Too bad it's all CRAP games. I hope Wii fanboys don't use this as proof that the Wii actually has some good games that sell.

Oh look, he's playing Wii Bingo.

On the chart? The chart is first 19 months of each console, so Wii has a higher userbase in every month of the chart.

Overall, 360 leads Wii in third party software in America roughly 2:1, but as Pachter showed with his added bit of data, the 360 only has a 20% lead over the first six months of 2008, 16.5M to 13.4M, despite the install base advantage and the respective release schedules.

@mowe, you have a NES avatar yet Wii has "crap" games....


Anywho, yeah, by January the 3rd party market shift will be massively in Nintendo's favor.

UPDATE: Having read our story, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter decided to give us his take in an email: "Year-to-date (which I think is more relevant than lifetime), third parties have sold 13.4 million units of software for the Wii and 16.5 million units for the 360. That's NPD, and U.S. only. My guess is that the numbers are much closer to the same if we include Europe, and much higher for Wii if we go worldwide."

Does Michael Pachter actually do anything? He sits in his office waiting for phone calls and surfing the net for something to prove his own relevence to someone.

The myth that 'Third-party games do not sell on the Wii' comes from how few massive selling third party games there are on the Wii, and how most of the huge titles on the PS3 and XBox 360 are third party games. As many of us have been saying for months, the dominance of Nintendo on the Wii has more to do with them being the company that has released the most high quality conventional games from known franchises that were supported with a decent sized marketing campaign.

Companies that have dumped lower quality titles unconventional games (or games in unpopular genres) with limited marketing should not expect to see massive sales.

That's great for the third parties!

I'm sorry, but as much as Nintendo or its fans want to say it or graph it, 3rd party dev is still way behind the HD consoles.

The wii will get the support very soon, but it's just not there yet. I hope you guys aren't satisfied with third party support right now.

Yes because it is so untrue that there are never any shovelware on the highest selling consoles.

Nintendo already has the party game market. And January the 3rd is a really arbitrary date.