the Wii did have decent third party support. What it missed out on in terms of multiplatform titles it more than made up with some excellent exclusives. And contrary to popular belief third parties did pretty well out of the Wii platform in terms of profits gained from sales due to the much lower development and publishing costs.
Just to put things into perspective, when the Wii and PS3 launched in 2006 a PS3 dev kit would have cost publishers and developers £18,000 and a Wii dev kit cost £2000. That's almost ten times as much, I was pretty gobsmacked when one of the guys in Mastering told me whilst I was working at Eidos as a tester when I asked him.
And you fork out that sort of money and you don't even own the thing lol. :Oo
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