Mind you, I don't think Nintendo should go third party. The kind of monopoly they have in terms of software sales on their own platforms is just too good a situation to pass up. In fact I was in a Gamestop the other day looking for a Christmas gift and I noticed virtually every new Nintendo game had dropped almost nothing in price. I was picking up a copy of NSMB2 and noticed that the original NSMB which released in 2006, almost 8 years ago, is still selling for $35. Super Mario 64 DS, a port going on 10 years old, still retails for $30. That is unheard of. No other console company has this sort of power over their pricing and library. In 5 years, SM3DW will be $50 new. Meanwhile, in 6 months or so, Sony will slash the price of GT6. MS will cut the price of their Xbone launch titles in 2014. The idea that Nintendo should go 3rd party is ludicrous. They'll lose a ton of money on software sales. It's like saying Disney should get rid of their "Disney vault". No.
But all that said, relying on unreliable sales data from years and years and years ago, in some cases decades ago, to show some sort of relevant current market logic, is equally foolish. I mean, maybe instead of closing down stores, Blockbuster should just look at some 2002-2004 charts? Nintendo has a bomba on their hands with the Wii U, and no amount of dominant NES software sales or super high handheld hardware sales with change that.
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