LogFAQs > #979710913

Wii Sports
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Twilight Princess
Just Dance

Wii Sports was the game of the system, being a pack-in and all that.

though Brawl is the black sheep of the series for good reason it was also the most hyped game of the series.

Twilight Princess has definitely been memory holed at this point in terms of hype/importance but when that game was announced it was a huge deal. this was the return of a dark and "serious" Zelda, none of that kiddy Wind Waker shit. yeah, remember when that's how WW was viewed? it was in that timeframe when we had the darker, more serious, adult Link come out and people nostalgic over OoT were flipping their shit (as fans of MM were going "uhhh it was dark here too y'know"). Breath of the Wild is to the Switch as Twilight Princess is to the Wii. double checking, for the first month its attachment rate was 87%. now eventually this went down, way down, and people realized that this was legit just a gamecube game but nobody outside of people on gamefaqs bought a gamecube either so uh... yeah.

Just Dance isn't our audience at all. but that's also the jokes the Wii has always had, it isn't a console for "hardcore gamers." sure there's Nintendo but it's such a casual system. well that's what Just Dance is: it is the casual game. ratings and reviews, totally mid. didn't matter, people were playing this shit like crazy. so much that it became the 2nd biggest franchise Ubisoft has ever had and the 3rd game was the 2nd best selling game in 2011. remember Dance Central? remember how Kinect was a thing and Microsoft was pushing dancing on it? like this isn't "our" game but the Wii wasn't "our" console either, the hardcore base wasn't at the center of the console's success, it was the Just Dance crowd that made a lot of it. that needs a rep on any rushmore and there isn't a better game for it. yeah, Wii Sports exists as the pack-in game but this was the one people actually bought.