The dispute is not whether or not it would have had the same level of commercial success had it not been bundled, file that in the 'what if' basket, the issue is with the tag 'best-selling'.
Most people can find fault with this 'label', thus feuding the contentious debate of its use in this instance. ioi *ahem* Brett must have realised the issue and changed the article on the site to read 'most successful' instead. 'Most owned' would probably be fairer because it's success can't be measured financially or by 'what would have been it's individual sales' scenarios but by a mere attachment statistic.
The important fact is that no one is denying it's success, it's clearly number 1 for a console game. Obviously it doesn't need stipulating that this refers to console games...pfft solitaire.







