With that Japanese newspaper article saying what we all suspected for a while that third parties are tentative to develop for the Wii as the bubble may burst and at the same time little titbits coming about games companies coming from other avenues ie Capybara, 100 proposals for WiiWare, the Wii's low development costs and imagination being more important than budget / graphics to carve a big hit - does anyone think by the end of the Wii's cycle there may just be a few more household developers / publishers companies names?

I just feel that the Wiiware is a great chance to experiment and get to grips with wiimote controls and if some of these new companies get 2/3 releases under their belts and get known there may be a new Capcom or Square Enix as Sony / Microsoft get more and more expensive all Nintendo have to keep doing is making the opportunties cheaper and easily accessible (to me even now with the Wii's current install base there's probably enough dev companies thinking that's a pretty tempting target audience already).

After all how many of the current companies we know of these days had we heard of before the PS2's cycle?

Or am I just rambling and talking nonsense?

http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/826/826558p1.html - Devs nervous about Wii

http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/826/826559p1.html - Capybara eyes up Wii

After mario galaxy they won't be so nervous anymore.

What I want to know is if Nintendo will really open the fllodgates and compine the Wiiware with the DS download station to open up that mass of consumers to new developers.

hmm, if it only takes two-thirds of a game to come out as a Capcom sign me up

last week american sales--7 of top ten were third party--not to mention third parties are falling over themselves to get to the wii....

i see that article being writen up like this, "yes the wii is rocking the world i am going to writ an artile that tells everyone how sure the third parties are about it *ring...ring...ring...* yes hello, what sony you want to pay me $5000 to say you think that the wii is not going ot be a sure thing with third parties?...well i dont know if that will work...what i can use you as a unnamed source and say you are a "third party" that wont develope for the wii....why that is just crazy enough to work...okay i will do i"

I'm sure there are some third parties with jitters, but they're going to have to get over it.

I also agree with the idea of the post - there may be a few new developers/publishers becoming big this generation, and there will also probably be a few going out of business.