What was the Greatest Launch Title of all Time?

[forevercloud3000]

HylianSwordsman said:

forevercloud3000 said:
I'm trying to figure out how Wii Sports isn't on this list......

Wii Sports completely set the tone for the Wii's success. The game was so well balanced with what consumers wanted out of the system that it created the issue that many Wii owners never bought another game. You really can't have a more successful launch game than that.

Someone called it a tech demo in this thread, but I feel that's a bit unfair. Tech demos don't get sequels. And that was a pretty full fledged game. From the "best objective game" perspective, it definitely doesn't win, not that it isn't good, just that it isn't Mario-Zelda level. But from the perspective of which games defined the console they were on and propelled it to the level of success it had, Wii Sports is the unquestionable winner. More so than Mario 64 for the 64, more so than Halo for the original Xbox, more so than Super Mario World for the SNES, Wii Sports' success was practically inseparable from the Wii's, and not just because it was bundled.

I mean the Title of this thread asks us to choose the best "Launch Title" I take that as not asking which is the defacto better game but the game that was best to help launch a system and get it into consumer hands. Sheer quality of game isn't as important as to how convincing was the title to it's intended user base. 

That winner is just Wii Sports in my book. I'm not a huge Wii fan....but I played the heck out of Wii Sports. Halo or Mario would be a distant but extremely strong second.

And agreed, I don't know what to say to someone who doesn't think Wii Sports is a full game. It is as about as much full game as any mini game collection title is. Mario Party, Hasbro collections, Sports Champions, etc. And "Demo" be damned, it was the most consumer convincing Demo  that ever was.