 Ultimately , the GameCube failed to reinvigorate flagging support from third parties , a trend continued from the Nintendo 64 through its successor , the Wii . The Wii had mostly relied on first @-@ party titles to sell systems until 2009 when in @-@ house development could not keep up with demand for new material . This caused sales to drop and prompted a shift toward more aggressive courting of third @-@ party developers . Despite this , the Wii would go on to become one of the most commercially successful home video game consoles of all time . For the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS , Nintendo has attempted to recruit outside developers early on to avoid a repeat of what happened to the Wii and reclaim the third @-@ party support it enjoyed in the NES and SNES eras , though its success in this regard has been mixed . 
