Wii Sports is easily one of the Wii's most popular titles, due in no small part to the fact that it came packed with the system. You'd think Nintendo might do it all over again with Wii Sports Resort, but Nintendo of Canada's senior supervisor of communcations and advertising Matt Ryan says that is not the case. Check out his comments in an interview with Toronto Thumbs:
The long-term plan is difficult to say, but I can tell you that there are no plans to make Wii Sports Resort what is packed in with the Wii purchase ... what is in the Wii box will remain the same. Wii Sports Resort will not replace Wii Sports. The intention with Wii Sports was to provide an out of the box experience for consumers and we want new consumers and non-owners to experience that just as everybody else has.
I guess Nintendo figures Wii Sports Resort is good enough to sell on its own, but consumers love repackaging. Why wouldn't they slap it in a new shiny box with the Wii? Not that it matters, because they'll sell a gazillion copies of it anyway, but still ...
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10:20 AM on 08.14.2009
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And there's always the question of the people who don't want WSR. D:
... huh?
@article
Interesting. But, the Wii Sports sales numbers are a pretty spectacular data point for Nintendo to spout at its shareholders. I imagine anything that would diminish that isn't in their best interest.
Nintendo, ironically, is in it for the cheevos.
That way when you buy Resort you can play it how it's supposed to be played... with a friend!
sorry I'm at work and constantly looking over my shoulder. it should have been:
I guess Nintendo figures Wii Sports Resort is good enough to sell on its own
Wii Sports Resort isn't good enough to sell on its own. It comes with a Motion Plus.
ooooooh
I would disagree with that line of thinking if only because you need a motion plus to operate the game. Its more directly selfserving than, say, WiiPlay, which was solely and transparently a shallow software attachment to a universally useful piece of hardware.
its still a little self serving. its not like anybody saw wii sports resort by itself as a must have game. most people are probably buying the game for an accessory that will go with some of their future purchases as well as Wii Sports Resort
lol ... well, I had to have Wii Sports Resort :(
Plus, as others have mentioned, it would drive up the cost of the console, it makes it harder to play multiplayer (since now you need both another Wii Remote and another Motion Plus), and there is no way in America to get Wii Sports outside of the Wii (In Japan it is sold separately to the Wii and still became one of the highest selling games of all time in the country (so it definitely sells because people want it).
WSR is a great sequel, but it compliments Wii Sports, it doesn't replace it (especially since it only shares two games with it).
P.S. Anybody else annoyed that Nintendo didn't include updated versions of all the Wii Sports games? If WSR is to show how great updated Motion Controls are (hint: Really great), why not prove it by showing how they improve the first games most people played with them? For a while I thought it was so people could "graduate" to more complex versions of the different sports (Baseball--> Mario Super Sluggers, Boxing~~>Punch-Out!!, Golf-->Tiger Woods), but then Nintendo included Golf in the collection, despite the already released Tiger Woods games, so I still don't know why.
P.P.S. I wish Archery and Biplane had their own Showdown modes.