How about we live and let live, and if people actually enjoy the game, does it matter what the core reviewers thing? I remember seeing how Deer Hunter was ruthlessly mauled by reviewers. However, I know my father ended up playing on the PC for hours at that game, and he never played anything else. He is into hunting.

He did ask if it's a sleeper hit, so it could mean something else depending on a person.  Also don't jump on people's troats, he did mention quality of the game in his post. On the topic, it will do well, but don't expect me to give it praise. Now, where's my penny.:)

Live and let live?

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I would like to say the same thing about "Let's Tap". That game is selling like hot cakes at my local Best Buy's and its a casual game just like Just Dance.

It's just Let's Tap has five games and they all involve you tapping on a flat surface with the Wii-mote near. And Just Dance reminds me of Let's Tap because with Just Dance all your doing is holding the Wii-mote and dancing and the Wii picks up on your gestures.

Not bad games but it certainly caters to the casual audience. Check Youtube and search "Just Dance" and watch all the results, you will see so many videos that were uploaded from users

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Just Dance ... that just seems like a strange game.
But it something that appeals to non-traditional gamers. And it is advertised. The latter should be a lesson to many game developers whose offerings have not done well on the Wii. People need to know to buy the games.

Mike from Morgantown

"The latter should be a lesson to many game developers whose offerings have not done well on the Wii. People need to know to buy the games."

Imagine commercials of people swinging the Wiimote like a baseball bat or a katana while playing Chop Till You Drop, or people doing the moves in Madworld.

They would have sold better.

It's fun, yes, but everyone should know that it is clearly impossible to make the motion control work with your whole body. I mean you actually don't need to move your body at all. If you move solely your wrist you can already succeed in this game. And I dare to claim that Ubisoft didn't care about the control, I think there is no real concept behind it. I was the only one at Game City in Vienna who was not embarrassed to dance like the figures on the screen and I got last after dancing with little girls (my self-confidence is now somewhere hell. Very low ;_;).

But oh well, it seems to be enough reason to bash the Wii.

What reviewers find fun and what the public find fun can be two very different things. Sometimes people just want a fun experience or what they think is a fun expereince and not a "game" in the technical sense.

Let this be a lesson as well. Decent advertising goes a long way. Perhaps Ubisoft has finally learned this. If this game gets sales because of that then it deserves it. Other games aren't getting that attention and if they don't sell as a result then so be it. 

I believe they most certainly would have. Yet publishers can't seem to get this through their head. However perhaps they do and they don't want thier games to do well in the end. Sounds crazy I know but if that isn't the case then whoever is in charge of their advertising is incompetent.

Every Christmas seems to have one game that the reviewers despise that moves massive units. Last year it was Nerf N-Strike. The graphs look pretty similar, so far:

http://www.vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=All&game1=NERF+N-Strike+-+Wii[25319]&reg2=All&game2=Just+Dance+-+Wii[40053]&reg3=All&game3=&weeks=60&weekly=1

Just Dance was released closer to the holiday spike, and it's doing it mostly in EU, while N-strike did it all in NA. If the pattern holds, Just Dance could sell ~100k for another 2 weeks, then tail off to sell ~10k for another ten weeks. So somewhere over 500k by the end of the holiday season, and close to a million this time next year.