10:06 AM on 12.05.2006
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Savant
Our good buddy NamelessTed passed along a rather interesting bit of news that was posted over at Wired that shows the software sales numbers in detail. Apparently, Wii Sports and Wii Play both outsold Twilight Princess. Wii Sports sold 176.167 copies, making it the best-selling Wii game in Japan over the weekend launch. Wii Play, the bundled game with an extra Wiimote sold 174,297 copies to become the runner-up in game sales. However, the big shocker here was that the bronze medal went to the hands-down dominant seller here in the U.S.; Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess with 139,011 copies sold.
Also within the sales numbers, you'll find that the ratio between games-to-console was almost 2:1 (it came out to 1.8.) Big daddy pimp Hamtaro best shows my reaction when I first read this news. Don't get me wrong, I love Wii Sports, but I was extremely surprised to see a qualtiy title such as Zelda get owned by a very simplistic "demonstration" title. Nevertheless, I'm sure that Zelda will eventually outsell them both as more consoles become available later on. Keep watchin' the numbers to see if my hunch is correct.
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And Nintendo has been much more successful at opening new markets in Japan than they have in the US. There are more non-traditional gamers there, and naturally many of those people will not be drawn to hardcore experiences such as Zelda.
Why won't it? At my work there are people who haven't played games since NES days cause two many buttons and other reasons and they are now trying to get a Wii for Christmas. I know other people who don't play video games but want one or at least play it.
So as for the US, I think it is "working" too.
On the other hand, they love minigames & alternative stuff about as much as we seem to love madden & fifa.
It is just a demo, but considering that it's just deep enough to where I can play Tennis against my mom, and have her win, it saved Thanksgiving from erupting into drunken fistfights and cutting remarks about why I'm still single...
That said, I've cooled my interest for WiiPlay, simply because I don't want another Wiimote, honestly. I've got two now, and if there's Mario Party or Kart to be had, people had better be rolling their own at that point. I'm not about to go into massive debt just so my drinking buddies can see how far they can heave a $40 strapless remote from their showerhead like hands.
Honestly, I hated the show. But they were so damn cute!