How does Nintendo manage to do it so often

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tjallern said:
Why do people count Wii Sports? Seriously... It is bundled with every Wii, besides the ones sold in Japan and only 14m people decided to buy Wii Sports Resort. Doesn't that really show that 1 out of 5 gives a rats ass about that crappy game they got when they bought the Wii? I think it is an insult to other games to try to live up to a game where close to all of the copies were bundled. It really isn't the game that sells, and Wii Sports Resort numbers backs this up. I mean, if people loved Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort numbers would be a lot higher.

how wrong you are.

First off, Wii Sports Resort has only been out ~9 months is still selling over 100k/week and has since it was released. So, 14m and climbinb easily to pass 20m. 30m people won't all be buying the game in the first 9 months as they probably wouldn't even produce that many. Also, Wii Sports sold to over 35% of Japanese Wii owners. Even if we said that western audiences would only have a 20% attach rate that would still be over 15m total units sold, which would still dwarf all the other competition.

So, while you may think it is a crap game, lots of people like it. I think it is a better game than the majority of games you listed that came out for PS360 over the last 4 months.