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Esmoreit on 27 December 2008

Wow, this one is weird. Choosing Wii fit as the best game made me think that:

A: The guy was making his choice based on shockpotentional
B: On salesnumbers
C: innovativeness.

But then, he goes on to list Saints Row 2 as the worst? It's not a classic but at least it was balls to the wall fun and most of all, it worked! And it's neither good for shock-value, nor is it logical from a slaesperspective.


I'm thinking: 2008 release list and a few darts.



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thelalaby on 27 December 2008

ughhhh ipod touch is a game? and wii fit at no.1? seriously?



Avinash_Tyagi on 27 December 2008

Excellent list, Wii fit at the top

 

clearly you guys are thinking core, rather than expanded



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

Lil_D420 on 27 December 2008

no MGS4 damb there messed up



Jo21 on 27 December 2008

wii fit is not fun for us underweight people =(



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starbruin on 27 December 2008

haha wow thats a terrible list...forget the dart method i think its like what I remember once seeing a show do, let little toddlers pick and name it as such...either that or monkeys >.>



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Khuutra on 27 December 2008

Hahahaha, I like it. It really speaks as to the different values that different segments of the market can have.

I'm going to go back to playing Gears, but I still like that they didn't include it.



MontanaHatchet on 27 December 2008
Avinash_Tyagi said:

Excellent list, Wii fit at the top

 

clearly you guys are thinking core, rather than expanded

Umm, so? Madden NFL 09 All-Play (the bolded being the very definition of "expanded") is below games like Braid, Grand Theft Auto 4, and LittleBigPlanet, which could all be considered core experiences. Why aren't you complaining about that? If the quality of games was decided by how much it expanded the gaming audience, the lists would be full of Nintendo and Ubisoft titles. And not necessarily good ones.

 



 

 

Khuutra on 27 December 2008
MontanaHatchet said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:

Excellent list, Wii fit at the top

 

clearly you guys are thinking core, rather than expanded

Umm, so? Madden NFL 09 All-Play (the bolded being the very definition of "expanded") is below games like Braid, Grand Theft Auto 4, and LittleBigPlanet, which could all be considered core experiences. Why aren't you complaining about that? If the quality of games was decided by how much it expanded the gaming audience, the lists would be full of Nintendo and Ubisoft titles. And not necessarily good ones.

 

I do not think he means to say that expanded games are rated higher, here, he means to say that the perspective of the article is that of the mainstream gamer, rather than the core.



noname2200 on 27 December 2008

That list is...different.