Nintendo lying about third party dominance?

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FightingGameGuy said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:

scottie said:
There's only 1 way to make a fair comparison.

Wait about 10 years, until there are no 7th gen software sales

Anything put out before then is spin, accept it. Ninty published data for the first 19 months cos it showed them as winning, MS showed for the entire life of the console because that showed them as winning

 

Nintendo's graph wasn't spin.  It very clearly said exactly what it was: a comparison of the first 19 months of each system.

Microsoft's IS spin however, because it is saying that Nintendo is lying, and the evidence they supply has nothing to do with it.  Microsoft isn't discussing the first 19 months.  They're using their yearlong headstart and calling Nintendo liars.  Nintendo didn't lie.

And as usual, they're ignoring Japan.

Nintendo not spinning?  BS.

The graph Nintendo's VP pointed to first http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/nintendo-thirdparty-games-not-selling-on-wii-is-a-false-assumption/?biz=1, not the one used later by gamedaily itself as quoted by the source, absolutely is spin.

"We recently posted a story discussing the state of third-party software sales on Wii, which included a chart from Nintendo that inconveniently also lumped in first-party sales." (Quoted from the source's quote from Gamedaily -- sorry I don't know how to use multiple quotes on this site.)

Graphing 1st party + 3rd party sales while discussing 3rd party sales exclusively misleads the reader by throwing in superfluous, highly favorable information that is not relevant in any manner.

Nintendo might not have lied, but it did choose to display an irrelevant chart that portrays them as having a huge lead in place of the relevant chart where it has a much smaller lead.  Such behaviour defintely exudes questionable honesty, and certainly qualifies to be called spinning.

That's not spin.  That's an, "Oops, NPD sent us the wrong chart."    Notice later on the actual requested chart was presented and guess what....it coincided with exactly what Nintendo said to begin with.

Why is this so hard for you guys to understand?   It's really makeing some of you look logically challenged or intentionally disregarding fact for your own bias.