Wii Sports is already the highest selling game of all time
No offense but isn't that a complete BULL**** stat since the game is a mandatory purchase for every Wii owner outside of Japan? Super Mario Bros. gets a lot of praise for a similar "accomplishment". If I can't choose not to get it then the sales figures ulitmately mean completely NOTHING.
To stay on topic though I'll note that it is good that someone is taking the plunge and trying to make full use of M+ and not just let it be a feature. Of course this is Ubisoft and its Red Steel so I'm not expecting this to be anything worthwhile. But if M+ is going to amount to anything it has to be considered as standard as the remote itself. Hopefully Nintendo will be smart enough to start including it with the remote, but they probably won't. And they'll probably get away with that too. But it has to start coming with every Wii though. THAT is a given.
I'm hoping, not expecting but hoping, that M+ reveals the true potential of the remote. I hope Nintendo releases games that use it that makes everyone wonder how we ever made games without it. Right now the remote is FAR from that. But if this could be the true "new standard" that would be really cool.
In Japan, the Monster Hunter G starter pack which includes a Classic Controller is the top selling SKU since the game requires a classic controller.
That's really cool to know. I don't care at all about Monster Hunter G but if it's the cash cow in Japan everyone says it is this is pretty good news. I think the classic controller is grossly underused and we get a lot of crappy waggle because of that. But this could set the trend of games that require the classic controller and then we get games using the control option that suits them BEST instead of shoehorning everything into the remote regardless of whether it makes sense to or not. Widespread classic controller penetration could mean an end to waggle.