Does Wii Play Belong in Game Sales Charts?

[dao2]

it should cound, and since when did wii sports not count on charts o_0?

does that mean all the mgs4 packins and other ps3/360 games dont count cause they came with a console? ;p mario ? sonic? i mean they add to sales end o the story ;p

[RCM]

*shrug*
I believe I have seen mention of Wii Sports becoming the best selling game of all times - dethroning another pack-in game - Super Mario Brothers.

Wii Sports is the best selling game ever

Whether if it is right to call it that can be for debate…



My apologize… I do not have proper sale figures but I am just try to say that Wii Play is indeed in very many homes and that each one at one point was a sale at full retail and current price of $50

We're obviously not on the same page, and that Yahoo article only sourced VGChartz, which is a sham.

It just kills you that a Wii game is in first place, doesn't it?

Ha, not at all. I own a Wii but am not a huge fan. While its success has surely made gaming a bit more legit, its software, especially some of the most successful stuff like Wii Play does little to forward the medium artistically. Hopefully things will change, but few developers are really putting effort into Wii development. It will be interesting to see how Sega's so-called "hardcore Wii titles" perform at retail.

[FantasiaWHT]

I think the point is clear.

How you count it is pointless. What really matters is that this was one of the most brilliantly successful marketing decisions ever made in video games.

[chrisbid]

You should care, for the success of Wii Play and the Wii in general will, and is, greatly influencing the industry.

I wrote about this recently over at J2Games.com. Wii Play should have some sort of asterisk next to it in the history books and be looked upon as more of a pack-in than anything else. Viewing it as a legitimate success on its own is unwise.

and how is this bad?

i like the free wheel with mario kart
i like the zelda shooting game that came with the zapper (though i hate the zapper)
and for a (net) ten dollar game, wiiplay is not horrible.

i like what I like, i dont really care if other people are interested in what i like or not.

[Icarus Moonsight]

You know what is weird? I've seen copies of WiiPlay used (without the controller) at GS and GC and they actually sell... at ~$20. Scary, I know.