TOP 10 GAME SALES WILL BE OWNED BY NINTENDO IN A YEAR!!!

[Erik Aston]

Sqrl said:
Actually that data proves my point exactly. The fact that more than 50% of people chose to buy Wii sports despite not being forced to do so says it all.

In other words, since most people would buy Wii Sports anyways. And the correct thing to do is to make the determination that effects the "actual" sales the least amount. The data you provided clearly shows that utilizing the logic you insist on following that we should be counting Wii Sports.


Since either way we decide we are going to be off the exact figures we should be using the closest match to the actual figures. Counting Wii Sports and similar pack ins makes sense, plain and simple.

Interesting. Well played, sir.

Still... I can see the value in partially discounting pack-ins... It will end up being a difficult task, but it makes for a more valid look of what are truly the most popular games ever.

Thing is, Nintendo will still own the top 10. Super Mario Bros. and Tetris would both have outsold the Sims anyways, and the same will soon apply to Wii Sports. You can't discount Pokemon R/B/G, G/S, R/S or Nintendogs for having multiple SKUs unless you seriously believe that millions upon millions of people buy multiple content-similar SKUs. You can't discount Duck Hunt or Wii Play for being inexpensive, which is really what those particular pack-in deals come down to.

So it may be in a few years that Wii Sports, Super Mario Bros., Pokemon R/B/G, Tetris, Duck Hunt, Wii Play, Pokemon G/S, SMB3, Nintendogs and Pokemon R/S will be the ten most popular games that we have on record. I mean, if you want to be honest about it. Simply pretending that all these games don't exist due to the way that Nintendo marketed and/or packaged them seems even stupider than pretending they would have sold every copy they did if they weren't pack-ins.