How about this? Forget the PS2. Both the Xbox and the Gamecube had better third party support in their first 1 year and 4 months. The point I was making about shovelware wasn't that it was bad, or abundant, but that this time around, it was actually affecting third parties decisions on how much effort they'll actually put into this console. Here's Gamecube straight up against the Wii on third parties from Metacritic:
Gamecube/Wii
90-99= 9/1
80-89= 30/9
70-79= 43/29
60-69= 41/46
0-59= 42/67
Even the Gamecube, which was famous for bad third party support and was the third best selling console last gen beats out the Wii in quality. Nintendo was coming off of strained relationships with many third parties after the N64. You can argue that GC games were easily ported from PS2 and you'd be correct. That's also a problem that Nintendo brought upon themselves when they decided to not compete graphically with the other two consoles. Do I feel Nintendo deserves the whole blame? No. Do they deserve some of it? Yes.
My point with the mentioned third parties is that they still have many projects for the other two consoles into 2009. When does the Wii finally get some of those developers' time? 2009? 2010? If you want to say 2008, you can, but it would be hard to back up at that point with any releases scheduled so far. Just because the Wii is getting slightly better with third party support does not mean it's getting or will be getting what it deserves. The winning console has always had the most shovelware AND the most quality titles. I can see how the Wii will have the most shovelware, but what proof does anyone have at this point that it will also have the most quality titles?
Tag: Became a freaking mod and a complete douche, coincidentally, at the same time.
