| pntsurf1 said: But its sales numbers. Nintendo isn't making 30 or 40 dollars off wii sports. Its distorted |
You are correct to an extent. These are sales numbers but these are still sales. Most of these software titles provide a large amount of incentive to purchase the hardware. And in the case of Wii Sports you can make a good argument that people buy the console for Wii Sports specifically.
The fact is that no matter how you look at it these items are being sold and in a lot of cases they are the actual reason for the sale. Ultimately not counting them in the sales chart is fairly disingenuous on its own.
With that said it wouldn't bother me if they were marked as being bundled but then we are back in the same situation where "a newbie comes to this site with little knowledge about this industry, and sees the top games bundled, he would get a distorted view and think these weren't amazing games with great legs but just crappy pack-ins being forced on consumers."
I don't know about the rest of the pack-in games but Wii Sports has proven that it is an amazing game with great legs by its sales numbers in jJapan so I would think it at least has earned its right to stay on the list as is, but some people like to use this "bunlded shouldn't count" argument as a method to discredit Wii software sales.
My take is to just leave things as they are, people with the wrong impression are more likely to ask with the current situation than they would be if the titles were just missing.
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