| steven787 said: It's not about "good" in our perspective, it's what casual gamers buy. |
But there is certainly a difference between a good and bad "casual" title. I'd recommend a game like Mario Party or Wii Sports over Carnival Games any day of the week, and this is why you see far more copies of titles like Carnival Games traded in at stores.
Games like this were initially bought by new Wii owners awestruck by the novelty of the Wii Remote. The games that best displayed this technoology in an easy to use and intuitive manner gained the most sales, but in the end many of them weren't very good games. The people that bought them didn't play them for very long, and later traded them in. The sequels to these 2+ million selling titles ended up performing far worse than the originals (Deca Sports vs Deca Sports 2, Carnival Games vs Carnival Games: Mini Golf, Game Party vs Game Party 2), meanwhile games like Wii Sports Resort are performing excellently compared to past Wii games.
Titles like Carnival Games weren't really "good" in anybody's perspective, nor were most of the titles on the list provided earlier, the exceptions being EA Active, the Lego titles, the Rayman titles, and a few others. They just got lucky because they targeted a brand new corner of the market at a time when there was little for the market to play, and the franchises are not standing the test of time.
