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Not surprisingly, Wii Sports Resort is a hit photo

Surely, everyone saw this coming: Nintendo has revelaed that Wii Sports Resort is a ridiculously huge success.

The publisher has revealed that since its June 26 launch, over 1 million copies of the game have been sold in the United States. Oh, and in Japan and Europe each, more than 1 million copies of Wii Sports Resort have been sold as well. This shouldn't be too surprising, as the game ships with the exciting new Wii MotionPlus peripheral that everyone just has to have. Oh, and the words "Wii Sports" are so popular that appending them to pretty much anything would result in a sales explosion (i.e. Wii Sports Colonoscopy is trademark just waiting to happen).

It helps that the collection of games, including Swordplay and archery, are actually pretty damned good. Were you one of the 1 million Wii Sports Resort sales?


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Kraid's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 10:23
Kraid
2 years from now , it will still sell like hotcakes.
Harris Hatsworth's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 10:29
Harris Hatsworth
That last little bit sums it up pretty well. Pretty much everyone says "and it's also a really good game" like some sort of "oh yeah, I forgot that Nintendo knows exactly what it's doing 99% of the time" afterthought. I'm still waiting for a few cheques in the mail until I buy it though.
xiaolinstyle's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 10:30
xiaolinstyle
Who ARE these people??? Im a hardcore gamer. Constanly perusing gaming sites, talking to friends about gaming and in general being ensconced in the videogame culture and yet I know maybe 2(?) people that have a Wii and neither of them play it or think anything coming out for it is worth their attention. Yet Nintendo releases this ridiculous BS waggle game and its a 'huge' hit?

Again WHO are these ,as far as I can tell nonexistant, people?
EternalDeathSlayer's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 10:36
EternalDeathSlayer
xiaolinstyle: You speak as if Nintendo is lying. Ever heard of casual gamers? Little kids and their moms? 20-something bachelors who don't play videogames otherwise?

Basically everybody.
kickacid's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 10:36
kickacid
I AM one of those people.
and yes in between bouts of playing "TEH HARDCOREZ G@mEZ" (or something to that effect), I enjoy playing the odd bit of Wii sports Resort when my friends call round.

and yeah, it also happens to be a pretty good game too
VWGTI's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 10:45
VWGTI
I played the game and it's pretty boring. Not sure why everyone is in love with it.
megaStryke's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 11:26
megaStryke
@VWGTI

I hate the games you like.
Rusty Ghia's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 11:27
Rusty Ghia
I'm sad to say that I, too, bought Wii Sports Resort, and am contributing to the dumbing down of gaming. You see, the girlfriend wanted it for her birthday, so there you go.

And the sad thing? It will get almost no play time whatsoever. Were both busy adults and I couldn't stand the non-game tripe that was Wii Sports and sold it off right after getting my Wii.
Rusty Ghia's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 11:27
Rusty Ghia
I'm sad to say that I, too, bought Wii Sports Resort, and am contributing to the dumbing down of gaming. You see, the girlfriend wanted it for her birthday, so there you go.

And the sad thing? It will get almost no play time whatsoever. Were both busy adults and I couldn't stand the non-game tripe that was Wii Sports and sold it off right after getting my Wii.
Rusty Ghia's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 11:28
Rusty Ghia
I'm sad to say that I, too, bought Wii Sports Resort, and am contributing to the dumbing down of gaming. You see, the girlfriend wanted it for her birthday, so there you go.

And the sad thing? It will get almost no play time whatsoever. Were both busy adults and I couldn't stand the non-game tech demo that was Wii Sports, and sold it off right after getting my Wii.
FistfulOAwesome's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 11:34
FistfulOAwesome
@Rusty Ghia
Who did you sell Wii Sports to? It comes with the console. Everybody (except the Japanese) would have a copy!
falinter's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 11:41
falinter
Wii Sports Resort hit who?
Rusty Ghia's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 11:43
Rusty Ghia
@FistfulOAwesome
I sold it to a local independent game store. They'll buy most anything.

Sorry about the multi-post, I kept getting error messages.
VWGTI's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 12:08
VWGTI
@megaStryke

Oh noes!
Ganjookie's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 12:10
Ganjookie
I bought mine on Saturday and enjoyed the Sword play (non cock version) Frisbee, archery and table tennis!

I'd like to see a game based on the sword fighting with robust RPG features, character creation, online play and a cool Wii sword peripheral!
Chack's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 13:43
Chack
I'm an actual gamer, like most (or is it "all"?) of Dtoiders and I love Wii Sports Resort, it's a good mini-games collection.

I don't really care about Wii Motion+ until I see a complete game using it.
The Prodigal Son's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/25/2009 15:42
The Prodigal Son
There's Captain Obvious! Haven't seen him in a while, and I was starting to get worried.
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