Ah, I see now what you meant in the E3 thread. However; I think you're simplifying it if you conclude that 3rd parties have no impact on Nintendo hardware sales if you're merely tallying total number of software sales and looking at how big a portion of total publishing Nintendo themselves are behind.
Why? Software diversity and major genres where Nintendo have no pedigree and/or focus (mature RPG's, racing games besides MK, FPS games, open-world style games like inFamous, Prototype or GTA etc) that have proven to be causing market movements (i.e; CoD and similar phenomenon).
Broader software library with more quality content on each front and across more genres = hitting the market constant more efficiently (that constant being that console owners buy games).








