So the NPD results for February hit yesterday, and none of it was too interesting... oh, except the one thing that made Nintendo so happy they issued a press release about it. You see, Wii Play has broken ten million copies sold in the United States alone. The worldwide sales figures are even more staggering.
This has set the internet ablaze with righteous fury, because Wii Play is probably the Wii title that hardcore gamers hate the most. The games on disc are so simple that you could duplicate the whole package in Flash with ease. Most people who buy Wii Play do so just for the second controller that it comes bundled with, since spare Wii Remotes are still a rarer than they should be.
That said, basically every Wii owner I've seen who didn't go the fanboy route and buy it during its launch period (what I did) has had a copy of Wii Play. The simple games appear to be great fun if you have kids and grandmas playing frequently and the controller + game package gets two controllers into a lot of houses that might have otherwise have stopped at one (and made their Wii experience a lot less fun).
Is Wii Play really a terrible game? Most reviews bagged on it pretty hard (only 58% at Metacritic), but there's plenty of reason to believe that family-oriented mini-game collections can't get a fair shake from hardcore reviewers. Clearly there's only one way to settle this, which is to ask my highly-authoritative readers what they think.
