- Divorced Installment: There were plans to make this a Mario sports game, but players took a liking to their Miis, so it became what we have today. Eventually, a Mario-themed sports compilation game was made anyway.
- Follow the Leader: Plenty of third party games tried to cash in on this. Sports Champions for the PlayStation Move and Kinect Sports for the Kinect were just the first-party tip of the iceberg.
- Killer App: Wii Sports was a major force in pushing the Wii thanks to being the perfect way to show off the console's motion control capabilities to casual gamers. Even in Japan it managed numbers akin to the mega popular Dragon Quest games. People were buying Wii systems for this game.
- Referenced by...:
- In the Doctor Who story "The Power of Three", the Doctor plays Wii Sports during his year on Earth.
- In one Vine, a home video of a little girl rolling off a swing is edited over a clip of Wii Sports bowling. She scores a strike.
- What Could Have Been
- Early gameplay footage showcases Misaki as a Boxing opponent, suggesting that all of the female CPU Miis were intended to be opponents.
- Shigeru Miyamoto was against bundling the game with the Wii, stating that Nintendo "doesn't give away software."note Reggie Fils-Aimé, the Nintendo of America president at the time, had to push hard to get him to relent.
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