'Wii Sports': Best-selling, but not best of all time

VGChartz released internal data Saturday claiming that Wii Sports, Nintendo's sports title that comes bundled with each Wii outside of South Korea and Japan, is the world's best-selling game.

According to the report, VGChartz software data for the week ending December 27, 2008, found that Wii Sports "has now passed sales of Super Mario Bros. at 40.24 million units, making it the best-selling video game of all time. The game...reached that milestone after 110 weeks of sales."

To be honest, I'm upset that this day has come. I was sure it would happen eventually, but I never believed that it would happen so soon and at the hands of a game like Wii Sports.

The title held by Nintendo's great Super Mario Bros. has been vanquished by Wii Sports and there's really nothing we can do about it. But does being the best-selling game of all time make it the best?

I don't see how anyone can call it that. Regardless of sales, Wii Sports is nothing more than a proof of concept that aims at helping new Wii converts get the feel for the console's interaction mechanism.

More importantly, I don't think Wii Sports is really a "game" in the conventional sense. It lacks a story, offers no measurable ability to get from one point to another, and boasts the most basic functionality.

Sure, it's a video game, but I don't think it can be compared on the same level with games like Super Mario Bros. or any title in the Madden franchise.

I'm more than a little upset by the news of Wii Sports taking the top sales spot from Super Mario Bros. Suffice it to say that in my mind, regardless of sales, Wii Sports will never compare to any fine franchise and to compare it as such is an insult to those titles.

It's not that I dislike Wii Sports or haven't enjoyed my time playing it. I just don't see how it can be held in the same high regard as Super Mario Bros.

I'm happy for Nintendo that Wii Sports is now the best-selling game of all time, but we should never compare that "game" to the countless others that truly fit the billing.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10131117-17.html?tag=mncol;title

This news are going around alot of sites...

Well at least its giving us some hits haha.

People need to stop bitching about this. I have to say if anything was going to take over one of the most revolutionary games ever released at least it was another revolutionary one. But people's reasons for not liking this is purely self-interested and they should be ashamed by them.

"Sure, it's a video game, but I don't think it can be compared on the same level with games like Super Mario Bros. or any title in the Madden franchise."

*blinks*

LOL I don't get it...

I'm as Nintendo as you can get but Wii Sports is definitely deeper than Super Mario Bros.

i didnt think this would become such a big deal

"Sure, it's a video game, but I don't think it can be compared on the same level with games like Super Mario Bros. or any title in the Madden franchise" Wow, I loled.

"I'm as Nintendo as you can get but Wii Sports is definitely deeper than Super Mario Bros."

i'm too scared to ask if this is sarcasm or not.

Aw, the poor core gaming media are becoming irrelevant.

It's not a game I play, but I understand it's significance, and why it is so popular. It's a pity some of the hard-core have to take this attitude, but I guess nothing else can be expected.

I am happy that the industry has expanded beyond it's little niche market, we all should be, unless that is the gamer stereotype is really true.

Since when was a story or progression required for something to be a game? Pong? Pacman? Space Invaders?