I'm more than slightly amazed that several third party titles already (Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party, Shaun White Snowboarding are two examples) have been designed to run with the Balance Board as the primary control method. This shows an amazing display of confidence in WiiFit sales.

In the past has any peripheral control device got this amount of third party support in this short a span of time?

It's an amazing piece of hardware. It's very sensitive to shifts in body position. It opens up at lots of possibilities to creative game designers. I think it will be a great addition.

It will not appeal to the sit on the couch and wiggle your thumbs crowd but they apparently don’t like anything new or original anyway.

I was thinking the same thing earlier - so far we have Skate it, RRR3, SW Snowboarding, Family Ski, That EA exercise game and I think we all know there will be an SSX game announced by the end of the year.

How ironic would it be that the Wii balance board turned out to be such a huge factor in getting more non party games released on the Wii and became a reason for more gamers to purchase a Wii?

I reckon if it carries on at this pace at some point we may see a Wii Balance board unattached from Wii Fit and a Wii + Balance Board SKU to hit the shelves.

Square Enix says they will develop a game for the balance board, I wonder what happened on that. Seem Ubisoft is the only publisher makes use of the balanced board so far even I dont like what theyre doing now...

I really hope they do release a separate balance board, otherwise all the games using it are going to be single player or someone'll have to use a remote.

 The Rumble Pack was an add-on to the current controller - not a completely seperate peripheral controller which is what I really meant. Its nowhere near as impressive because all it involved for developers was to add in rumble in a couple of places. For the Balance Board they are developing entire - and pretty complicated - control schemes for it.

Now that I think about it the largest third party support for a new controller would be dual-shock for the PS1, but that became the main controller fairly early on in the PS1s life I think.