But thats only with Wii Play and Wii Sports .Zelda ,Wario Ware ,Paper Mario ,Wii Degree and Path of Radiance are all also Nintendo titles .If you add those to the Nintendo numbers the general mark it very different ...

week ending	-Wii sports and Wii play	-Wii sports	All 1st Party	3rd party
Jun 23rd	164,447      (8 games)	226,541	315,055	174,763    (19 games)
Jun 30th	288,288      (9 games)	353,364	447,820	177,241    ( " )
Jul 7th	134,937      ( " )	182,465	263,655	135,047    ( " )
Jul 14th	104,246      ( " )	158,944	247,838	118,881    ( " )
Jul 21st	93,766        ( " )	161,247	256,717	106,701    (18 games)

RE4 entered in week ending June 23rd (bringing total 3rd party to 19)

Week endin June 30th Pokemon Battle Revolution entered for 1st party and Harry Potter, Transformers, the Bigs and Ratatouille for 3rd party,.... though Sims2:pets, Fantastic4, Bust-a-move and heatseeker left top 200, leaving 3rd partys still with 19 games.

Madden NFL07 left top 200 for the week ending July 21st.

Percentages

(-Wii sports and Wii play)

(-Wii sports)

(All 1st Party)

(3rd party)

week ending
Jun 23rd			48%	52%
			56%	44%
			64%	36%
Jun 30th			62%	38%
			67%	33%
			72%	28%
Jul 7th			50%	50%
			57%	43%
			66%	34%
Jul 14th			47%	53%
			57%	43%
			68%	32%
Jul 21st			47%	53%
			60%	40%
			71%	29%

 

the last 3 weeks seem to show that the 3rd party sales are holding their own against Nintendos full priced titles, but increases in Wii shipments have increased numbers of Wii sports, and sales of Wii play (more people buying the system so more want a second controller)

and for week ending June 30th; despite 4 new 3rd party releases PBR produced a much bigger bump in 1st party sales than the 4 3rd party titles could.

generally a decline in total sales over the last 4 weeks due to no ew releases since June. (Mario strikers came this week (ending July 28th) though, not that it will help 3rd party sales.)

also i just realised i got the colours in the wrong order, i was trying to co-ordinate with the OP.

 

@Diomedes, didn't quite understand what you meant.

Why not use the yearly charts, and use those figures rather than use some of the largest 3rd party weeks the Wii has had?

It'd give a much better view of 3rd parties in the US and Japan, rather than 1 week.

But good job.

ooh, didn't realise there was a yearly American chart.

however looking at that shows 3rd parties worse off with 43% of software (excluding Wii spots and play).....probably looks worse either because 3rd parties are actually selling better now, or more likely because the yearly chart only goes down to 200, and i think all of Nintendo's Wii titles will be in it, wheras half of 3rd party titles won't be.

TWRoO said: hell ill do it for you if you like, im incredibly bored and like this sort of thing.... if you let me, bare in mind i only have MS works, so only have spreadsheet and not excel, though its just as good for things like this. all credit to your idea of course.

 you could try out the spreadsheet application included in open office

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_office 

So Nintendo has about 40% of the software sales on the Wii if you don't count Wii Play and Wii Sports.

Doesn't surprise me Nintedo has made the best games around since the NES. That's what sucks about them being first party.

I mean the Gamecube and N64 sucked sales wise... yet if you didn't buy one you were missing out on the best games of the generation that weren't FPS, RPG or Sports.

Well it's not like Sony and MS don't make a ton of first party titles either.

MS made 65 first party titles for the Xbox. 6 of those sold over a million.
Nintendo made 62 first party titles. 25 of those sold over a million.

I dunno, to me, that just sounds like Nintendo as a game developer makes some truly excellent games, and it's almost always the reason why I'd buy their console.

Kasz216 said: So Nintendo has about 40% of the software sales on the Wii if you don't count Wii Play and Wii Sports. Doesn't surprise me Nintedo has made the best games around since the NES. That's what sucks about them being first party. I mean the Gamecube and N64 sucked sales wise... yet if you didn't buy one you were missing out on the best games of the generation that weren't FPS, RPG or Sports.

actually, the yearly chart shows 57% nintendo, now as i said due to a lot of 3rd party games not being in the top 200, that may be pushed to below 50% ninty, but then there is december of last year to add which was probably mostly zelda over third parties. So overall, ignoring wii-sports and play, over 50% of sales will still be nintendo.... and in my opinion, if wii sports was sold as an actual game it could have been a 3 million seller by now anyway [1.5 ish in japan already i think?], so to totally dismiss it is wrong.

Sony and MS make a lot of first party titles too but none are really on the level of the Nintendo ones in my opinion.  Halo was great and all and a console seller for a lot of people but to me it's a pretty good first person shooter that's a lot like other first person shooters.

Just saying if there was only one system and everyone made software for it Nintendo would likely be the biggest Software company by far.  There franchise games harly ever miss.  If you plan on owning only 2 of the 3 consoles of any generation you pretty much need the Nintendo Console.

I mean i have a few friends who do pretty much nothing but bash Nintendo... yet if you go to their house they have a Gamecube for Zelda and the Mario Games (Smash, Party, etc.)  A 64 somewhere and an X-box or Dreamcast with an emulation CD to play SNES and Nintendo games.  I feel bad for them... because they hate Nintendo but can't help but buy their systems and there games. 

TWRoO said: Kasz216 said: So Nintendo has about 40% of the software sales on the Wii if you don't count Wii Play and Wii Sports. Doesn't surprise me Nintedo has made the best games around since the NES. That's what sucks about them being first party. I mean the Gamecube and N64 sucked sales wise... yet if you didn't buy one you were missing out on the best games of the generation that weren't FPS, RPG or Sports.   actually, the yearly chart shows 57% nintendo, now as i said due to a lot of 3rd party games not being in the top 200, that may be pushed to below 50% ninty, but then there is december of last year to add which was probably mostly zelda over third parties. So overall, ignoring wii-sports and play, over 50% of sales will still be nintendo.... and in my opinion, if wii sports was sold as an actual game it could have been a 3 million seller by now anyway [1.5 ish in japan already i think?], so to totally dismiss it is wrong.

I'd agree with not discounting Wii Sports as well.  Hah thing was a System seller for one of my friends.  He went from bashing the Wii to after playing Wii Bowling standing outside a Best Buy at 4 AM to buy a Wii because "The bowling game is worth the money alone."  It's just easier to not count it since the numbers point highly in Nintendo being awesome as a game developer as it is and to avoid people trying to argue it.  Well that and it seems a lot of developers weren't even trying.  I mean has anyone played "Far Cry: Vengence"?