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Rainbird on 10 April 2009
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The Ghost of RubangB said:
Rainbird said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Wii Sports is one of the greatest games ever made, one of the most revolutionary games, and one of the biggest global cultural phenomenons. It is up there with Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros., and Tetris, and that will never change.

It could get outsold in the future due to population growth and market expansion, but it will most likely be a really long time before that happens.

But I highly doubt a new gameplay interface will out-revolutionize Wii Sports for this generation, and most likely not until we get something completely new and different like smell-o-gaming or virtual reality. Anything with WiiMotionPlus is just expanding on the revolution of Wii Sports, and could be way better but not as revolutionary.

I don't understand your logic. How can any of this be attributed to Wii Sports, when in fact it has nothing to do with the game and everything to do with the Wii itself?

What is one of the most logical ways to show off motionbased controls? Sports, like baseball, golf and tennis where you swing something! If Nintendo hadn't made Wii Sports, someone else would have made a crappy compilation of watered down sportsgames to capitalize on the controlmethods presented with the Wii.

Hm, well I understand your logic, but I shall try to clear mine up.  I will respond to your 2 paragraphs in order good sir.

1) You could say that the Wii is the revolution and Wii Sports is the voice, the face, and the spokesperson of the revolution, the one that gets to be on Oprah, Ellen, Colbert, and played everywhere from convalescent homes and rehabilitation clinics to cruise ships and even played live at the Oscars.  I think it's important that years later Wii Sports is the game that gets advertised in this way, rather than any Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Brawl, or Mario Kart.  People still have Wii Sports parties, and they're bigger than Guitar Hero parties (most likely because anybody can play, and 4 people can play at once).

For many people, Wii Sports is the first game they've ever played, and is the reason they're gamers today.  Wii Sports sells the Wii.  When there were demo kiosks at the mall by my house before it launched, I saw jaws dropping everywhere, and people flocking to golf and bowl and play tennis.  The game has crazy universal appeal, and attracts non-gamers, casual gamers, and relapsed gamers like bees to sweet delicious honey.  Within the first few months after it launched, 4 of my friends bought a Wii just because they fell in love with Wii Sports at my house.

2) Several other companies HAVE made crappy compilations of watered down sports games to capitalize on the control methods presented with the Wii.  I have yet to hear anybody argue that Deca Sports or Carnival Games or Mario & Sonic at the Olympics or Wii Play are better than Wii Sports.  Everybody's waiting for Wii Sports Resort and skipping all the Carnival Games sequels.  I think Wii Sports sales in Japan alone outsell all minigame/partygame compilations worldwide, except for Mario & Sonic.

And I still play Wii Sports.  So far I think it's the type of game I can play my whole life, like Tetris and a few other classics.

A matter of perception then. In many ways, I agree with you. I would go so far as to call Wii Sports a tech demo, and depending on my mood, I might even say nothing but a tech demo.

Yes, this is what sells the Wii, and yes, people love it. But for me, the game got boring after about 10 minutes in each category of play, which I think is what makes our perceptions fundamentally different from each other.