there are probably people who find  wii sports more fun than mario bros, zelda, metroid, smb3 (personally don't know why but still)

it is just an opinion, and bundled games count in sales.

     I think this is actually the best argument for why Wii Sports' sales have a lot of weight.  Everyone who just keeps saying "I don't get how you can say...":  You're not making an argument.  You're making noise.  (Which is good fun on forums, of course.)

     On the other hand, no one really responds to the basic distinction which I think Kylie made, which is that all other bundled games are offered as premium systems...  They involve the consumer making a choice to buy the game with the system rather than just buying the system on its own.  Many of Wii Sports sales clearly didn't involve that choice* -- out of however many million sales, you can't logically make the argument that at least one or two people out of the millions didn't want the game.  So, the numbers aren't really like any other game sales numbers, bundled or not...

*except in Japan, of course!

May I suggest the following:

Wii Sports: 50 million*


*Suck it, bitch.

Those were all niche games that can't even break 20 million sales, let alone 50 or 70 or 100 BILLION or wherever Wii Sports will end up.

And IGN actually think Chrono Cross was a better game than Super Mario Galaxy, so I'd trust a politician before I'd trust IGN.

Well, he has the best idea so far.

LOL

The big thing is that if the Wii was selling like the Gamecube, then no one would even bother to defend Wii Sports or Wii Fit or Wii Play as being decent games in any way let alone trying to say they are among the best games ever made like some Nintendo fans try to go completely overboard and do.

There are four main reasons why the Wii has sold as well as it has.

One would be the fact that it was by far the cheapest of the next gen consoles when released.

Another would be the heightened demand for the Wii that existed because of shortages and limited availability for the console during Christmas '06, much of '07, Christmas '07, much of '08, and whose effect seems to have been wearing off a bit more recently.

Third they did manage to get most of their core games out in a timely fashion. Zelda as a launch title, Metroid Prime and Mario Galaxy by its first year anniversary. Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Mario Kart Wii, and Wii Fit that have been carrying it over the last year.

And lastly, the law of cycles which says that everything cool twenty years ago will eventually find a way to be cool again. Since, the NES was cool twenty years ago and Nintendo had gone through a bit of a slump the last two gens, they did catch a benefit from the law of cycles. It was just time for Nintendo to do well again.

Wii Sports had very little to do with any of these four things.

yeah i agree with you or it needs to be on the last page of the SW chart every week its just in the way of everything on the 1st page

You have the most confusing version of 'logic' that i have ever encountered.  I mean the fact that the Wii isn't selling like the Gamecube is BECAUSE OF WII SPORTS!  Give the game the credit it deserves, it's not like everyone doesn't already know the game is packed in.

Also you didn't answer my previous post, are we asterisking PS3 sales due to the fact that it was packed in with Bravia TV's in Australia?

Trolling.
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