Wii Sports is the defining game of the generation. It will eventually be considered a shoo-in for the top 10 greatest games of all time along with Pong, Space Invaders, Super Mario Bros, Tetris, etc. Best get used to it.
It is judged to be a "bad game" on traditional standards... It has no content; no so-called "depth." Of course, it is not meant to compete along traditional standards, it is meant to render them irrelevant. And it is succeeding. These awards were timed correctly so that the voters could see, for nearly a whole year, just how impactful Wii Sports was, and that is why it won awards.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
