Nah that ship sailed many many moons ago.

Nope. That ship has sailed. The gaming industry, or at least the console industry, has reverted back to the PS2 era again where core gamers rule. Hopefully Nintendo realizes this and focuses on that demograph.

No advertising. No help beyond 10K+

My good man, I tip my hat off to you for this comment. Hahahaha this literally made my day.

I say no, not at all because I have not even heard of Wii Sports Club. This is the first I am hearing of it, and I actually pay attention to new games coming out. There is little chance of a game that an avid gamer like myself has not heard of will have an impact on Console sales.

Very slightly.

Peeps be like, "WTF this doesn't work in my Wii?!?!"

If some commercials magically appear overnight...
No...

no. Even though I'm buying it tommorow, every bestbuy in the cincinnati area only got 4 copies at launch, so best buy, like most places I'm sure, aren't expecting any sales boost.

Maybe in Japan with the bundle, in rest of world no.