I'm pretty sure Wii Sports is the only game this gen that has been bundled with its console since the day its console first released.  So, the only way those other games could measure up fairly would also be if they had been bundled with their consoles since day one.

     And if New Super Mario Bros. had been bundled with the DS since Day One for the DS, then it would have sold over 100,000,000 copies.

@txrattlesnake:

This is not about fairness.

You yourself said in the OP that you don't think Wii Sports's sales are relevant because it "just isn't that good".

      Well, it is no better than an average game anyway. 76 doesn't equal greatness.

Their opinion. It's completely up to the consumer. If VGchartz did this they would have to it to every game bundled with something, which is stupid.

      Or they could remove the game totally from the sales charts because there's no way to know how much it would sell on its own other than by going with the Japanese data.

Yeah but however to  many people who own that game(the expanded audience) the 76 game is 100 times better then that 91-95 game that comes out 3-4 times a year. You can't always go by Metacritic because by that scale MKWii and Wii Fit are sub par games that doesn't equal greatness.

At this point we will never know what the sales of Wii Sports would of been if it had never been bundled. We also will never know that for Super Mario Bros or Super Mario World(which Wii Sports outsold in Japan BTW). We also will never know for Tetris or Altered Beast.

WSR will be our greatest hint as I said and I do expect higher sales in Japan(thanks to the increase in userbase and its newness) but overall I expect it to sell less world wide by a fair portion. That said I expect WSR to sell more than GTA:SA which would be the highest selling non bundled game before this gen.

WSR will only be no better than the average game because it will probably only get a 60-80 on Metacritic.......Unless these publications fear a backlash from giving a popular game such a low score.

Just like Brain Age with a 77 on MetaCritic no "better" than your average game and selling 17.5 million because it wasn't a game that alot of people liked or the 83 that Nintendogs recieved on Metacritic in which 22 million+ people bought because no one liked that game.

Or it could be that ratings for these types of games aren't realy all of that accurate since there is little in the gaming media to properly represent that demographic. It is more Akin to asking a Sci Fi fan if they liked "The English Patient" then actual review.

Well, Halo 3 is bundled in some areas, along with Lego Indy, and Kung Fu panda. LBP, Mario Kart Wii, Link's Crossbow training, Wii play, Wii Fit, SMB, and countless others can't be included. This idea is incredibly unthought out. Wii sports is actually helping Wii Numbers, so going by your logic, we shouldn't be including the Wii, because we can't tell how much it would sell on it's own other than going by Japanese data. Nicely done.

If you want to put an asterisk by every game that has ever been bundled with a console, that's fine. You'll be able to knock out a fair number of Mario and Pokemon games that way.

Just don't forget to put asterisks by MGS4, Halo 3, and many of your other favorite non-Nintendo franchises as well.

I agree with the OP but i do not think wii sports would have outsold SMB without bundling.

Does anyone else feel that this whole thread is blatant trolling for replies?