The top 15 selling games on Wii were all published by Nintendo. The highest selling third party game (according to Wikipedia) was Just Dance 2 in 16th place with 5 million sales - there were very few other third party games that were able to generate close to even that many sales. The Wii was a successful console, and yet no one cared about the third party support or lack thereof. It was built around games like Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii, and New Super Mario Bros Wii., all Nintendo. There is more than one way to skin this cat.
The Wii was a console built around several things (NOT just one gimmick). The contributing factors to its success were excellent Nintendo support, aggressive advertising, a competitive price, the massive success of Nintendo's other console, the DS, AND of course the Wiimote. Conversely the Wii U had lacklustre first party support through its first year, poor advertising, a high launch price, a less successful partner handheld, and a controller that does not have the same appeal as the Wiimote. Nintendo are going someway to fixing these things for Wii U, but I think it's too late to truly turn that ship around now. With Nintendo's next console, I would far rather they looked at addressing these things than third party support. Third party support will follow if the console has a successful launch. As for Wii U, looks like we have some great games to look forward to, so let's just enjoy them.
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