What do you think will happen? Will third party support increase at a faster rate than it is now? Will sales also increase(if demand is met by then) if 3rd party support does? What is the best possible scenario for a wii owner? What is the worst?

I think alot of what is holding back some third party developers from the wii is that they could develop for the ps3 and 360 together and have a larger userbase than the Wii, with less competition from Nintendo. If 50% marketshare is acheived, then I think it would be alot harder for them to ignore the Wii. I think alot of third party developers would start to switch  more resources at a faster rate than they have been. I could be wrong though.

Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies.  Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together...

Frankly, it won't make much difference, or at least it shouldn't.

50% is nice as a psychological milestone, but knowing that Wii development budgets for an AAA game are much smaller than 360/PS3 budgets, and knowing how it's already so damn near 50%, the economics of the situation already say that developers should start putting their games on the Wii. That is unless they're being spoon-fed moneyhats from Sony/MS to keep them alive.

We are already seeing developers which made wrong bets fail hard in their financial reports. They can either continue pretending they're rock stars who don't need money and downsize / go out of business, or they can wake up, smell the coffee and thank Nintendo for making an economically viable platform.

I predict a great disturbance, as if millions of fanboy voices suddenly cry out in terror and become suddenly silenced.

World Peace

Nothing. Nintendo will just say '60% next'

Ghostbusters and Star Wars referenced off of the same question. I like it.

I think it will be recorded like this:

"...and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood. The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind. The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places. The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"

There will be at least 10 threads made all at the same time.

I think as Nintendo creeps past 50% the last handful of hold-outs (including publishers, developers and fanboys) who believe the Wii is a Fad, or that the Wii will be passed by another console, would finally lose all hope and accept the Wii's dominance.

I predict lots of pretentious, smug, and condescending threads (as has already been evidenced in this thread in the span of a few short posts).

I also predict that many projects will still be PS360 because several developers are accustomed to developing certain titles for both platforms, and that the Wii is lacking in the demographic that buys PC-based titles.

Getting 50% marketshare is not something that will magically make the whole developing world flock to the Wii. If developers want to make games on the Wii and they think Wii owners will buy the game, they release it on the Wii. If EA is bringing out a hyped new shooter title, it's unlikely they'll put it on the Wii (unless it's from an established or highly popular series).

The Wii dominates in both hardware and software each week, and yet some people constantly feel the need to create artificial new goals the Wii must reach.