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curl-6 on 17 June 2015
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BMaker11 said:
curl-6 said:

No motion controls in Smash Bros Brawl, still the highest selling entry in the series.

Motion controls barely come into New Super Mario Bros Wii, and it sold 28 million copies.

Did motion help Wii sell? Of course. But it wasn't the only reason it sold. It also benefitted from giving gamers the darker, more mature Zelda they wanted in Twilight Princess, an epic and ambitious 3D Mario in Galaxy, a flagship Monster Hunter to seduce the Japanese market, etc.

SSB being the highest entry comes with the territory being on a 100M selling system. But....the GCN sold 21M and its Smash sold 7M. Seriously, do you think Brawl is just so immensely better than Melee? That it only managed 5M more on 5x the userbase?

NSMBWii is bundled to this day. 

And, like I said, you get to swing the sword in Zelda and Monster Hunter, and use motion to interact with the planets Mario is on. Knowing you can do that in games appealed to people. Just about ever Wii game could be played with a traditional controller. But the appeal of motion was the driving force behind its sales. 

Motion control wasn't the selling point of games like Monster Hunter, (which is primarily played with the classic controller) Mario Galaxy, or NSMBWii. Remove all motion control and they would still have sold well.