Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its so stupid that Nintendo should be rewarded with so much success for so much lazy crap when lots of other devs are actually trying something new and getting no sales.

kind of hypocritical if you ask me. most third party devs put out a crapload of shovelware that gives the Wii such a bad rep. then when there are quality titles that come out, they don't sell well because of the bad rep.

i guess its easier to jump to the Move and Kinect rather than actually TRY and make good games on the Wii, and fix the mistakes they made.

And i just got a wii!!! :(

I guess that makes sense, plus, the developers who develop the Wii's party and family games are probably jumping to the 360 or PS3's new motion controls. I believe a new Nintendo Home Console will be announced at E3 2011 or 2012, faster than anyone else.

It was only a matter of time before companies started to pull out. The only good games for the Wii are Nintendo made games.

I hope this doesn't mean the Wii sees an early demise (even if it might already be time). Even if they are somewhat few and far between, the Wii has some good games.

it finally seems that everyone who wanted a Wii has one. not me of course! i'm getting my Wii sometime in the next few months. 3rd party companies may be leaving but Nintendo's 1st party titles are some of the best games across all 3 major gaming consoles. Nintendo, i'm still with ya!

isnt this the moron you guys posted the story about that thought kinect was gonna be under 100 and now its 150

also wii fit was a fail the wii in my house has a good number of games but i only actually own two of em super smash brothers brawl and lego batman my 360 gets all my attention though i should prob get like the new super mario brothers or something and some new psp games.

Well it was bound to happen.

Nintendo though probably realized this more then anyone else so they know what to do in case of an intimate pull back from publishers developing for their console.

And besides who here will not buy every first party game Nintendo  will release in the coming months?

I get increasingly annoyed as I see publishers pulling support. They aren't seeing good results, but instead of figuring out what the problem is, they just give up. News flash! Your Wii games aren't going to have their quality improve by supporting them less, in which case even less people will buy your game due to even worse quality. If you want to make a good game, you need to put in a little effort. MadWorld was a huge risk and paid off critically, despite being lost in the shovelanche. On top of this, most of these games are party games that don't distinguish themselves from every other party game. Publishers have no one to blame but themselves.

This just shows that people who buy the Wii don't know anything about games and only go with established franchises (like Mario and Wii Fit). Even real gamers who have the Wii just let it collect dust as they also have a PS3 or 360, and just buy games for those consoles.

OMG I wish Michael Pachter would STFU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First of all Ninty feeds off of negetive comments for people, the more you hate, the better Ninty gets.

Second. Third party developers pull out because they do half-ass work on Wii games. If you do an half-ass job, you'll get half-ass results.

That is common sence, I personly get tick off when I find news like this. They always focus on Ninty downfalls, and beat the dead house to an pulp. When M$ & Sony screws up they brush it off like dirt off there shoulders.

"Wii owners buy less games, and the ones they do buy tend to come from a very small pool of hugely successful, Nintendo-published titles"

^^^That is me exactly, all I generally buy are games like Zelda and Mario

I love Nintendo,  but they just messed up with the wii. I'd best sell it while it's still worth something...

The Move and Kinect will, in my opinion destroy the Wii. The only thing that attracted me to the wii are all those Nintendo owned characters (Mario, Link) but other than that all the other games look absolutely terrible. I've said it before and I'll say it again. STOP MAKING CONSOLES NINTENDO!!! sell all the holy grail franchises you've held on to for dear life to other companies and just sit there and watch the cash come in. just make games and sell software. oh but never let go of your iron fist on the handheld industry.

Well maybe that's because both the 360 and PS3 are responding to their mid-life span by completely changing their future with Kinect/Move.  And the Wii doesn't even have a decent online service yet.

I don't know what Nintendo expected.

An attrition of quality software could lead to the decline of the Wii...but the third-party games for the Wii hardly count as 'quality' software. Third-party publishers have mananged what, maybe half a dozen, decent games since the Wii's been on the market. It just means the Wii will no longer be flooded with terrible games.

jcho123 that doesn't make any sense. Nintendo isn't rewarded with success because a lot of their games are crap. They're rewarded with success because they're few games are so massively unbelievably successful. No one goes out and says "Nintendo is so amazing let's just buy their games to reward them."

So companies that couldn't make good games for the Wii are leaving, only to try and make Motion games for the 360 and the PS3? Now their crappy motion controlled games are going to be crap in HD and cost more, with no Wii to blame...... WAY TO STICK IT TO NINTENDO GUYS!!!!!!!!

This Pachter character needs to shut up and go manage some funds.