Do you honestly beleive Knack will hold that lead in the long run in the UK, let alone worldwide?

Probably not.  But I don't really have any reason to believe that 3D Worlds will match the sales of Mario Sunshine either.

It has to do with the fact that Wii U isn't going to take off and pull a Nintendo handheld manuever on the 8th Gen consoles as you inferred in your first post where you said *cough* 3DS *cough*  ( unless it gets a dramatic price cut ) because it's not going to get the games that would allow it to do so).  And Nintendo's first party "franchises" are played out like they were in the Gamecube era.

You believe...I'm sure about numbers and facts, you believe in theories. I think that's the big difference between us in regards to all this matter of assessing devs.

Tell me which investment number is biased? Racing simulators or MMO are faked audiences? I don't have man-hours work numbers but at least I showed openness to see them and discuss them (unlike you that are probably afraid of dicovering the truth). And by intellectual achievements we see at least who is digging deeper, but I guess that's not of your interest too since it doesn't favor Nintendo. The fact is, no matter the criteria we take, if it's related to the developer's commitement, Nintendo fails miserably. And please tell me how can you know that they found "oil wells" in the past? And even if they did, how can you they are still finding them nowadays? Is it again about your faith in theories?

I think these are the main 2 points of your post, since the rest falls into the same faith in theories and misjudgment of my arguments and facts. And assuming the age of a company tells about its commitment to the gamer is also very wise. You just want to believe Nintendo is the best. Actually, I didn't expect you to admit anything other than that. It would be probably an insult for you to accept that Nintendo, the game developer you love so much and that you put your money in, is so poorly commited to the gamer.

I think we're done here. Keep believing in Nintendo and putting faith in that kind of religion. As for me, I will continue to be focus on my tastes as a gamer and on numbers and facts as a forum poster (and avoiding mixing those two).

Thats how marketing works. If Sony comes out with a press release and say: Heyho! We sold 2,1 million PS4's as of dec 1, Microsoft certainly most likely will not come out with a press release stating they sold, say, 1,8 million as of dec 1. They'll just say nothing. This means we prolly will have no choice but to wait for NPD:(

They don't need too, black friday press releases are for ... black friday, in the US, where most certainly Xbox 360 sold the most.