Nintendo lying about third party dominance?

[HappySqurriel]

Groucho said:

bdbdbd said:
@Groucho: Not that i'd disagree with you about the profit, but it's not that simple still.

One of the most important things, when reading something, is to comprehend the context.
The context in the announcement is to kill the public misconseption of "3rd parties don't sell on Wii". That's when you can't mix it with revenue or profit, or you'd be spinning it. Therefore we have only two, comparable, correct ways of look at it (in case of time period of lifetime sales), which are: compare number of units sold during the time newer has been on the market and compare number of units sold in a same timeframe since launch.

 

I think that, when a 3rd party claims that its software isn't "selling", they tend to mean "selling enough to recoup losses, and eventually profit", almost without exception.

Of course 3rd party software "sells" on the Wii.  That's a meaningless question, and Nintendo gave a meaningless, although certainly valid, answer to it (the meaningless question), with their graph.  The question is, and that the 3rd party publishers are posing is, "does it sell well enough, such that our investment is worth it?"  That's the *real* issue, and neither company wants to address it directly, it seems.

But most third party publishers and developers have been saying that Wii software sales have surpassed their expectations ... The people who have been making claims that third party software hasn't been selling on the Wii are bloggers, analysts, fanboys, Microsoft and Sony.