The third-party development situation for the Wii seems to be a catch-22 scenario.

As long as third-party software continues to sell poorly when compared to first- and second-party software, third parties will not make an honest effort with a first-string development team, and will fail to produce outstanding titles for the Wii.

As long as third-party developers continue to produce shovelware, their software will continue to sell poorly when compared to first- and second-party software.

A game like the Wii version of Spiderman 3 should never have been released in that condition.  But the publisher said "go ahead, release it, those casual gamers will buy anything that says "spiderman" on it while the movie is still in theaters" when they should've said "this is CRAP, fix it up, get it looking better and playing better."  They got exactly what they deserved, pathetic sales even compared to the PS3 game with a much smaller userbase.

Unfortunately, I fear this will be taken as a sign that Wii owners are only interested in Nintendo's games, rather than a sign that Wii owners are, like most gamers, only interested in GOOD games.

What devs are going to quickly learn is that its going to be more profitable to make games on the Wii then on the 360 and PS3. And because the Wii is going to have a larger catalog of games then the 360 and PS3, their games are going to have to stand out. Which means shovelware and haf-ass games on the Wii are not gonna cut it real soon. It doesn't matter if the 360 and PS3 have 'prettier' games if the games are too expensive to produce and don't sell enough copies. How many non-1st or 2nd-party exclusives remain on the PS3 and 360? Its growing smaller and smaller...

a 360/PS3 game easily sales 5 times as much as the wii version, so cut the BS that they dont sale enouth and are to expensive to produce.  A 360 game can go to PS3 a PS3 game to 360.  But you sure dont see them going to the wii.

 I'll give for 360 games, but the very charts on this site show the PS3 claim is a lie. You lying fanboy troll.

There will be a lot of Wii exclusives, and a lot of 360/PS3 multiplats. I don't think there will be very many 3rd party exclusives for 360 or PS3, but they'll still get a lot of games that the Wii won't.

lol listen to 1UP.com podcasts not that garbage...

The most agreeable and logical answer!

im sorry but im laughing at this thread lol. And 1UP's podcasts suck ckmlb listen to IGN or GameSpot's non-biased podcasts.. they are of a higher quality. Still lol at the fanboys crying about crappy 3rd party support. Nin has always sucked at 3rd party support.

 a 360/PS3 as in the two versions together, you dumb wii tool.

Some people will buy these shitty port's and etc. for some time, but when MP3 and SMG are released i don't think they won't wanna to buy these poor ports anymore, because they have been show what Wii is cabable.