Reggie once again promises third party support...

This is a quote from IGN's article (good read, I recommend it all) found here: http://wii.ign.com/articles/790/790916p1.html

"Let me assure you that our third party partners will also meet the needs of both audiences. As you know, third party development is moving enthusiastically to the Wii because of the innovation and because of the potential return on investment. And despite what you might have heard, to date in the US third parties have sold more Wii games than Nintendo has, and this includes all the success we've had with Zelda and Wii play."

When Reggie says "both audiences," he means core and casual gamers. So, supposedly third party support will increase, although he's been saying that for a long time. And, saying that third party titles have sold more than Nintendo games isn't saying much - Nintendo hasn't made many first party games yet, so there's not much to compete against.

What do you guys think will happen? Will third party support be the Wii's best friend, or the Gamecube all over again? I hope the third party support will in fact get better, but only time will tell.

(I'm not flaming on Nintendo or anything, I know it's very early in the console's life... I just want to know your reactions on this quote and article.)

It takes a year or more to make a decent game (cuz there are tons of 3rd party games out for Wii, but since they suck nobody counts them), 08 will have a ton of 3rd party support.

Remember what happened with DS? 3rd parties bet the on the wrong horse and PSP had a much stronger 06 in terms of 3rd parties... now all the sudden, everybodies rushing right back to DS. 

Third-party developers cannot ignore installed base, and the Wii is already rushing to the lead, so I expect Reggie's claims to be true.  If the xbox360 has sold 10.8 million consoles to date (according to http://nexgenwars.com/ ) in the 19 months it has been on the market, and the wii has sold 7.1 million in 7 months, this seems to be the likely conclusion to me. 

As a "core" gamer, I was skeptical of Nintendo's appeals to the casual crowd, but I can't argue with results.  While the core gamers often pick between the other two systems, both the core and the casual seem to be buying the wii.

That said, I'm probably going to get a 360 at some point, when the hardware problems get fixed up a bit.

It takes a year or more to make a decent game (cuz there are tons of 3rd party games out for Wii, but since they suck nobody counts them), 08 will have a ton of 3rd party support.

Remember what happened with DS? 3rd parties bet the on the wrong horse and PSP had a much stronger 06 in terms of 3rd parties... now all the sudden, everybodies rushing right back to DS.

TacoJelly

I count the games that you claim are insignificant.  Don't make such broad, baseless statements.

so far, i have only love Godfather as a third-party game, and only Zelda as a Niny game. im not that impressed...yet. fall 07 and 08 look like Wii will pick up ALOTiloverikku11

Me as well, although I will add "Super Paper Mario" to that list, and Trauma Center with the third party list.

Still, I know that Nintendo will get a ton of third party games since it's so popular, but the question is, will these games be any good? Just because the DS has a lot of third party support doesn't mean all the games are very good. There are some great ones... but it's a small amount compared to the numbers released.

I just hope the third party companies actually spend some time to work on games instead of just rushing out movie games and things like that.