Will Wii Sports become the best selling game ever before 2009?

[steven787]

Lightning08 said:

Desroko said:
That approach is flawed, however, because it treats Wii Sports as dead weight, when in reality it's probably the most successful marketing tool the industry has seen in decades. It's a reason to buy the Wii, not something that's forced on people. If the Wii had been bundled with a traditional game or nothing at all, it would not have sold at a record-breaking pace.

How do you know why people are buying the Wii? Wii Sports has always been available but in Europe the console was not always selling out and it was only when the heavy hitters starting coming in that the Wii starting selling out there so I think the Wii Sports influence is no where near what Nintendo fans think it is. And Wii Sports is dead weight because if it was such a great marketing tool and everyone wanted it they wouldn't need to bundle it and force it upon everyone outside Japan, people would buy it with their own free will. Nintendo themselves made Wii Sports dead weight when they took the free will of consumers away from them and forced the game upon them.

They are doing the same with Wii Play and the controller and that's why Wii Play sales are dead weight as well. I bought an extra controller to play Wii games with my wife, it came with Wii Play, that I did not want and the same thing applies to Wii Sports. When I bought a Wii it came with Wii Sports and I never wanted it, I wanted Zelda, Metroid Prime 3 etc... The free will choice got taken out of our hands and that's why Wii Sports sales outside Japan are ultimately worthless.

 

I think that the reason why he thinks (and I think) that a good portion of people buy the Wii because of Wii sports is because:

• Wii Sports has become synonymous with  Wii on the mainstream news outlets.
• Gamers, Gaming Media, Game Retailers (regardless of their opinion of the game or the console) seem to think that Wii Sports is as revolutionary as Super Mario Bros; which was also thought of as what made the NES what it was.
• Wii Sports changed the way many people think about gaming.  It's not just for nerds to discuss or just an activity for teenage males to release adolescent masculine aggression .
• Wii play isn't "Dead weight" either, nobody is forced into buying the Wii Remote with the game.

 

Now as far as a sales pissing contest Wii Sports and Wii Play shouldn't be counted, but those types of contest matter very little in the real world. What matters is profit, and all three companies seem as if they will finally be getting theirs.