Wii Sports is best game ever: Casual gamers are taking over

Gamer Bloge writes: "The Wii has been an absolute phenomenon since it was released at the back end of 2006. But does that success really justify Wii Sports being placed at number one in a list of the 50 best video games ever? I don't think so somehow.

The Wii is great. I'm not one of those snobby PS3 or Xbox 360 owners who think that the Nintendo console isn't a proper console, doesn't belong in this generation, or is just a toy not even worth five minutes playing on. It's not the greatest console in the world, that's the PS3 according to the current results in our poll, but it has changed the games industry and the stigma that gaming has attached to it.

However, I'm shocked to find that Wii Sports tops the list of the 50 best video games ever in an article published in The Independent newspaper. Seriously, the game which comes free with a Wii is classed as better than any Zelda, Mario, Sonic, Halo, Grand Theft Auto, or Metal Gear Solid title. How wrong can one article be?"

[thereapersson]

LOL...

This is why the Wii is a joke. It's turning casuals into supposed experts with useless opinions on all things videogames.

Also, Fallout 3 isn't even out yet, and it's supposedly one of the best games ever made? Halo 3? It's the same as the previous games!

This list is completely bogus, and i'm glad someone decided to bring up the audacity of the top 10 choices. Give me a break!

[ChickeyCantor]

"This is why the Wii is a joke. It's turning casuals into supposed experts with useless opinions on all things videogames."

No this makes the people a joke with their opinions.
(Then again to each his own)

If you go by your statement you could say : Ps360 is a joke because its turning healthy young kids into brainwashed zealots who can't be civilized when they are gaming online.

I am gonna get disagrees, what will only prove my point...because my statement is nonsensical isn't it? just like yours.

Edit: o o o, and did i mention i also have a PS3?...
Yes the Wii fanboy i am...!!

[DavidMacDougall]

It shouldnt be called a game if you need to stand and burn calleries a game is a chair and a control pad

[ChickeyCantor]

so a "game" = Digital entertainment only?
A game can come in many ways.
you are basically saying gaming is for lazy people.

I suggest you go and see the sun more xD

[DavidMacDougall]

Just because im a "Proper" gamer you tell me to see the sun more? That makes no sense i could say that to you just because you had the time to reply to me on a "Gamers" website

[ChickeyCantor]

"Just because im a "Proper" gamer "

So now we suddenly have classes and ranks when it comes to the "type" of gamers. Yay the gaming world is maturing so fast.

No i said you should see the sun more because you actually said "It shouldnt be called a game if you need to stand and burn calleries "

Games do not come in Digital forms only, therefore see the world more it proves you otherwise. Games can also involve standing/jumping/running etc etc. Wether it be digital or not.

[DavidMacDougall]

We are on a games site? Where on the top tabs do i see basketball? Football? Where are talking about games as in computer

"Just because im a "Proper" gamer "

"So now we suddenly have classes and ranks when it comes to the "type" of gamers. "

YEAH!!! The topic of the article is Casual gamers are taking over

So yeah we do! Now ,get with the times

[ChickeyCantor]

Ok i'm gonna put it simple this time it seems you are missing the point.

Wether it be a digital game or not.
They can both have a way to play certain games while burning calories.

You hear that DDR fans you weren't gaming you are no gamers, you were performing you guys are pro-dancers. Not gamers, nope!!

"get with the times"
If you say something like this, you should actually accept the "casual" crowd and you are not. So in other words you are living in the past.

But its all good...

[DavidMacDougall]

The way things are going i am happy to hear it

[leila01]

David got owned.
Nice pic btw, this is how I picture the "casuals". "Casuals" is another name for &#*t?d!. Seriously, the Wii is a phucking toy. How can someone pay €250 for a Wii? It's the same thing as throwing money into the toilet.

[ChickeyCantor]

Like all that money girls spent on "stuff" xD
j/k j/k
I kid i kid...

[DavidMacDougall]

Thats a good angle they got on that picture of you Patchstation

[Lord Shuhei Yoshida]

LMAO Nice one Dave

[Gr81]

Then I guess basketball, or football aren't games either?

[DavidMacDougall]

In the sense of there on a tv and runned throught a console

[chanmasta]

... dude just stop before you embarrass yourself some more.

[lnfinite]

"Thats a good angle they got on that picture of you Patchstation "

hahahaha

[tangerine]

Am I wrong?
It's better than Ocarina Of Time? MGS4? Super Mario Bros? Secret Of Mana? DooM? Crysis? BF2? GTA Vice City? Chrono Trigger? SF2? Goldeneye64? FFVII? Tetris?

Please! This is oh so FAIL.

[yanikins111]

whoever said that needs a catscan, and a good long raping by solid snake.

[dib8rman]

The original newspaper article listed the top 50 games sure, but it was the best 50 games to get and it was in no particular order, Wii Sports was just first to have it's name there. Also they aren't saying Wii Sports is the best, they are saying that it's on of the good games to get. That's right this list is a suggestion list on what to buy, not tiers.

Thought it probably would of helped the responders if the author of this article had posted a scan or better yet; if he had understood what he was reading for what it was, a refference of good games to get this holiday season.