Nintendo: No Plans For Wii Sports Resort Bundle

14 Aug 2009 at 11:06:57 by Andy Alderson

Nintendo has confirmed Wii Sports Resort will not be bundled with Wii hardware in the near future.

According to Matt Ryan, senior supervisor of communications and advertising for Nintendo of Canada, the company has no plans to release a Wii Sports Resort Bundle.

“The long-term plan is difficult to say, but I can tell you that there are no plans to make Wii Sports Resort what is packed in with the Wii purchase,” he told Toronto Thumbs.

“What is in the Wii box will remain the same. Wii Sports Resort will not replace Wii Sports. The intention with Wii Sports was to provide an out of the box experience for consumers and we want new consumers and non-owners to experience that just as everybody else has”.

He goes onto say that, as Wii Sports Resort contains considerably more gameplay content than its predecessor, it’s more suited to a full retail release.

“Wii Sports Resort is a different experience because while Wii Sports was designed to show off what the Wii Remote can do – the funny thing is it’s intended to be a demonstration but that is some peoples’ favourite game for Wii and that’s great – Wii Sports Resort is a more robust experience,” he added.

“There’s way more activities, there’s way more to do, and it’s more full-on software that you’re used to purchasing at retail at that price point.”

We’re not surprised this is Nintendo’s position on the issue – as of last week, Wii Sports Resort had sold over 680,000 copies in Europe alone since its launch. Find out why we were swooning over the game here. 

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