1) Because it generates a continued stream of revenus for Nintendo w/o engaging any funds (that's called royalties). Quite obviously, it's better for Nintendo if some of the royalties from Guitar Hero or any E.A. Sports titles go in their pocket, rather than in MS's or Sony's pockets.

2) Because it's a way for the Wii to be "present" even when Nintendo isen't releasing any new titles (and currently, if you except the rerelease of Pikmin & co, there isen't much from Nintendo).

3) Because Nintendo lack the resources or the skills to cover every genres by itself, and having other doing it for you is a good way to keep your customers satisfy.

4) Because some strong licences happen to be important. Wii Music was a failure, Guitar Hero is a hit. How much will youngs use the Wii if all the Harry Potters and cartoon-games they likes are on other consoles ? They will buy/use this other console instead of the Wii.

5) Because Nintendo might remember what happened to Sega for not having EA and other major 3rd parties.

6) Because it's alway best to keep good relation with 3rd parties. You might need them.

It's an advantage to have 3rd parties and given the radical change of Nintendo policy in this matter, they are perfectly aware of that.

Nintendo wants third party support to appeal to more. Nintendo is great and all, but not enough to satisfy.

What is this?.... I don't even wanna know.

quantity is always the factor that makes a console succesful: NES, SNES, Genesis, PSone, PS2..if customers doesn't see variety they set away from the product.

For talking about making money you misses the biggest and obvious reason, dude. Gotta learn more about this industry.

it's bad for thier customers, which is bad for nintendo because they'll have
less customers

they meake tons of money they are fien.simple as that.

Software moves hardware OP, Nintendo takes a license fee because they need to share the burden of distributing the hardware licensees use as a platform.

In other words if they don't have a tun of software versus their competition who also hold platforms then they seem unhealthy to any investor worth their salt. Why is because gamers flock to the platform with the most software, and usually the most software that appeals to them. In sheer numbers 90 nintendo titles over 6 years can't beat out over 1300 titles in the same 6 year period.

Yeah, no other console has third party support like that. It is pretty cool.

Troll makes ANOTHER troll thread.

yay?

best post in the whole thread  i think most people agree with what you said

"edit: i actually realized that nintendo has the mst 3rd party support now that i think of it?? wii cheer? wonder babiez? barnyard games? why are people complaining then" 

Seriously?.... anyway, I think most gamers are not interested in those games like you are (if you're actually serious and not trolling) and don't care when games like that are announced. most gamers here are more interested in games with more depth and better gameplay.

i myself would like more games on my system (who wouldn't?) especially if you only have that particular system :(   and honestly am not very interested in those particular games you mentioned.

I'm not sure what going on here... if this is an attempt at trolling then it's not a very good one :(   If you're actually arguing that less 3rd party support is better for Nintendo then i don't know what to say (obviously i don't agree).