Let’s admit that Wii Sports is the best game ever made

digitaltrends.com:

What is the greatest video game of all time? In the early 2000s, it was a heated debate between The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Final Fantasy VII fans. The conversation has widened since, with no real critical consensus to speak of in 2022. Maybe it’s Breath of the Wild. Heck, maybe it’s Elden Ring. Perhaps there’s no answer at all, because trying to pick the “best” game, as if there’s an objective metric for what makes art good, is a flawed exercise.

But in my opinion, all of those answers are wrong and no one can convince me otherwise. The older I’ve gotten and the more video games I’ve played, the more ready I am to die on a very specific hill: Wii Sports is the greatest video game of all time.

Wii Sports was an unlikely success story for Nintendo. Included as a free pack-in game with the Wii in 2006, the sports anthology was less of a game and more of a tech demo. It was a simple way to get new Wii owners comfortable with the idea of motion controls by having them mimic familiar actions. The result was an incredibly fun and intuitive game that everyone and their grandmother could play, quite literally.

It was almost too good at what it set out to do. Wii Sports quickly became a social sensation, smashing sales records (though it’s a complicated metric to judge). It started the motion control era out on an incredible high that Nintendo was not prepared to capitalize on. No Wii game after it could capture the same magic; Nintendo had gotten a hole in one on its first swing.

The more time that passes, the more I’ve come to accept what a colossal achievement the game is. That was easy to take for granted in 2006. At the time, it felt like a modest gimmick, especially since it launched alongside the glitzier The