What those NPD chart numbers don't show are the number of titles in the 3rd party block compared to the number of Nintendo published titles in the Nintendo block.
That's not the data that the charts were created to show, but if they did, you would see the Nintendo published titles selling a very disproportionate number of soft units relative to the number of titles they have published.
Example: You have 100 titles selling 60% of the total soft sales vs. 20 titles selling 40% of the total soft sales. Nobody is going to argue that those 100 titles are doing better than the 20 on the other half of the chart bar.
The chart fails to put a hole in the idea that 3rd party sales on the Wii are still lagging.
What would be a better comparison is how 3rd party games are selling on the Wii relative to 3rd party games on the PS3 or 360. If that information was released, it would be FAR more useful to 3rd party developers to see which platform would yield better potential sales figures.
Either way, such a chart wouldn't matter to a newer studio with fewer resources anyway because developing for the Wii simply costs significantly less and takes significantly less time to realize revenue upon publication. That's more important than any bar chart to the developers who must take costs into strong consideration.
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