On another note, most 3rd parties are pretty dumb and have a severe lack of longterm plan. To me, Capcom and Square Enix are the only one with a long term plan, but even them pulled back last gen, because they couldn't believe that Nintendo would come back so fast.
I mean, if you launch a successful franchise, you hope to milk it for at least two gen. The 3rd parties were all so sure the Playstation would be the standard from now on, that they all put their eggs in the same basket before this gen even started.
Which is a TERRIBLE mistake, because if you do that, all of your famous franchises are tied to one console, which make it harder to develop and sell on another, if another console becomes dominant. Besides, you have no installed base that can drive sales on the new dominant console. Thus why Capcom was the first one able to put "high" level of technical games on the Wii (compared to last gen), besides Nintendo of course.
Most 3rd parties still haven't realized that, and go on putting their best games team on other consoles than the Wii, like THQ, because they're just not ready to even tackle Gamecube level games. In the process, they're losing lots of money and are now in trouble.
It's obvious developers have no talent, and are no good, which supposedly they are, when they're unable to put better than last gen techno on a better than last gen console. And they say the Wii is underpowered. Thank god! They can't even master it. Think of if it was more powerful, the games would appear to be far worse.
Several 3rd parties just lowered their games' marketshare this gen, but the worst danger is that if the Wii wins this gen, and the next Nintendo console starts dominating too, that will completely destroy the 3rd party franchises.
Keeping this strategy of theirs, I see most 3rd parties shunning the Wii, dieing a hard death this gen.
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