Sony - 3rd party games dont sell on wii or DS (agree or disagree?)

[Kenny]

Nintendogamer said:

Kenny said:
I hope everyone realizes that this is an argument Nintendo can't win. It's certainly not the first iteration of the argument, either - first, Nintendo was going to be doomed. When they seized the lead, the argument changed to that they don't sell software. When they overtook the competition in that, the argument changed to that they don't sell third party software. When NPD said that they overtook even the 360 in North America, the argument changed to that they don't sell more third party software than the competitors combined. And if they sell more total 3rd party software than the PS360 combined, the argument will change yet again, likely to that they don't sell more software than the PSPS360, or that they're not selling _the right_ third party games.

If Nintendo were to meet their definition of selling third party games, the argument would just change again, as it always has. That's because it's easier to arbitrarily redefine success to exclude the Wii than for the industry at large to admit they were wrong about it.

Once they find out they are proven wrong they quickly change their excuse to something else, then when they are proven wrong again they choose another excuse card, what happens if they run out? I think they are just not going to make any comment.

They will never run out, because there will always be another excuse.  Even if Nintendo wins by all objective measures, its detractors will fall back on subjective measures (the Wii isn't a true gamer's system), or on unreasonably high expectations (the Wii doesn't sell more third party software than the PSP, the PC, the PS2, the PS3, the 360, and the N-Gage combined).  And if that doesn't work, they'll just point to the usual 'test' games (eg Zack and Wiki, The Conduit) as justification for their viewpoints.  The goalposts will forever be out of the Wii's power to pass, and the past three years have made that abundantly clear.