Wii owners, what would online play for WiiSports Resort mean to you?

[Showertea]

FaithRaven said:

Showertea said:

MANUELF said:
With online is a 10 million seller confirmed.

 

What? That doesn't make any sense. The reason the original wii sports is so ridiculously popular among non-traditional gamers is that it's easy to play. Adding an online element would complicate it and take away the only thing Wii Sports had going for it.

It's not like they would be forced to play online ...

No, but it changes the paradigm of how people talk about the game. If it had online it would appeal to traditional gamers, who would go on at length at how awesome playing on the internet is, and non-traditional gamers would hear that and think 'Eww... That sounds complicated'. By keeping it firmly in the realm of the non-traditional gamers, the word of mouth will spread the same way it did for the wii originally: people playing with their friends, people seeing famous people on morning shows and talk shows play it, ect.

Any 'hardcore' gamers who read that and get offended by that, well, Stop! The Wii Sports (and for that matter the entire Wii series) was never about the traditional gamers.