i dont really care about 3rd party support but it doesnt hurt to have them to see if they r good. i played 3rd party games on the ps3 and was really disappointed. other than hd graphics, gameplay was so so at best. games i got were lots of button mashing or cut scenes which drags the games out.

I lost respect for alot of 3rd party companies, because all they do is half ass games on Nintendo platform and act like we are the test subject "Cough" Dead Space Extraction "Cough". I want 3rd party games, but i want games that look like the last of us or uncharted.... an action adventure game.

take away the items and Smash is just as much as a button masher, alot of fighters can be played liked that. And whether you are interested in those games or not doesnt change the fact that ALOT of games dont make it to either PC or made it to Wii, so for someone to say all you need is a Wii and a PC and you have most of the games is FACTUAL wrong. 

cusman hit the nail on the head, the idea that 3rd parties didnt support the Wii is not really right, last i checked it had more releases than PS3 or 360. Now they might not have been the games that people here WANTED to play but hey...could have seen that coming a mile away.

Am I over it? I was never under it to begin with.


I actually prefer the current situation, because now I can use my Xbox 360 for both Halo and third party titles. Surely, Halo alone would be enough to justify the purchase anyway, but the current situation makes it easier :P

Wouldn't hurt if Nintendo got more third party exclusives though. That would be a pure win-win situation.

Nintendo not having third party support is a factually incorrect statement.

If they don't want my money, they don't get it - it would be nice to have the same 3rd party support, but it's not enough to get me to buy another console

I accept it but as the entire market shifts to tablets, I doubt it'll be sustainable for Nintendo.

Really the lack of 3rd party support, imo, was worse with the GC. While it did get good support from Ubisoft/EA my son still needed to get a PS2 to play a lot of great games - even when direct ports where simply done.

Wii actually, mathematically if you will, had monstrous 3rd party support. Just not in the form people on these forums appreciate. I own a ton of 3rd party titles for Wii from Lego, Guitar Hero, Just Dance to Dewy's Adventure, Let's Tap, Boom Blox to Fishing Resort, Driver San Francisco and Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands. All games that sold best on Wii or were unique to Wii and used it's strength.

While I was always hoping for GTA III Trilogy to be ported to Wii, I don't miss the Mass Effects, Assassin's Creeds, Uncharted, etc as those were all designed for more powerful systems and a Wii version would just be plain inferior (and sell like crap) unless it was some sort of spin-off designed around the Wii's strength (which also sold like crap, no matter how good they were).

But Wii had the 3rd party support I was looking for for what Wii was (minus the shovelware)

WiiU at the moment has good support but I fear it's support will be weakest of all as most of smaller developers and 2nd teams of larger developers will focus on tablets which are cheaper to develop for and have a much larger user base - IE: greater ROI. The Wii effect now working against Nintendo.

Core gamers and core games will continue to the more powerful system which will be 720/PS4/PC/Steam Box?

The only reason to own a WiiU (IMO) is for HD Nintendo games.

actually Nintendo has an excellent history of quality 3rd party exclusives
Square and Enix games on the SNES
Hybrid heaven, Winback, World driver, Star wars RS, Ogre battle 64, Aydin chronicles, Turok 1,2 and 3
REmake, RE Zero, Baten kaitos 1 and 2, Lost kingdom 1 and 2, Tales of symphonia, Project number 03

You repeat it enough and people start to believe.