#1 Wii Article of the Day: "Wii Sports isn't a game, it has no story"

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frybread on 06 January 2009

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10131117-17.html

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.

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Hahaha, he used scare quotes

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DaveD on 06 January 2009

inb4 tetris isn't a game

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Wetcoaster on 06 January 2009

It seems like he's arguing that it's not the best game ever made even though no one claimed that it is. It only sold the best.

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WiiStation360 on 06 January 2009

So true. Unlike WiiSports, Madden as one of the best stories in gaming.

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Wii_R2_Hardcore on 06 January 2009

Poor bastard... his whole world is falling apart because of the Nintendo Wii success...

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megaman79 on 06 January 2009

Hey more free advertising

I didnt know they employed proffesional journalists at CNET anyway. Don't they all work there for free technology, kind of like whores for the technology dollar, as opposed to journalists with vision, morals and a sense about great injustice in the world.

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kylohk on 06 January 2009

Well all sports games don't have any story. Are those not games too? Haha.

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megaman79 on 06 January 2009

scratch that, bloggers illness no.1 = too much opinion and not enough fact to back it up.

“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.