Nintendo 3rd party vs. 1st party software figures.

[Kasz216]

TWRoO said:

Kasz216 said:
So Nintendo has about 40% of the software sales on the Wii if you don't count Wii Play and Wii Sports.

Doesn't surprise me Nintedo has made the best games around since the NES. That's what sucks about them being first party.

I mean the Gamecube and N64 sucked sales wise... yet if you didn't buy one you were missing out on the best games of the generation that weren't FPS, RPG or Sports.

 

actually, the yearly chart shows 57% nintendo, now as i said due to a lot of 3rd party games not being in the top 200, that may be pushed to below 50% ninty, but then there is december of last year to add which was probably mostly zelda over third parties. So overall, ignoring wii-sports and play, over 50% of sales will still be nintendo.... and in my opinion, if wii sports was sold as an actual game it could have been a 3 million seller by now anyway [1.5 ish in japan already i think?], so to totally dismiss it is wrong.

I'd agree with not discounting Wii Sports as well.  Hah thing was a System seller for one of my friends.  He went from bashing the Wii to after playing Wii Bowling standing outside a Best Buy at 4 AM to buy a Wii because "The bowling game is worth the money alone."  It's just easier to not count it since the numbers point highly in Nintendo being awesome as a game developer as it is and to avoid people trying to argue it.  Well that and it seems a lot of developers weren't even trying.  I mean has anyone played "Far Cry: Vengence"?