A topic recently came up in the gamespot wii forum about third party support on the system. Apparently, there's someone out there who actually buys a Nintendo system and plans to play something other than Nintendo games. I can't understand it. People don't seem to understand that no 3rd party company will ever make a quality game for the system because almost all the 3rd parties care about is making money. On the PS3 and the XBOX360, 3rd parties will be okay because there really arent all that many first party games from sony and microsoft that people even care about (heck, Halo's the only true microsoft franchise that most even bat an eye at). On Nintendo however, Nintendo is a video game maker, not just a hardware and software giant like microsoft and sony. They make great games that have lasted for generations. 3rd parties realize this and for that reason, they don't even attempt to compete with Nintendo on the system. While Nintendo puts time and effort into making tremendous games, the 3rd party companies really just care about putting together some hacked up motion controls and releasing an old game. These companies realize that even though so many people buy the Wii, most of these people really just want the Nintendo games.

And to anyone who actually buys a Wii for something other than the Nintendo games, why would you torture yourself like that. In computer terms, its the equivalent of buying a Mac and then installing Windows on the thing. Don't get me wrong, its okay to buy the occasional third party game just like its ok to install things like MS Office on your Mac. But seriously, no matter what 3rd party game your getting, theres always a nintendo game thats better.