Just saying. You can do the math yourself. It could be that I counted mario&sonic as first party, because this site somehow says it is first party. :)

http://vgchartz.com/games/index.php?&results=50&name=&console=Wii&keyword=&publisher=245&genre=&order=Sales&boxart=Both&showdeleted=&region=All&alphasort=

Wasn't wii sold with a lot of forced bundle games in USA 2007? I am not talking about wii sports here.. I have a faint memory that it was sold with 5 games or something and you could not buy it without them. At least in some stores. :) That could skew the numbers a bit.

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Yes, I had done that. Now it lists as sega title, so my numbers were wrong. Now I got a number of 73 million third party sales on wii. Which is pretty weird. :D

 Firstly, forced bundles by the retailer would be counted in both the sales from NPD and Vgchartz. This is just a retailer making you buy more than just a console from them. Secondly, they were never that common. It was the only way to get one in some stores because it was otherwise just sold out, and no one wanted to pony up the extra cash for shitty games. Lastly, Mario and Sonic alone is not likely to account for the software discrpencies. It is a known fact that Vgchartz is under tracking almost all games. Game sales before a certain time (I forget when) are mostly not counted because the software tracking wasn't in place. The numbers you quoted just aren't that reliable especially when compared with the proffesional tracking services.

Yes, I think that they are counted on both npd and vgc. And of course that tracking problem applies to all consoles, so I don't know how big a point that is. Do you have the current ltd number from npd available? I can't find them anywhere. :P

 It certainly is a problem across all consoles, but it might not be a problem evenly distributed across all consoles. We have no way of knowing which ones should be higher or lower or how far off the numbers may be. All we have is an admittedly incomplete set of numbers for software sales. The weekly top * chart are good for what they are, but I am reluctant to use VG chartz numbers for long term.

 For complete NPD numbers I can't give you a location. For the first 23 months of a consoles life I suggest you just scroll up. That would be the complete data for the Wii and PS3 but only the first 2 years of the 360. You can already see where the numbers have some fairly large discrepencies with what you posted.

Go PS3!!!

The second set of graphs are from the same set of data as mine. They essentially show similar things. Remember that the second set of graphs is not adjusted for install base differences, which is why PS3 looks so low.

By the way, I just added to the Wii 3rd party attach rate by ordering No More Heroes from Amazon. LOL (and added to MS' first party by also ordering Banjo).

look at the graph, leave the thread.  I don't see what other evidence people want, this is right from nintendo's financial report.

Haha. This gen i laugh a lot thanks to sony force.

Great software and hardware, in both Others and AMerica. For the leading HD console.

PS3 with two great titles out, not so good. Will it ever catch.

The graph is the same as the other graph.  That graph shows that 3rd party software in the first 23 months is low for the Wii.  Not high.  You're not dividing it out by install base.  It looks like PS3 is low there, and that 360 is below Wii, but when you divide it out by console you get that Wii has the least 3rd party attach rate.  From Nintendo's own data, as you said.

You have to divide each number by 16 million, 13 million and 6 million first.

unless you want raw data and not an attach rate.  I think the point is that 3rd party software is selling well on wii.