From the Brow of Zeus

In an article called Xbox 360 Barely Outsells PS3 in August by Tracy Erickson (of GamePro!), PC World made the startling revelation that more owners of Nintendo Wii have bought copies of Wii Fit than the Xbox 360 title Too Human,

[Madden NFL 09 for Wii] even sold less than Too Human, which is a far more niche title than passing around the pigskin. Apparently Wii owners prefer working out with Wii Fit and pedal-to-the-metal sessions of Mario Kart than football or looting adventures set to a Norse mythological back drop.

Why even put that last part in there? It had me scrambling to see if Too Human had a Wii release I never heard about.

I get the writer's point, that a niche Xbox 360 title can outsell a major third party Wii release. But there are two problems with the quoted paragraph:

1. Madden fans are fist-pumping college guys who've always stuck with whatever system was coolest/most resistant to beer/bong water spills. They don't have Wiis, they have PS3s and 360s.
   
2. Saying Wii owners prefer Mario Kart to Madden is fair. Saying Wii owners prefer Mario Kart to Too Human borders on insane. It's like saying they prefer it to skydiving.
   

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