are you looking at the thirdparty sales or what the wii u sold last week, and even this week, its just launched with mario and selling like a dead system, 16,000 this week in the states, not to mention the wiiu is having trouble running current gen ports you expect it to handle nextgen ports which will be 10x more powerful, oh dear. wanna make a bet your wrong, wanna bet the wiiu wont even sell 10 million this year, i bet a week ban bet for you and 2 weeks ban bet for me.

For me, it's pretty simple - even if I am remotely interested in a third party game for a Nintendo console, there's always at least three first party games that I see as a 'must have'. So my money (and time) goes on those games instead. The reason I love my PS3 so much is that I don't have the Nintendo first party option, which has helped me broaden my video game horizon and enjoy experiences I wouldn't have if I'd just stuck to my Wii. Nintendo first party games IMO are just that good.

Mr.Khan gave me a good old fashion growling for saying its the Wii users fault a few weeks back so I will not comment on this.

That wasn't a threat of moderation, if that was your fear. Blaming the consumer is something that is just isn't done. One thing you can say good about capitalism is that we consumers are eternally blameless, because we know what's worth buying, and if we didn't buy the games, then they weren't worth buying. It's a failure of logic that bothers me in a particularly potent way; because why should we be expected to buy shit in order to "earn" proper third party support, especially when other consoles just "get" it and never had to go through "you have to buy shit" phase?

A lot of games I own on Wii are third party (I'm a Harvest Moon/Rune factory junkie). I only just started buying more first party games because they don't ever come down on price... only so many games I can afford to keep paying for at $50 > <

The same can be said for games I've bought for others. My husband and I bought a game system for my mother/father-in-law and pretty much all of those games were third party (Just Dance, Raving Rabbids, stuff like that)

It's because 3rd partis all found out owners of only Wii consoles ony bought it for 1-2 games, and owners of Wii consoles AND a PS3 and/or 360 would have bought the original instead of a port so everyone just merrily went about their business.

I think the difference is that kind of support is expected on Wii U. Nintendo consoles have always received LEGO and Rayman games in the past.

Could you show me the post? I am really curious.

I do wonder sometimes why the Wii got hardly any 3rd party support. It was selling like crazy, cheap to develop on, and how many developers and studios have folded chasing the HD dream?
I can only assume 3rd parties were caught out with the Wiis success, they had pretty much got Sony as a nailed on winner, and then had to rush out mediocre games when Wii was gathering a huge userbase.
Some 3rd party games built specifically for the Wii were of a decent standard--Red Steel2 , Goldeneye, Epic Mickey, Sonic Colours,Monster Hunter, hell even the Conduit games had a decent engine built for the Wii.
I think the complete lack of effort from the begining paved the way, and spoilt it for the 3rd party games that actually had any effort put into them.

You mentioned it earlier. If only Wii users had bough Dead Space Extraction (and thinking about it, CoD) in larger numbers then third party support would have been much greater! Every Wii owner that bought superior Nintendo offerings instead of third party efforts should feel ashamed!