Megaton: Wii Sports is NOT the highest selling game ever! Not even close.

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Tetris being on every device does not mean it is a fundamentally altered product. You can still buy and play the original game without any visible alteration. The fact that anyone thinks they cannot is disturbing, or actually thinks the alterations to the formula are anywhere close to overwhelming the original design is laughable. The original simple game is still the game people crave.

Are there alterations in the code itself? Yes most probably, but it does not present itself in the final product. Anymore then the alterations to code found in Zelda for the virtual console, or Fable for Live do not change the facts that they are Zelda or Fable. Now if you feel otherwise you need to start labeling Nintendo and Microsoft as liars.

The genesis of the game also does not serve as a real barrier. The license holder being a now defunct country. Which did not actually practice capitalism itself. Allowed the game to fall into a permanent twilight. Which allowed numerous parties to this very day to write their own code, and introduce the same game. Almost at inception it went right into public domain.

What is under the hood, or the name on the game have no seeming impact on the final product. Which is understandable seeing as the design is so terribly simple, and if your willing to define by what is exactly under the hood. Then games like Wii sports which will see code inclusions for things such as the peripheral enhancement that Nintendo has created would also cease to be the same product. Hell it has probably seen tweaks over the years. So you might say the original Wii Sports has probably not even sold ten million copies.

Nitpicking is a real bitch, because in the end your always left with nothing. You end up with no game selling a lot, because the owner incorporates minor changes over time. Hell even a alteration in the fine print in the games credits, or in the games player manual could allow you to discount any but the very first shipment of a game.

You can waste your time, but for me the final product is all that is relevant. Most especially if I see no difference between one instance or another. I look at my cell phone. I see the same Tetris I played on my NES. To me it is the same game, and to the vast majority of people it is the same game. I could care less if there is a code alteration in line seventy two, or whether it comes from some company I have never heard of. I know the game, and I know the name. So the answer is no your wrong, and no not every Mario game could be crammed into one.

Now if you play Super Mario 64 on your Wii. You know what I will say yeah that is the same game I played on my 64. You try to tell me Super Mario 2, and Super Mario World are the same game, and I will have to laugh in your face.