Naum said: Beacuse on the 7th day God didn't rest, he created Nintendo

Oh snap! +1

Bundles and audience of casuals highly susceptible to, well pretty much any form of advertising. Alongside large install-base.

And that the 3rd party games aren't usually up to standard in either marketing or quality so most people focus there purchases on the 'Nintendo'.

Only 14million people? That's a LOT of people.

Not to mention that many people would have bought it if it hadn't been bundled, as it was a genuinely fantastic game.

Snesboy said: Naum said: Beacuse on the 7th day God didn't rest, he created Nintendo Oh snap! +1

+2

whats that has to do with my post?

Although Rol makes good points, I think this quote here actually has more to do it. Nintendo has not forgotten what games are supposed to be about, and thus not gone for Sony's graphical extravaganza or Microsoft's hormonal rush. All a game really needs to be good is to be fun -the rest can be nice, but ultimately it's all just gravy- and Nintendo's focus on this over all else is ultimately what makes its games so much better.

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You know what, this is one of the best questions that has ever been asked!

I would say that it comes down to Nintendo knowing exactly what type of things entertain and grab huge audiences..

These are the original guys from back with the original nintendo.. Theyve been attracting mass audiences with their games for years, their experience just keeps growing, their ideas stay fresh, and they continue to make art.

Non-competition. And i'm not just talking about the Blue Ocean games and such, but most of Nintendo's biggest or best-known games are hard to classify, or are in low-competition genres (nobody else really tries to make premium retail platformers, for instance, outside of Insomniac and Sonic Team)

how wrong you are.

First off, Wii Sports Resort has only been out ~9 months is still selling over 100k/week and has since it was released. So, 14m and climbinb easily to pass 20m. 30m people won't all be buying the game in the first 9 months as they probably wouldn't even produce that many. Also, Wii Sports sold to over 35% of Japanese Wii owners. Even if we said that western audiences would only have a 20% attach rate that would still be over 15m total units sold, which would still dwarf all the other competition.

So, while you may think it is a crap game, lots of people like it. I think it is a better game than the majority of games you listed that came out for PS360 over the last 4 months.