Some people just don’t get the Wii. According to Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo’s third-party partners aren’t getting it either.
In an interview with Forbes published yesterday, the intimidating Nintendo of America president had harsh words for third-party companies struggling to find a viable consumer market on Wii.
According to Fils-Aime, their games just need to be better.
More evidence today that Nintendo’s allegedly sour press conference and subsequent lack of games in the remainder of 2008 is, as the Joker says, all part of the plan.
“I think Nintendo may be giving the software publishers a window of opportunity, probably a few quarters, where third-party games may be higher profile in stores. I also think part of it may be simply where we are in the development cycle for Nintendo first-party titles.†– Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian
More at Edge. There’s comments from third party developers who smell some blood in there, too.
This makes sense if you consider the mountain of money Nintendo sits on today, and goes hand-in-hand with previous Reggie comments about encouraging third party development on Nintendo systems. Of course, come early next year, with the arrival of Wii Sports Resort, MotionPlus and possibly Pikmin 3, all bets are off. It’s all about the money, in the end 
Third parties, I’d like to apologize.
I have been pretty scathing toward you lately. In fact, Jack and I have both been throwing rotten tomatoes at you vigorously over the last year or so, and although our chuckling behind the bushes may suggest otherwise, I feel pretty bad about it. After all, some of you are releasing really good Wii games, and it would be wrong to not recognize your successes on the same level we have pointed out your failures.
I would like to make it up to you, or at least, to those of you who aren’t infuriating me with Wii ineptitude. We have examined the Wii software library and considered a few preeminent titles on the horizon to chisel down a list of the three best third-party Wii publishers.
Of course, some bitterness remains, and since I’m fresh out of tomatoes, I have also compiled the three worst. So if any readers have rotten tomatoes on hand, stand by for some severe pelting.
