Nintendo Explains the Wii's "Third Party Situation"

When we develop new hardware at Nintendo, we do so as a collaboration between the hardware development teams and the software development teams. Our software sales percentage is currently high because our internal teams know the Wii's special characteristics best, and they started development quite a bit before the Wii's release. However, we believe that eventually that will change.

We identified the same thing in the DS' first period, and the situation continues to change little by little. For the Wii too, we believe that as time passes, the proportion of high-selling titles that come from our licensees will increase. - Nintendo

Wii has a lot of good games for its first year, and while the amount of good games continues to increase some companies are still lagging behind in their support. Nintendo would like us to believe that it's because they know the Wii hardware better than everyone else. That's true, but that's not the real reason companies like Ubisoft are dumping large amounts of low budget software onto the console. No, the real reasons are many and complex, and I don't even know if I want to go into all of them.

But I'll make a quick list of some:

- Nobody thought the Wii would be this successful so they didn't prepare any games for it
- Some companies don't want to compete with Nintendo's games
- Some companies hate Nintendo
- Some companies are lazy
- Some companies want easy money through cheap games
- Some companies only want to work with the most powerful hardware
- Nintendo's focus on the casual market has wrongly convinced some that the Wii is a casual only machine
- Developing good games for the Wiimote requires skill and vision that some companies don't have
- Developing AAA quality games takes a long time and the Wii is only in its first year

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