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NightstrikerX on 05 January 2009

I have a hard time taking that, or any website's opinion who refers to Super Mario Brother's lead as top selling console game for its period of time as "A bajillion" of years. Even if it reflects our own.

I'll stick with VGChart"Z" thank you very much.



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salaminizer on 05 January 2009

well, it does look awkward haha but yeah, coming from a site named joystiq is indeed funny

so, from that other topic we can conclude that MS is funding a campaign here to praise Wii records and all, right?



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super_etecoon on 05 January 2009

I saw this yesterday and I wanted to make a thread about it....but I didn't want to jinx what I thought to be a favorable reaction to the mention of vgchartz.

The only place I saw any negativity was around the use of the "z"....which we can only expect. They didn't question the numbers or suggest that we were a copy/paste outfit looting stats from Media create or NPD. And even the comments were only negative about the bunding of the software with the hardware, which is certainly a topic that we at VGC have taken for a ride more times than I'd care to remember.

Overall, it would appear that some of the animosity against us has faded. Hopefully this is a sign of a more positive image to come.



tuoyo on 05 January 2009
thekitchensink said:

Bah!  The letter 'z' is INFINITELY superior to the letter 's'!

 

 No it's not.  The letter 'z' is why we Wii and DS owners hate Ubisoft so much.



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super_etecoon on 05 January 2009
tuoyo said:
thekitchensink said:

Bah!  The letter 'z' is INFINITELY superior to the letter 's'!

 

 No it's not.  The letter 'z' is why we Wii and DS owners hate Ubisoft so much.

erm...are you sure it's not because they make bad games?

 



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tuoyo on 05 January 2009
super_etecoon said:
tuoyo said:
thekitchensink said:

Bah!  The letter 'z' is INFINITELY superior to the letter 's'!

 

 No it's not.  The letter 'z' is why we Wii and DS owners hate Ubisoft so much.

erm...are you sure it's not because they make bad games?

 

It is because they make bad games that end with 'z'

 



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montrealsoon on 05 January 2009
Fumanchu said:

Zuburi: "How can something that's free be the "best-selling?" Is the USB cable in the ipod box the best-selling USB cable ever?"

Very astute observation - the title should be changed, as it's not nearly just semantics. The way it's worded implies that it's the most sought after or desired product given the choice of all others, when in all fairness the consumer had no choice. I think we should differentiate between the pack-ins or 'free' games and the 'best-selling' games. It should read 'most owned' game.

Maybe I'm being too much of a pedantic asshole??

Well, Wii Sports (nor the iPOD cable) are free.  If they were actually free, you could just walk out of the store with them without paying anything for them and not end up in jail.

What they are is 'included'.  The question becomes "did their inclusion help sales?".

I would say for the Wii, including Wii Sports helped sales a lot.

HELFUL pack-in's:

               - Sonic the Hedgehog with Genesis in 1991

               - Super Mario World with SNES in 1991

USELESS pack-in's:

               - Keith Courage in Alpha Zones with Turbografx in 1989

               - SUPER BREAKOUT with Atari 5200 in 1982

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



colonelstubbs on 05 January 2009

I agree with the z hate, and disagree with this being allowed the mantle of best selling game ever.

But whatever, who am i to complain?



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thekitchensink on 05 January 2009

Whether you like it or not, more people own this game than any other video game. It doesn't devalue the achievements of any previous top seller, but facts are facts.



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Mr Khan on 05 January 2009

You can see the root of the whole problem with referencing vgchartz in the joystiq article's comments



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