Wii Sports is a fantastic deal. It’s free. ‘Zero nothings’ is the price. If you were to try to calculate its value based on the manufacturing costs of the Wii it comes packaged with, somehow you’d magically still end up at zero. So no matter what grade I give it, you really don’t have to worry about whether or not you should purchase it. The grade is pretty irrelevant to your wallet for this review.

In fact, almost anything I say about Wii Sports, good or bad, is irrelevant to whether or not you’re going to play it. It’s fun, simple, and it’s hooking non-gamers into turning on a Wii and waving their arms like crazy people. It’s also short-lived and not such a wonderful experience for anyone who’s ever actually touched a joystick before popping this disc in. But that’s not really the point. Though it isn’t often after the initial few hours of the Wii being powered on, when I do put in Wii Sports, it is a fun game to play.

Is two paragraphs enough? What the hell else am I supposed to tell you? You put the game in, you pick a sport (of five) and follow simple motions to make your bouncy little person perform (usually) a single action. Then you hand the Wii remote over to someone else and they do the same thing and you laugh and yell and jump around the room, somehow having fun, and somewhere in Japan a man is rolling in a pile of money.