I think the million sellers chart is wrong. Since its acceptable to consider Wiisports to be the best selling console game of this generation, I think its fair to count bundled games like Solitaire and Minesweeper on the PC also. Since they come with every copy of Windows... Does that make them the unassailable sales leaders? I think Solitaire and Minesweeper would hold the top 10 best selling games of all times easy. I think its unfair that these games aren't counted, because if PC games are on the chart and bundled games are there too. It makes sense to count these games.

I think then, people will see the amazing dominance of PC gaming and bow down in worship to the true god of gaming.

:)

Seriously though, isn't it unfair to count game bundles as part of the "software sold" since its given away for free? It kinda skews the data a bit and if you don't count all games - like the Xbox360 arcade disk it can never be seen as representative. I don't just mean Wii bundles, there have been quite a few games bundled by Microsoft and Sony as well.

I don't think anyone ever bought Windows just to play Solitaire or Minesweeper, or at least normal people.

Wii Sports OTOH was the best selling game in Japan in 2007 and it was not bundled at all.

@FishyJoe: I think you may need to think about the elderly, I mean what else do they use computers for?

OTOH?

On the other hand.

^ On the other hand?

Oh, ok, thanks. Feel a bit stupid for not knowing, lol.

 Hes only got one (hand), thats why the Wii is such a big thing for him. .

My main point: Why count bundles at all when they aren't sold? They don't produce any revenue, they introduce fuzzyness to the numbers, and their main purpose is added value - akin to a price cut.

How in god's name do you track Solitaire and Minesweeper sales? Every Windows based computer sold since Windows 95 came out? Who in god's name knows that number?

And yes, as FishyJoe said, no one buys a computer for those two games. If a person wanted to play solitaire that bad, they'd buy a deck of cards.

Besides, who cares? Everyone knows Solitaire and Minesweeper are just shallow casual minigames that lack the depth of graphics of true games.

Because if Wii Sports wasn't counted, some other game would be purchased in its place. It's kind of hard to use a Wii without any software. Although I suppose it's possible through VC and WiiWare, but that is highly unlikely.

Really, if you don't want to count it, it isn't that hard to ignore it.