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padib said:
oniyide said:

the handhelds have 3rd party, they have ALWAYS had 3rd party support. DS especially.

I know. It doesn't change the fact that their 1st party sales are huge I posted the numbers a few times.

Platform Platform sales Sales as publisher Ratio
GB 501.11 230.09 45.92%
GBA 377.41 115.06 30.49%
NDS 815.43 351.48 43.10%
3DS 136.86 83.23 60.81%
Totals ->  1830.81 779.86 42.60%

I understand that 3rd party games help push the baseline of other games, but the numbers are too big to credit 3rd parties for the feats. As for 3DS, Nintendo sold 61%.

dude nobody is saying otherwise. whats up with you? ALl they are saying is you need 3rd party support to get a certain number of consoles out otherwise youre relegated to damn GC-n64 numbers. SNES had 3rd party. N64 didnt, hence massive drop. GC was a bit better, but still not equal. Wii had 3rd party contrary to popular belief. it was shovelware but people still bought it. Hell the only games being bought on Wii are 3rd party just dance and skylanders. Now if you are fine with Wii U doing GC numbers thats great. Somehow i dont think Nintendo is fine at all. So they going to have to change something.