How many people hear complaining about Game Party reaching 1M have BOUGHT the game? Or even PLAYED the game?

I have a copy and can tell you that the Shuffle Board is cool, the darts is fun and I pulled muscles on the hoops shooting.

I will admit that the trivia is a bit lame, the skill ball is done better elsewhere (see Carnival Games), the air hockey is pedestrian and the ping cup (bear pong) is frustrating.

There is also a feature in the game for seasonal characters. For example, I could play as Santa Claus at Christmastime. I have never seen that documented, however.

Nevertheless, this game moved so well that Gamestop/EB in the US sold it for $25 -- that's a $5 mark-up on the suggested price tag.

The game scored low because it is a mini game collection and reviewers HATE those as well as it being on the Wii and reviewers HATE the system as well. (OK, I admit these are over-the-top generalizations but there is some truth to this in many instances).

I even plan to buy Game Party 2.

Movies are different, and critics are much much harsher.

In Videogames anything below a 70 is considered "bad" by gamer standards.

In movies a rating of 50-60 usually means its a decent movie to go watch. Also I try to stay away from the top rated movies by critics, i find that my enjoyment of the movie is inversely related to how hig hthe critics rate it, with few exceptions like LOTR.

I enjoyed wild hogs, i would of seen it in the movies, In a critics eye a movie is either 5 stars or 1 star.

fine, only third party games with "party" in the title sell :P

It could happen. There is a good chance. For some reason I think that it's going to be in Madrid. We'll see.

There's a reason for it being a million seller - it was priced at £19.99 upon release and it's been slashed to £12.97.

If you could pick up NMh, Z&W, Boom Blox or pro evo for just over £10.00 then hey'd be million sellers too. This is the price that Carnival games, Game Party and EA playground are all priced at and have been priced at.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_vg_h_/026-8664263-6020422?url=search-alias%3Dvideogames&field-keywords=carnival+games&x=19&y=16

A female 'casual gamer' friend of mine learned her lesson about impulse buys through this game. She actually didn't think there might be bad games. Now she doesn't buy games without asking for my opinion or checking a review.

Very true, very true.  But just because you may not like it, doesn't mean they don't either

I had the misfortune of playing Sports Party this evening. It's a similar mini game collection with eight games including volleyball, croquet and lawn darts. I tried to enjoy it but the action was painfully slow and the controls are inaccurate. I'm sure its name will guarantee it good sales though.

I blame the "casuals" lol. Seriously, I need to develop a wii title...

I have it cuz it was cheap and because i plan on owning a wii someday, plus my best friend has a wii so i can play it at his house, and it was just an average game, not horrible, not good, but a little too buggy depending on the game but the darts and hoops game makes it worth the $20.