Wii Sports is like a fine wine

It gets better with age.

I've played several Wii titles now, but the one I keep coming back to is Wii Sports.

Tennis is a superb multiplayer game, but Golf and Bowling are surprisingly engrossing single-player experiences.

These games are, as the saying goes, easy to play but hard to master. So you can have plenty of fun just mastering your swing or learning how to twist your wrist just so to put some spin on your ball.

The only real problem for Nintendo right now is that Wii Sports is probably the best game available for the console, other than perhaps Zelda.

But since Wii Sports is already bundled with the console, I think a lot of casual gamers will buy the console and maybe an extra controller, and then never buy another game again.

What Nintendo needs to do is use Wii Sports as a franchise name, so casual gamers who see a new title on the shelf will know exactly what they're getting, even if they've never read a review or game blog. "Wii Sports Fishing," "Wii Sports Discus," "Wii Sports Javelin," "Wii Sports Curling (with realistic sweeping action!)."

Make it so, Nintendo!