That's hardly true.  1st party games may be the upfront driver, but in the end if 3rd parties bring worthwhile content, then the mass audience eats it up.  Look at Famicom, Game Boy or DS.  Wii could've been the same, but 3rd parties have dismissed, avoided and ultimately trashed it since the start of this gen.  To Nintendo's and their own detriment really.

The ''game industry'' is shrinking also, look at all the those companies that went out of business b/c of financial problems. Whose to blame? Not Nintendo, those companies made games for the PS3/XBOX360.

not all 3rd party games are trash some gems do get overlooked there are plenty of examples like madworld, zack and wiki, yet people choose wii-pay mini games over them, yeh sure they are fun for the first few times, but they get real old real quick

The problem with this is in inherently blaming the platform though, and for some reason the industry tends to do this only for Nintendo.  Chinatown Wars makes for a good example, when it "bombed" on DS it was because the platform can't sell mature games/non-Nintendo games/whatever, but then when it bombs worse on PSP it's suddenly "overhead GTA just doesn't sell as well" or "ports don't sell" or "PSN phantom markets" or whatever other retroactive excuses.

MadWorld's likely sold through near 250k NA/EU and Zack & Wiki shipped over 300k worldwide.  They most likely wouldn't have performed any better on any other platform, there's just a limited market for stuff like cell-shaded beat 'em ups or cutesy puzzle adventures, no matter where you go.

And yet the DS audience still bought far more copies.

still not trolling, sorry if it feels like that i love the wii as much as my ps3, and i still think it's a shame that such great titles get overlooked...

Sure, but these games were going to get overlooked regardless.  I think MadWorld might've done somewhat better as a PS360 game and Z&W probably would've done a lot worse.  Overall though, these are niche games, and neither likely lost money at least.

Forget this, I'm still waiting on theprof00's response to that 80s games comment..

It's easy to fault the Wii when it's the one getting all the niche games. It's not the system's fault, though - if more of these games are ported, you'd see what I'm talking about (unless I'm wrong). No More Heroes' sales on the PS3 will be one example. Besides, MH3 proved itself, and I forsee Tales doing the same.

Forget new gamers, this kind of stuff is happening to someone who has been gaming for two decades.  I'll give you one guess who that could be.

I don't care much about most third parties, I don't care much about most of their IPs, and I don't care who develops those games.  Why?  Because they have been avoiding Nintendo consoles for the past three generations.  They haven't been building their brands on Nintendo consoles, so they are starting from scratch with me.  Even then, if you put a good game on a Nintendo console I'll probably buy it, but I'm not going to spend money on a second console to get it.  Why do I only buy Nintendo consoles?  Because I know before the generation even starts that I'm going to get 10+ great Nintendo games that are going to be some of the best games the industry has to offer.

I already ignore most of the gaming media.  The only thing most of them are 'professionals' at anymore is trolling.

Yes, I know he has since pushed that prediction back to HD Wii in 2010.