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AndyPants on 26 April 2007
Steve 3.2 said:

If this site decided to not count Wii Sports, then it also shouldn't count the sales of titles given away for free when a store offers a free game when purchasing a 360 (which happened a lot over the holidays and still happens from time to time). Good luck trying to keep track of that.


The difference in that case is that as far as the developer is concerned, they were paid and the store is bearing the loss.  With Wii Sports its essentially builtin to the price of the Wii console.  I am sure it would be cheaper if the game was not included (as in Japan)



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ArtofAngels on 26 April 2007
Kwaad said:
Legend11 said:

ioi,

I don't understand what you mean, are you saying that xbox 360 pack-in games are counted in the weekly totals? If so how does the site know what percentage of 360s being sold has which particular pack-in game? For example Call of Duty 3 is a pack-in game with some of the newer 360s, are those numbers being added to the numbers that npd has (they aren't counting pack-in games in their numbers hence why Wii Sports isn't counted in their numbers).

It just seems odd that a game that is included with a console and doesn't bring in any additional revenue is counted against games that cost $40,$50,$60 and above.

If the Wii had come with 10 different pack-in games would the site claim that the wii's total software sales to date in the U.S. have surpassed the total software sales to date of the Xbox 360?

Ok, ioi. I agree with them on this.

If you wanna count a free game, as a sale, you should count every game in Wii sports individually, because it's 5 games, in 1! So you should actually count each game sepratly. So that means the Wii has already sold over 10million games!

Basically, unless you can buy the game in a box, I dont think it should be counted on VGcharts. 

 

 

So are you saying that game compilations such as Sega classics ect the individual games should all be counted individually? So we should of seen the original sonic up on the charts a few times last year?

 Saying that they should put each individual sports game from Wii Sports on the charts is obviously stupid and you know it.

 



grimygunz on 26 April 2007

since when does the 360 come with a pack in game i just got my 360 3 days ago and it aint have no game in it.



Cobretti on 26 April 2007

do people actually realise that wii sports is sold seperatly in japan?



Legend11 on 26 April 2007


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pcheung on 26 April 2007

I don't understand that why people keep saying that Wii Sport is a FREE game.....

In Japan, it's sold seperately.  In the American, does people understand that, Nintendo is just forcing  you to buy it with the console!

Wii is selling for 25000 yen in Japan, and that's about $210 USD with NO game bundled.  In the America, Wii is selling  for $250USD with Wii Sport bundled! So the truth is, you are paying $40 for the Wii Sport!

It's not FREE, you are acutally paying for the game! 



masschamber on 26 April 2007

I would say that fact that the copies physically exist is important when considering if the sales should be tracked it's possible to detach existing pieces of wii sports from the hardware,

Counting Wii sports is not the sane as hexic HD, hexic hd is no different then downloaded games and can't be seperated from the 360, counting hexic would be like counting the built in snail games or hang-ons and safari hunts built into the master system, I know it's a dated reference but it makes sense, physical copies don't exist

 



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Lingyis on 27 April 2007

the argument goes both ways... but the fact that it in itself is even an issue means any site that aspire to seem unbiased shouldn't be counting it.  it's an issue of credibility.  a site like this has no need to raise controversy.



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catprog on 27 April 2007

If you don't  think it should be consided then ignore it.

 

If they remove it it will generate controversy. 



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Lingyis on 27 April 2007

they added it about a month ago, had the same discussion back then, so i'm just repeating what i said. 



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