 | SALES DATA, CONSUMER, WII, WII SPORTS, NES, SUPER MARIO BROS, DISRUPTION The revolution continues... |
A news bit from the ever-questionable VGChartz was revealed this weekend, stating that the longstanding Super Mario Bros has been surpassed in sales by Wii Sports, making the Wii's pack-in game the best-selling video game of all time.
Let's be realistic for a moment and assume that VGChartz is right about this. Even if Wii Sports hasn't yet overtaken the NES classic, at this point there are no doubts that it will.
You might say this momentous occasion doesn't matter, because Wii Sports is a pack-in and everyone who buys a Wii must own one. Let's not forget that Super Mario was a pack-in under certain conditions as well, but the up-and-coming Wii title and the evergreen Super Mario Bros have something even more important in common: they both gave consumers a reason to buy a console.
Yes, just as people bought the Nintendo Entertainment System for Mario's jumping, mushroom-fueled hijinks, they're buying the Wii in order to smack a virtual tennis ball around an onscreen court. What does this mean for the relevance of VGChartz's sales data? It means the Wii has revolutionized video gaming in the same way that the NES did in the early 1980s, back when Atari was the king who never saw the disruptive wave as it crashed onto the shore.
Congratulations, Wii Sports. Your victory is well-deserved.
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