Kinda grim article but some things are spot on.

Not all is lost however. New titles are coming out of Japan. A new trend seems to be developing a lead Wii version with an HD PS3 port. Samurai Warriors 3 recently did this, and the newly announced Rune Factory: Oceans seems to be doing this as well. Even though these aren't exclusives, Wii owners should be happy that they are still able to get quality games for their system that aren't made by Nintendo. Good third party games are out there, Wii fans just need to get over this idea that they can only buy Nintendo games. This isn't a new phenomenon, Nintendo 64 and Gamecube were plagued by the same curse. The Nintendo 3DS is looking to change things, coming out of the gate with excellent third party support. Hopefully third parties won't be shocked by the Wii successor's domination like they were with its predecessor and provide it with quality support from the start. I hope so, for the gaming industry's sake. Too many independent developers have closed their doors or merged with larger publishers because they gambled and lost on this generation. The only publisher I truly believe gives the Wii a fare shake is Sega, who has benefited tremendously from doing so. That being said, I'm hoping publishers wise up and deliver higher quality support next console generation.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5889574/a_disturbing_new_trend_for_third_party.html?cat=15

I agree with everything you have said. but I dont know how well Sega games are doing on the Wii. Conduit wasnt great, Madworld HODOverkill didnt light up sales charts too. I give them props for sticking too it however. Hopefully the new Sonic does good. And kudos to you for not falling into the "3rd parties are evil and I only play Ninty games" if some fans get over their fixation they can see there are some good 3rd party games out there, just gotta get past the imaginz and bratz games.  im the reverse-Wii fan I dont really care for Ninty 1st party this gen so I have to look to 3rd parties

I bought No More Heroes and it's sequel. Third parties need to stop bitching and give us actual good games. I bought MadWorld only to find I hated it. The Conduit was average. I liked Red Steel but didn't buy the sequel.

The whole point of Wii being less powerful was so it would be cheaper to develop for. But most third parties didn't make games for cheap on it and they suffered or closed their doors. That's their problem.

This article is stating a lot of the stuff I've been maintaining, that it's the third parties' own fault, not some kind of problem with the Wii owners.

Except for the part of acting like Wii owners think they only have to buy Nintendo games. That's a contradiction when the rest of the article notes that there are few third party games Wii owners would find worth buying.

I assume they're mistaking Sengoku Basara for Samurai Warriors 3.

You beat me to the punch.

Right, and he said SW3 had a PS3 port. In a horrible miscarriage of justice, it does not.

I like the images alfredo uses in his threads. xD

It's not that we buy only Nintendo games, it's that we know that they have a higher quality for games, we can't know for sure if a third party ame is a good game or just a quick cash-in.

Microsoft and Sony have never had any problems with 3rd party software, I think Nintendo needs to look at themselves and ask why.