Wii Sports Resort, Nintendo’s follow-up to the pack-in game Wii Sports, handily claims the title of most-wanted Wii game among the system’s user base, but while a first-party Nintendo game took the top slot, and Sega’s Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games took the second, third parties have reason to be optimistic on the platform, which is frequently seen as somewhat inhospitable to other publishers.

With Nintendo’s volume of high-profile Wii software announcements lower than it has been at other times in the console’s life, 17 of the remaining 18 slots are occupied by offerings from major Western third parties like Electronic Arts and Activision. In fact, EA’s pledge to devote more resources to the platform may be paying off. The publisher is responsible for more than half of the entire list. Its nearest competitor, Activision, has only four.

The list?

1. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
2. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Sega)
3. Need for Speed Nitro (EA)
4. Madden NFL 10 (EA)
5. Modern Warfare 2 (Activision)
6. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (EA)
7. Punch-Out!! (Nintendo)
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (EA)
9. EA Sports Active (EA)
10. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Activision)
11. Indiana Jones & the Staff of Kings (LucasArts)
12. Boom Blox Bash Party (EA)
13. The Beatles: Rock Band (limited edition bundle) (EA/MTV Games)
14. The Beatles: Rock Band (game only) (EA/MTV Games)
15. NCAA Football 10 (EA)
16. Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Atari)
17. Tom Clancy’s HAWX (Ubisoft)
18. Grand Slam Tennis (EA)
19. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Activision)
20. Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Activision)

Source: Gamasutra