...With the Wii outselling both the PS3 and 360 by a wide margin every week and month,big 3rd party support seems a no brainer...but other than the sales numbers,I see lots of people saying "the Wii is Nintendo´s new NES/SNES"....or "the Wii is this gen´s PS1"....sales wise,yes,but in order to be "a complete SNES,PS1,etc.." wouldn´t it need LARGE numbers of MAJOR IPs by several 3rd parties?

What I´m getting at,in a nutshell,is:

For the Wii (or any current gen home system) to really be "this gen´s PS1,2"..doesn´t it need large numbers of the major series from 3rd parties?

So,to speculate....do you guys think,as time goes on,the Wii will get the "kind" of support the SNES had?...the kind the PS1 had from 1997 onward?

OH NOES! not this topic again.... if in year 2009 theres still no ips maybe you should complain, why all you people should just wait a little more? its not even half of 2008 theres still 9 months to go you know. its not that 3rd parties just suddenly create a quality title only in few months thats not that simple.

every quarter our favourite little white box gets a little better 3rd party support and this conversation gets brought up a little less.

Waters are still being tested etc and the Wiiware channel will help that as people will be more adventurous in terms of what games to try and what games to buy, this will help developers tap into markets and establish what full games to release.

Top this off with some games already getting sequels and reputations - third party support will be good enough for the Wii that if Nintendo offer full backwards compatibility next gen then they'll be fine.

Many developers are still working though their porting, fourth string developer, feet wetting and casual phases. Give them a few more years, I'm sue they'll wisen up and attempt to make some money.

Didn't the PS1 come out in 1995? And didn't FFVII come in 97?

So 95, 96 there really was not much (Tomb Raider, and Crash was about it)

it will get tons of support thru wi ware

i want complain about this. Ok in dec 2006 nobody think that wii can be the leader but now 17 months after this 3 party pass of wii.

Surelly if 3 party not support xbox 360 or ps3 they doomed but nintendo resist
Only 3 party do causual games for do profits and with this do game for the other consoles

I think Nintendo does care about 3rd parties unless not having them is hurting their HW sales... look at the DS, 3rd partys laughed at it, and now the Nintendo will have 7 10 million 1st party sellers (When AC:WW makes it).

The Wii is a young console, so we cannot determine its 3rd party support for this gen just yet, that said; I've said and I maintain that it'll get a lot less 3rd party support than the market leaser usually does.
And, remember the first 2-3 years of the PS1's life; 3rd party support was less than brilliant to say the least.
For Nintendo, lack of 3rd party support will matter a lot less than it would/will for the other two, Nintendo is largely a software company and they have some of the planets finest inhouse developers.
N64 had very little 3rd party support, but I can't remember a Ninty generation with better games tbh.

Just expect every developer to want a big game for Wii in December.
E3 will be mayhem.

Pure Speculation, but announcements I expect from rumours that go around:

Beyond Good & Evil (Ubisoft)
Kingdom Hearts 3 (Square)
Mega Man (Capcom)
Suikoden (Konami)
Timespltters 4 (Ubisoft)
Eternal Darkness 2 (Silicon Knights)

What we know:

THQ: De Blob, Deadly Creatures
Sega: Sonic Unleashed, Samba di Amigo
Marvelous: Project O
Tecmo: Rygar, Fatal Frame 4
EA: Boom Blox
Square: FF:CC: CB