Wii Sports: Best-selling game ever

[Julio_Strikes_Back]

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/wii-sports-is-best-selling-game-ever/1276855

[Aragha]

It came with the Wii. Not a big surprise.

[HiroLord]

Everyone who has a Wii has it.

3 Billion Wiis = 3 billion Wii Sports.

(note: random numbers.)

[kiggidykev]

Eek. That's a lot.

I wonder how many more they'd sell by offering it separately from the Wii. So many people complain that they've lost their discs and want to buy it again.

[Transbrak]

pack ins shouldn't count.

[trench762]

yeah, that's a bs call, the game itself hasn't sold a single copy unless on ebay or used. Wonder how many copies of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt were sold.

[Rock_Starman]

I've only played the baseball but that was terrible.

[Renrock]

Even if you don't count WiiSports because it's a pack in , WiiPlay is gonna take that honor soon enough.

And that's even worse !

[trench762]

baseball is the worst one unless your doin homerun derby. Don't get me wrong it's a great game especially for a freebie. Tennis and bowling have to be my favs, for golf I prefer tiger. Oh man, wii play was terrible, but it was pretty much a freebie too, considering it was the same price as a controller and it included a controller.

[Meatwad555]

lol anyone who reads GameInformer already knows this.

[trench762]

yeah I already knew, but not from game informer, from g4. I just skim through GI, besides this is discussion.

[LZ_69]

This is another shameless publicity stunt by Nintendo......I company which I once respected greatly.

Nintendo has forsaken the harcore gaming fans, if it wasn't for Twilight Princess I would have never even picked up a Wiimote in my life.

[TopazDolphin]

pack ins shouldn't count.

Yeah, that would be cheating. :p

So, they were counting it as a sale, despite it was packaged. How odd. For some reason, I thought they would count it differently.

[Baanu_Rass]

Missing the console part in the title. All of us have solitaire. It will be Wii Play that holds the real title soon. Only 4 million out of first as of Sept 2008.

[Lokius Maximus]

I agree that pack-ins shouldn't count. But then the record that Super Mario Bros set wouldn't count either. What leads after that? Super Mario Bros 3?

[BYC]

I would guess the Sims or Tetris if Mario didn't count because it's a pack-in.

[sweet-t310]

pack ins shouldn't count.


yeah, that's a bs call, the game itself hasn't sold a single copy unless on ebay or used. Wonder how many copies of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt were sold.

The reason Super Mario Bros was #2 on the list is because it was a pack-in as well. When I first heard this news I was very surprised, because that means that more "new" Wiis have been sold than "new" NES's. Pretty astonishing.

Here's a nifty chart highlighting the top 10 games (http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2724&a=2)

[RobbySuave]

Wii Sports doesn't come with the system in Japan.

[Runesmith]

Huh. I always thought The Sims was the best-selling game ever. You learn something new every day.

(I do think The Sims deserves the title way more than Wii Sports, though.)

[rockfresh126]

So looks like Tetris is the real best selling game of all time. BTW....How the hell is Nintendogs on that list?

[Elegy]

So looks like Tetris is the real best selling game of all time. BTW....How the hell is Nintendogs on that list?

The DS was incredibly popular, as was Nintendogs

[Zenweaponry]

Console bundles shouldn't count.

[Elegy]

Console bundles shouldn't count.

It wasn't bundled in japan, although I'm not sure how that affects it, but really, if you think about it, Wii Sports would probably have near to the same numbers as it does now if it weren't bundled. especially if sold for cheap, and also, laymen gamers would buy it. it's a pretty good game.

[Lokius Maximus]

The DS was incredibly popular, as was Nintendogs

And Nintendogs was ALSO pack-in. Although, it wasn't the all exclusive pack-in like Wii Sports is, as there were other titles that were packed in at the same time.

[Elegy]

And Nintendogs was ALSO pack-in. Although, it wasn't the all exclusive pack-in like Wii Sports is, as there were other titles that were packed in at the same time.

see the post above yours.

^ That wasn't supposed to sound conceited, just that I didn't want to re-argue my point

[Captain Zepp 07]

So looks like Tetris is the real best selling game of all time. BTW....How the hell is Nintendogs on that list?

Pokemon Red/Blue dude, not tetris ;)