Because there are a lot of games which would benefit from Wii controls, and some of those games don't have counterparts from Nintendo. Even though I could possibly play those games on PC or PS3, I wouldn't find most of them as enjoyable. Some of them I wouldn't find fun at all.

Though Im talking about the wii in general... most of their 3rd party games make moderate , low, or above average sales... and people keep stating the obvious is gotten tedious... its always good to see how companies you like are doing but they shouldnt be thrown as insults to the wii if it doesnt sell to expectations... and that goes for all consoles as well...

 And the xbox360 and ps3 sells boatloads of 3rd parties and no... I do not want to have smaller amount of games to play...

Angle, Gurgle, I pretty much know that there are more third parties...than they are 1st parties.

It's important because...

If 3rd party games sell well on a system, more developers are likely to waste their time supporting that system (and releasing what they- and hopefully, we - perceive as QUALITY games for the machine)instead of ignoring it...or releasing half baked second rate novelty cash-ins for it while we wait seemingly years for every decent 1st party release...

In a perfect world I should have the choice of playing all the good nintendo releases AND the likes of mw2, gta4, RE5, Assassins Creed 2, Metal Gear Solid, Bayonetta, Fallout 3, FF (insert number here) etc on one nintendo console...the same day they are released on other consoles...not crappy 2yo ports!!!

I know it aint gonna happen any time this generation (nor could it!) but a man can dream!!!!

you know if you have the money you could always buy a ps3,xbox360... is never good to limit yourself with one console... but then you would need more money for the games you just listed above

well, it doesn't mean that the game is better if it sells more (especially on Wii)

but if a genre sells more, Wii gets more games of that type from 3rd parties, like Mario-Kart style racing games or on-rails shooters for example

Although to answer your question...

I don't really care if a 3rd party game I'm interested in sells or not...(and most ofthe ones I like don't!)...not just on the wii but on any system. I don't have shares in any of these companies so it means very little...

...and I don't buy games based on how well they sell. I buy 'em based on what I've read about 'em, whether they look interesting to me etc...when I play 'em I'm not exactly sitting there saying to myself: "Wow...what a great game this is...and,oh, what a great selling game too!", Y'know???

If I cared about sales I wouldn't have stuck with nintendo through their 'unpopular' years now would I?

That's pretty weak. On a sales website, every side gets called out for poor sales.

You're joking, right? This is a really well run, tranquil, inviting place where some good intelligent conversation regarding the industry goes down. Please don't mess it up.

Anyway, I've started to stop caring about 3rd party sales just because moving forward I don't feel that the future of Nintendo does not lie in third parties, but the expansion, growth, and DIVERSITY of first and second party offerings.

@mushromboy5

You should care very much of how much a title sells, it only makes sense. For example; would'nt we allready be playing the sequel to F-Zero GX if it did'nt do abysmal on the sales charts? I think we would.

(F-Zero GX was a 3rd party game developed by Amusement Vision, and published on GC by Nintendo, instead AM have continued making new installments on Yakuza and Super Monkey Ball, couse they've sold far better)

The third party argument holds only from the surface. And goes a little like this: "Sega has a 7 million selling title on Wii and Nintendo has 20 million selling title. OMG third parties don't sell on Wii", opposing "Take Two has 5 million selling title on PS3 and Sony has 3 million selling title. OMG third parties have huge sales on PS3".

From my personal perspective, 3rd party sales in itself aren't interesting, aside from seeing how a specific game performs on the market. Which makes it equal with 1st party sales.