Thanks I new he was full of crap. I know for a fact that SNES also had a much higher sales then just 20% being Nintendo first party.

You're welcome. Yeah, Ninty have always had pretty high proportions of the sales on their systems.

I've heard this claim that Nintendo isn't doing as much as in previous generations multiple times from several different people on the forums lately. I did a little research, and have posted this multiple times already. Here it is again:

Nice chart therepublic.

That is a ludicrous number of NES games, I spose back then games were quicker to make, but still. Impressive.

The Wii had the most games of any console since the NES at the end of calender year 2. Some might say Nintendo then slacked off in their third year to make room for 3rd parties, but I suspect the Wiiware games had a decent amount to do with it.

I'm one of those very people you talk about!

Thanks for your research it really helps prove my point. The Wii had the fewest first party titles launch year opposed to any of Nintendo's past platforms. I remember Reggie Initially promising 7 first party titles launch day (The beginning of my dissapointment with Nintendo). Then during the third year Nintendo published fewer games on the Wii then they did on GameCube/N64/NES. Fourth year Nintendo releases less or equal amount of first party games compared to its past consoles.

Now some will argue WiiWare should be classified as full blown games. However I view WiiWare as DLC for the most part they are cheaply developer and pushed onto market. Since virtual games never existed on prior platforms it is unfair to compair them to past platforms!

Then of these Wii games how many are hardcore? I mean not aimed at the casual market? If you take WiiSportsResort,WiiPlay, WiiFit, WiiFitPlus, WiiMusic , WiiSports, BrainTraining. That leaves the Wii retail of non-casual library games at 25, half of that of GameCube which was Nintendo's biggest failure (Marketshare wise).

They and the Metroid games and Muramasa didn't sell anywhere near as well as games rated significantly lower than them did.  You don't see that on PS3 and 360 -- much lower rated games selling significantly more than Halo or Gears or MGS and Uncharted. 

Sales =/= "AAA game"

Nintendo has released just as many games as they usually do, so please stop the wining. No, mommy doesn't love you exclusively anymore, and have to spend a little time and efford on the new kids, suck it up.

Also quite retarded that you say Nintendos titles underperforms, for obvious reasons.

"Also quite retarded that you say Nintendos titles underperforms, for obvious reasons."

At least I don't look like some German Gestapo's pansy boy in my profile pic.

One thing that should be remembered, is most of those third party million sellers sold at most like 2 million, many of Wii's first [arty million sellers went well over 5 million, some even more than 10 and 20 million, so just comparing the number of games that breach a million doesn't give you the full picture

This does not prove your point.  Over four years, Nintendo has only published two less games on the Wii than their last two consoles.  That is only half a game a year.  Are you really telling me that you miss half a game a year?  Not only that, but now there is the addition of WiiWare to consider.

As I said, the casual core thing is mostly BS.  There are good games, bad games, games you like, and games you don't like.  If you don't like some Nintendo games that is fine, but it is no excuse to say that Nintendo is slacking off, especially when there are plenty of people out there who like Nintendo's new IPs this gen.

You also compared the full six years of GC games to the four years of Wii games.  You shouldn't do that, and I even provided the correct comparisons in the chart.