There is a bigger market out there for Wii games. Market results != market support. That's like saying the fact that the Apple iPod had the support of the music industry because it was selling the most music. Hint, it didn't.

I find that argument funny, because people usually didn't have a problem with PS2 almost monopolizing the industry.

obviously not, duh.  nintendo don't need them, and they don't need nintendo.

Who cares?

It'll force Nintendo to release more games.

3rd parties biggest problem is the replayability of Nintendo's titles, they can't do it. They should be thanking Nintendo for not adding online to Mario 5 and shitting bricks at the thought of a remastered Mario Allstars with fully working online mulitplayer.

I'm not buying anything from 3rd parties anymore unless it has motion plus with the exception of a 2d sonic with 4 player local. I'll enjoy throwing that little blue rat into some enemies.

Nintendo DO need third parties, they can just make a certain amount of games a year and need all diversity as possible. In fact, part of Wii success is thanks to third party games.

With that said, if Big third party companies do not want to invest on it (with good games and good advertisement), then it's a huge opportunity for small studios to capitalize. Suda 51 may have a huge opportunity with No More Heroes 2, High Voltage with the Grinder and so on.

Back in the NES era there was a big changeover with older, bigger games companies dying because the smaller ones were quicker to take advantage of the NES success. There's an Atari (I think) ad on Youtube from the era with a bunch of third party developers saying how great the console was, the names are completely unrecognisable now. So there is precedent. Unfortunately it's probably harder these days because the barriers to even Wii development are much much higher than the barriers to NES development.

Anyway, I think we should all stop worrying about this for now. 2010 is shaping up to be a great, no, amazing year. We've got lots of games to look forward to--some Nintendo, others 3rd-party (some from last year). Whether 3rd party support will dwindle or not depends upon how these games sell, but in the meantime, I feel that doom & gloom threads like this are a complete waste of time, period.

@Demotrunk:

Market sales =/= Market support?

How would that work? Where are the sales coming from? What are they buying? If there's no 3rd party support on the Wii, then where are the sales coming from? What are people buying? How are people buying products that don't exist?
If there was no 3rd party support on the Wii, there would be no 3rd party sales simply because... there would be nothing to buy.

Let's suppose we have two hypothetical consoles, console A and console B. Console A gets 50 high budget games with strong marketing etc. Console B gets 10 cheaply developed games, one of which is called Tetris Game. Tetris Game explodes on the market, vastly outselling the complex, high budget games.

By the standard you judge support, the existence of "Tetris Game" means that console B has the most industry support. But that's absurd, is it not?

The game generated 1 billion revenue, not all of that is money they "made", you gotta take out that 200 million ad campaign they touted first, then shipping, production, retail cut, development costs, taxes, etc etc...