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Jereel Hunter said:
Demotruk said:
Jereel Hunter said:
FreeTalkLive said:
Not only will it not beat Halo 3 1st week sales, Nintendo won't even ship 3 million copies for 1st week. Remember, Nintendo still cannot even make Mario Kart discs fast enough to keep up with demand.

Oh, yes though. WSR is far more important to gaming then H3 and will sell more, overall.

 

Because cute fun casual titles are important, and big budget titles with gobs of features that keep people playing 2 years after launch are just fluff?

 

 

Yes actually. People will still be playing Wii Sports (and presumably resort) for much longer than two years. I'm amazed people still don't get that.

 

 Not regularly. Wii Sports is a cool game, no question. But I, just like most people, got tired of it fairly quickly. It's moved so many copies due to being bundled with every single Wii ever sold. Halo 3 Sold 9m+ copies unbundled, and it probably sees more play on a daily basis than the 4x as many Wii Sports copies floating around out there.

You are very wrong here

The average amount ot time spent on Wii sports per user is very high... about 33-35 hours, this may not seem much to people like us (I have clocked over 110 hours on it) but you have to remember most of the owners of Halo 3 are also casual (in terms of time spent)

Halo 3 likely has a much much higher amount of time per user than Wii sports, probably one of the highest of this generation console games, but at best it will still be well under 100 hours per person.... probably around 70-80 hours.

Thus the sheer number of Wii Sports owners means it will get played a lot more, the hours are probably more spread out too, Halo 3 will have had staggering amounts of time spent on it in the weeks (and months) after launch, but it's low weekly sales now limit the possible hours compared to all the new Wii Sports owners.

A number of owners getting tired of the game doesn't stop the huge numbers of new owners playing it, in addition to those who bring it out once in a while. (Even if they are a small percentage)

Oddly enough I played Wii Sports for the first time in 11 months just 2 days ago.