Will any other game ever beat Wii Sports as the greatest game ever

[WereKitten]

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.

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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.

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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.

Most of those who had never played games before and were lured by Wii Sports have not become gamers at all.

Exactly like "The Da Vinci Code" struck gold by being a simple, smart book that somehow tickled the right spots in the western audience and grew to become an incredible success. I'm sure there were many people who hadn't read a book in many years of their adult life and that read "The Da Vince Code". And those were not readers, and the overwhelmingly majority of them still aren't readers today. And it hardly makes the book one of the greatest books ever written, only a best seller.