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JWeinCom on 15 January 2014
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curl-6 said:
lucidium said:
curl-6 said:

No PS3 game propagated and popularized a whole genre the way Wii Sports and Wii Fit did.

No PS3 game was bundled with every single console like Wii Sports, either.

It stands to reason that more people would play the game if it came free with the console, but that's like giving a jar of marmite/vegimite away free with jars of nutella then saying Ferrero populrized marmite/vegimite.

To be accurate, Nintendo made sports games accessible to a wider audience, an aucience that wouldnt have otherwise tried it, the real question is, how popular would the game have been, had it been sold at full retail and not bundled for free.

Wii Fit was sold at retail, that did incredibly well.


Wii Sports was not bundled in Japan where it sold about 3.77 million, which was about 1 for every 4 Wiis sold.  If we assume that it would have sold at around the same rate worldwide (I think it would have sold at a higher rate in the US at least) then we can guesstimate that it would have sold about 25million copies.  So, it still would have been hugely successful.