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fastyxx said:

famousringo said:

Infamy79 said:

fastyxx said:

Seriously. The Wii sells almost 300k consoles on a sales base of 16 million, and if you take out Wii Sports and Wii Play (which we all know no one buys for the game), the Wii moves only 1.3 million software units combined? And look at the top 50 for Wii sales. Pathetic.

Why would someone choose to pay $10 more for a controller given they are never going to play the game? Wouldn't you just buy a stand alone wii-mote instead? They buy it because it's a cheap casual game library, not because they're never going to play it.

 

 

Furthermore, information gleaned from the Nintendo channel suggests that Wii Play is one of the most-played games on the Wii. As is Wii Sports, obviously. Since people pay for both games and play both games heavily, it really doesn't make any sense to pretend they aren't important.

They have been played the most because they have sold the most, and there are lots of people who never move past those games.  It's like, why is Halo 3 always in the top 2 or 3 Xbox Live games?  Because the most people own it.  it doesn't mean people don't like it or that they don't hate it.  There's just more of them.

 

 

And isn't it strange that nobody ever disqualifies Halo 3 or GTA IV because so many people own them? These double standards only seem to get applied to one console.

Also, your assumption is wrong. Wii Play's information is on a per person basis, which means it doesn't matter how many units it has sold. According to the Nintendo Channel, the average Wii Play owner has played the game for 9 hours. Pretty good value for $10, and more play time than some full-priced titles get.