Nintendo Switch Sports | Critical Consensus
Danielle Partis
News Editor
Friday 29th April 2022
Today sees the release of Nintendo Switch Sports, a spiritual successor to the successful Wii Sports title that launched with the titular console 16 years ago.
Wii Sports was bundled in with the console in all territories outside of Japan, and as a result sold a mammoth 89.2 million copies, making it the best-selling single-platform game of all time. As such, a reboot of the game for the Nintendo Switch -- now Nintendo's best-selling console -- was much anticipated.
Similar to Wii Sports, Nintendo Switch Sports offers players an array of popular games to play, including returning activities tennis and bowling, alongside new options including soccer, badminton, volleyball and chanbara (though chanbara appeared in the 2009 sequel Wii Sports Resort). Golf, another game from Wii Sports, is also scheduled to drop as free DLC later this year.
As of writing, the game has a score of 75% on Metacritic based on 33 reviews, one point less than the original Wii Sports title. It's worth noting that some reviewers have opted for a more condensed review without a score, as some of the game's online modes were unavailable prior to its public launch.
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Nintendo Sports relies on the core ideals brought forward with the inception of the Wii -- the magic of motion control to play something. This is something Keza MacDonald touched on in a 4/5 star review for The Guardian, writing: "Wii Sports sparked a brief obsession with motion-control video games in the late '00s that has since died out again, but now that we've all had a break from flinging our limbs around in front of a console, I'm glad it's back again."
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