@neos
no Pokemon Red/blue is the best selling game ever
not wii sports
shio said:
That's not it. When Wii Sports passed Super Mario Bros. numbers, it was claimed by many sites as the highest selling game of alltime, ahead of Bejeweled. Some sites even claimed it was the most successful game ever (unfortunately including VGChartz), ahead of World of Warcraft! (obviously not true).
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Read my post again: Yes, you have to use your head a bit but that shouldn't be that hard, right? It should be quite obvious that people are talking about console games. The hardcore gamers should get it anyway. Or are you scared the poor casual gamers won't get it? 
Here is my edit btw:
Another thing worth noting is that all the fuzz about Wii Sports is because it is such a mighty and big franchise now. This isn't about "but my console has the biggest games on it", this is about knowing how big of a franchise Wii Sports is now. Just look at Super Mario: It started as a bundled game on NES and is now the biggest franchise in videogaming business. And if the whole gaming world wasn't into this irrational fanboy war thing people would actually see how big of a story it is.
Oh and again, just the fact that some people are actually trying to spin this into some silly "but it is only the best selling console game of all time, not the best selling videogame!" thing shows how deep we are into this idiotic fanboy war. We are an industry full of fans who claim to be analysts and journalists, which would be funny if it wasn't that sad.
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Not bad.
But since a Wii bundled with Wii Sports costs at least $30 more than a Wii without (a Japanese Wii cost about $220 USD at launch), Wii Sports can claim over $1.2 billion dollars in consumer spending at retail. At that's not even counting all the hardware it helped to sell. You can claim that some of those people didn't want to buy Wii Sports, but they paid for it whether they wanted it or not.
Take that, dead horse!
Edit: I just noticed that they've conveniently combined all versions of Bejewelled together for these numbers... nice.
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Wii sports is good times.
I call bullshit for lack of sources. They put us as source for the sales of Wii Sports but they don't put any source for Bejeweled. Anyway, the highest selling game would most likely be Tetris or Pac-Man.
How many cups of darkness have I drank over the years? Even I don't know...
Btw shio, nice sig, it's that kind of crap that makes people hate elitist pc snots even more.
Louie said:
Read my post again: Yes, you have to use your head a bit but that shouldn't be that hard, right? It should be quite obvious that people are talking about console games. The hardcore gamers should get it anyway. Or are you scared the poor casual gamers won't get it? Here is my edit btw: Another thing worth noting is that all the fuzz about Wii Sports is because it is such a mighty and big franchise now. This isn't about "but my console has the biggest games on it", this is about knowing how big of a franchise Wii Sports is now. Just look at Super Mario: It started as a bundled game on NES and is now the biggest franchise in videogaming business. And if the whole gaming world wasn't into this irrational fanboy war thing people would actually see how big of a story it is.
Oh and again, just the fact that some people are actually trying to spin this into some silly "but it is only the best selling console game of all time, not the best selling videogame!" thing shows how deep we are into this idiotic fanboy war. We are an industry full of fans who claim to be analysts and journalists, which would be funny if it wasn't that sad. |
If someone sees an article saying Wii Sports is the most sold game ever, why would they think they're only talking about console games? Even in this thread, in a games sales forum, some people still showed up and tried to say Bejeweled isn't ahead of Wii Sports in sales.
It's like writing an article that states Shrek 2 is the highest grossing movie of all-time, then expecting people to think you're only talking about animated movies.
| dib8rman said: Wii sports is the highest selling game. Mario was the previous one. This tells one story: Wii sports and Mario are both exclusive titles, ie. If GTAIV sold over 45 million copies it would of been known as the highest selling game, in that regard guess what this means for Wii Sports? Were talking about consoles. In your case Mr/Ms of the OP minesweeper murders bejeweled, I can't imagine how many people have played baseball or even better yet soccer, while were at it let's qualify as the highest selling game: catch *When one tosses an object and the other catches it*. /Thread |
well wii sports comes with every single wii sold. So it counts the same way solitare does. Or it should. It's being forced upon people with the exception of 2 countries.
Check out my game about moles ^
Staude said:
well wii sports comes with every single wii sold. So it counts the same way solitare does. Or it should. It's being forced upon people with the exception of 2 countries. |
Oh can we please not argue this? Please? Pretty please?
(Solitaire is free to download and I can play it on Ubuntu using WINE for free; Wii Sports is factored into the cost of every Wii. You are not paying for the license to use Solitaire. You are paying for Wii Sports)
shio said:
You make no sense. Bejeweled is not a free game, it just has a free trial. The bejeweled franchise sold 24 millions on RETAIL, and knowing that almost all of Popcap's business comes from digital distribution, is it so hard to believe the franchise sold atleast 100 millions? |
Check your fact :
Casual games developer PopCap says that its seminal match-three puzzler,Bejeweled has sold over 25 million units since 2000. The figure applies to bothBejeweled and Bejeweled 2, and includes sales from web distribution partners, mobile, retail, in-flight and other channels.
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=19915
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