IGN - Why Super Mario Bros. is the GREATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT GAME OF ALL TIME

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t3mporary_126 said:

ArchangelMadzz said:
Wii Sports? Please explain how that could be the most important game ever created?

It probably helped Apple reconfirm there was a market for casual gamers who could enjoy games with limited but intuitive control input even in home consoles. DS's success was probably more influential to smartphone gaming though but Wii definitely proved there was a huge casual audience in the gaming market that companies could profit out of.

And now in 2015, smartphone gaming is the most profitable gaming market in just 9 years and is only getting bigger.

I was about to say it's probably the DS that did that. The Wii showed that casual gamers were willing to spend a lot of time playing games for the right price. It's not because of Wii Sports, because it was just bundled for free.

The Wii and DS are probably the most important handhelds and consoles when it comes to the biggest sect of gaming IE the casual market, because it showed they existed and wanted to play games. Another super important game for that was Farmville.