I wrote "marketing", not "promote". I wouldn't advertize your own product if you've been doing that yourselves for the other systems. That's a double standard.

but that's the main point, your thinking Marketing when 3rd party's would want Promotion ontop of Marketing.

promote by Collins

Its as I already stated.  The DS is far more popular in Japan.  So third party developers are focusing on that in Japan.  And in the 'west', the HD consoles are the craze, even if they aren't the most popular system (which is still Wii and DS).  WHich gives third party companies an excuse to work on that instead of Wii.

So basically, in Japan, the DS is taking away third party support.  And in the west, the 'HD Consoles' is taking away its third party support.

Its all how you look at it.  Did Muramasa and 428 make money?  Sure.  But on the most popular console and after being hyped as some of the best games the Wii has to offer....they should have done a lot better.  I mean heck, 428 got a perfect score in Famitsu and lots of hype in Japan, and still only sold 150,000 copies.  And I'm sure the developers for Muramasa are not complaining about the sales of their game, but its still far from a madly successful Wii game.

And Fatal Frame IV is really the best selling game in the series?  Last time I checked, it had only sold between 75,000-100,000 total.

Looking at all these totals, Little King's Story isn't looking so 'bomb' as before.  Its more like Japan just won't touch anything on the Wii without the names Mario, Wii or Resident Evil on the box.

Do Microsoft and Sony really promote third party games themselves? I was always under the impression that those commercials for third party games with 'available on 360/PS3' stuck at the end were run by the developer/publisher themselves, and Sony/MS had merely paid for the bit at the end... I mean, you can immediately tell the difference between a Sony ad for a first party exclusive and an ad for a third party game on a Sony console...

Cause Nintendo 1st party games put them to shame? lol jk

You're right they are from publishers themselves, MS/Sony pay to have their console mentioned specifically unless it's a first/second party in which case they would be the publisher. If you look at FFXIII ads they have the available on 360 bit tagged on to give people the impression that they need a 360 for FFXIII, MS pay SE for this.

With a new DS coming, Sony Move and Natal (which i think is a bad idea), Wii is going to have serious 3rd party troubles next year. I really think this is the last year for the wii. If you notice nintendo is throwing all of their chips out this year for the core... whats for next year?

Probably Dragon Quest.

"but that's the main point, your thinking Marketing when 3rd party's would want Promotion ontop of Marketing."

Did you even pay attention to what you wrote? When I asked if you think Nintendo should take of the marketing, not the promotion, you claimed they should. Now you're acting as though you meant something else. If you didn't mean that, why the hell did you write that in the first place?

because you brought up marketing, while I brought up promotion.

Which if you look at what I stated, your trying to deflect the issue, I have stated promotion.

Marketing is what you brought up. Promotion is one of the Thing's I stated that Nintendo does not do for 3rd party's.

I just stated That 3rd party's would want Marketing also , but also promotion of their product.

example:

Marketing is the process by which companies determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development It is an integrated process through which companies create value for customers and build strong customer relations in order to capture value from customers in return. Marketing is used to identify the customer.

Earlier approaches

The marketing orientation evolved from earlier orientations namely the production orientation, the product orientation and the selling orientation

Selling methods 1950s and 1960s 

A firm using a sales orientation focuses primarily on the selling/promotion of a particular product, and not determining new consumer desires as such. Consequently, this entails simply selling an already existing product, and using promotion techniques to attain the highest sales possible.

Such an orientation may suit scenarios in which a firm holds dead stock, or otherwise sells a product that is in high demand, with little likelihood of changes in consumer tastes diminishing demand.