WSR in Japan First Week is 87% of SW total

[Shanobi]

Joelcool7 said:

Shanobi said:
I don't know how you can say that Wii sports didn't move HW, when it's at 3.58 million copies sold in Japan alone. That's like half the entire nation's install base!

Also, Wii sports may be a "demo", but it's also awesome.

I meant it wasn't bundled with the hardware so people likely bought the hardware for other games. Also as you say thats like half their install base, Chances are many gamers didn't buy Wii for WiiSports the software probubly performed well due to the lack of competition (Only a few titles availible at launch).

It may be a fun tech demo, but you can put sprinkles on crap and say its a donut. But its still a peice of crap (Tech demo).

Wii Sports is a fantastic set of mini-games. Sorry if you can't recognize something that's brilliant, as brilliant. Wii Sports is probably the single greatest factor in the Wii thrashing those other two systems back at the launch, and is still moving systems today.

 

Oh, and look!

http://www.time.com/time/topten/2006/videogames/01.html