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DirtyP2002 on 20 October 2009
Lafiel said:
It's interesting, that Halo 3 is absent from this list, because according to VGChartz it already topped Halo 2 by a good amount in americas (Halo3: 7.43m Halo 2: 6.65m - difference 0.78m).

I'm aware that this might very well be US only, but somehow I'm not convinced canada + other america can make such a difference in this case.


Halo 2 might be undertracked. Older data is incomplete. But still strange since Bungie / Microsoft even stated that Halo 3 outsold Halo 2 months ago.

And Mario Kart Wii is at 7.57 @ VGC and even this one is not on this list.



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Kenology on 20 October 2009
bonkers555 said:
No Halo 3 on the list?

It wasn't multiplat.



Kenology on 20 October 2009
Gilgamesh said:

Wii play number 1!?

Thanks Nintendo, thanks...

You shouldn't be acting like this as an admin.



Kenology on 20 October 2009
jammy2211 said:
TWRoO said:
Wii play is an odd one because people view it in the same way they view Carnival games and Sports party and all that wank.

Thing is, Wii play has a similar amount of content, and is usually slightly better content than those games, except it costs you only 1/4 of the price, Wii Play is MEANT to be shallow.... and it's price reflects how much was spent developing it compared to other games. It costs all of £5 or $10.... unlike the other, roughly equal in content games, that cost at least standard budget price (which in the UK is £20, so 4 times as much... not sure how it works out elsewhere) if not full price, which is £30-35.

For instance, the Xbox live version of Geometry Wars Retro Evolved can be bought as a disc Wii game... the XBL version has very little content really.... so imagine that as Wii Play..... if the Wii version on disc, costing budget price (£20 / 3* as much money) had exactly the same content then it would be equivalent to some of the Wii shovel ware.
However, there is a hell of a lot more content in the Wii version las it has the same as the XBL version, plus a multi player version of it, plus over 60 other different levels to go through with varying difficulties (and even more if you buy the DS version and connect them together) so it's price is justified.

 I think people just think it's a shame that the best selling game of the decade is a budget prized minigame collection that sold because it came with a controller.

 It's good money and whatnot, but as you say, it is a shallow game, and I'd personally like the 'top' game of the past 10 years to be something that shows off gaming for the depth and possibilities that I love gaming for.

Well, it is what it is.

You guys just need to get over it!



SlipperyMooseCakes on 20 October 2009

To all the people wondering where Halo 3 is, relax. This is just for America so this isn't the full 10+ million copies of Halo 3 that have been sold, only the NA. You also have to take into consideration Halo 3 was only released onto the Xbox 360 where as Halo 2 was on the original Xbox and on PC.



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wholikeswood on 20 October 2009
Kenology said:
bonkers555 said:
No Halo 3 on the list?

It wasn't multiplat.

No was Halo 2, but that's there at #10.



Kenology on 20 October 2009
wholikeswood said:
Kenology said:
bonkers555 said:
No Halo 3 on the list?

It wasn't multiplat.

No was Halo 2, but that's there at #10.

We must have that game undertracked then...



Yakuzaice on 20 October 2009
SlipperyMooseCakes said:
To all the people wondering where Halo 3 is, relax. This is just for America so this isn't the full 10+ million copies of Halo 3 that have been sold, only the NA. You also have to take into consideration Halo 3 was only released onto the Xbox 360 where as Halo 2 was on the original Xbox and on PC.

This doesn't include PC games.  Or else The Sims would be near the top, and WoW would probably be on there too.



Barozi on 20 October 2009
jammy2211 said:
TWRoO said:
Wii play is an odd one because people view it in the same way they view Carnival games and Sports party and all that wank.

Thing is, Wii play has a similar amount of content, and is usually slightly better content than those games, except it costs you only 1/4 of the price, Wii Play is MEANT to be shallow.... and it's price reflects how much was spent developing it compared to other games. It costs all of £5 or $10.... unlike the other, roughly equal in content games, that cost at least standard budget price (which in the UK is £20, so 4 times as much... not sure how it works out elsewhere) if not full price, which is £30-35.

For instance, the Xbox live version of Geometry Wars Retro Evolved can be bought as a disc Wii game... the XBL version has very little content really.... so imagine that as Wii Play..... if the Wii version on disc, costing budget price (£20 / 3* as much money) had exactly the same content then it would be equivalent to some of the Wii shovel ware.
However, there is a hell of a lot more content in the Wii version las it has the same as the XBL version, plus a multi player version of it, plus over 60 other different levels to go through with varying difficulties (and even more if you buy the DS version and connect them together) so it's price is justified.

 I think people just think it's a shame that the best selling game of the decade is a budget prized minigame collection that sold because it came with a controller.

 It's good money and whatnot, but as you say, it is a shallow game, and I'd personally like the 'top' game of the past 10 years to be something that shows off gaming for the depth and possibilities that I love gaming for.

well said



silicon on 20 October 2009

Wow at Wii Fit