It can't be fun publishing games on a console where the first party so easily overshadows all else with it's quality software.

I think Nintendo's next mission is to show that there is enough space on their console for themselves and third parties to enjoy huge success quality and sales wise.

No Nintendo is not relying to heavily on third parties on 3DS. They aren't really relying on them at all, they are allowing third parties a chance to have some success and in turn cause third parties to support the 3DS more.

Also the 3DS a sinking ship lol, Nintendo almost met their 4-million unit projection, sales are falling just short of DS which while I'd say appears alittle disapointing is still pretty good.

Infact their is overwhelming evidence including talk directly from Reggie and Nintendo heads that Nintendo purposely under marketed and under sold the 3DS. Honestly Nintendo gave the origional DS a huge marketing campaign , the Wii was around 500-million dollars marketing campaign. The 3DS, so little campaign that you barely see commercials on TV or in magazines or online.

Nintendo explained that they didn't want demand to out pace supply, that is why they did not do a huge ad campaign. It'll be interesting once Nintendo decides to turn up the heat and launch a big ad campaign. Now honestly I think that Nintendo is playing with fire by not having a huge campaign but heck why waste 500-mill promoting a device if you can't keep the device in stock and actually sell it.

Go around to your school, workplace or a social setting and ask friends and maybe even strangers what they think of the 3DS and heck they probably won't even know it exists. Right now the 3DS is being supported and marketed to one demographic the early adopting hardcore gamer, once Nintendo starts targetting other markets they will likely find huge success.

Third parties will support 3DS it is selling better then PSP and that still gets third party support. I think Nintendo will probably launch a 500-mill ad campaign right as NGP hits the market, it will be a huge battle royal and Nintendo shouldn't have a problem taking out the trash.

Will 3DS outsell DS, probably not but when Nintendo turns up the heat hopefully sales will rise!

I'm going to be cautiously optimistic that third parties aren't going to be total douche bags this time.

Are they relying on them?

If the answer is yes then yes.

I think Ubisoft has 25% of the titles on the shelf right now .

At this point I think 3rd party are harming 3DS sell's more then helping them.

If 3rd parties put effort into their games, they won't get overshadowed. They can't expect their shoddy games to sell the same as Nintendo quality games.

Aside from the launch titles, were there any new 3DS games since?

Spliter Cell 3D using a unreal engine has launch a few days ago. Its not bad considering Ubisoft made it.

They use the YXAB for the camera view direction, It works rather well. 

The thing is, everytime Nintendo does this the third parties gravitate to the competitors. There is no way Nintendo can win by getting better graphcis or online.

Wasn't that a launch title?  It was here in Europe