@Groucho: You had a good breakdown, but you'd still had to cut budgets sizes into segments and sales in segments and after that look do budget and sales relate into each other. Then you'd need to cut budget into segments of developement and marketing and see which pays off. Then you'd need to take into account developement times of titles and see how fast returns you are able to get. That's what 3rd parties would listen.
Look at the above, since the graph didn't show any breakdown, we can assume that Nintendo wasn't addressing 3rd parties, and why should they be telling them when the 3rd parties have alot better numbers themselves, which has worldwide shipments, revenue and profit made by the company, unlike the NPD data for North-America.
As HS already said, Nintendo was addressing message boards, forums, blogs and gaming news sites in order to kill the wings from "3rd parties don't sell on Wii".
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
