Nintendo Switch Sports review – Wii get nostalgic

metro.co.uk:

Motion control classic Wii Sports is revamped for the Nintendo Switch, with three new sports and an extensive new online mode.

Wii Sports is Nintendo’s best-selling video game of all time. That’s largely because it was bundled with the console in the West, but considering most people were buying the Wii specifically to play the game its sales of almost 83 million are clearly no mere accident. Despite that success though it’s hard to find many people that would count themselves as fans of the game, in the same way as Nintendo’s other long-running franchises.

The Wii and, by association Wii Sports, saved Nintendo from the declining fortunes they’d be experiencing ever since the ‘90s but almost everything from the Wii era is slowly being forgotten and ignored. The entire ethos of the Switch and Wii consoles are almost polar opposites, with the newer console embracing Nintendo’s roots in traditional gaming as much as the Wii tried to move away from them, with non-games like Wii Music and Wii Fit.

The equivalent of Wii Fit on the Switch is the thoroughly gamified Ring Fit Adventure, and while the Switch does have motion controls they’re rarely used in the same intrusive way as on the Wii. All of which makes the idea of bringing Wii Sports back seem a little strange. It can never be a trendsetter again and there’s not really been enough time for nostalgia to be a major factor. Against such a backdrop Nintendo Switch Sports struggles to feel relevant but at least it’s still fun, in certain circumstances at least…

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It’s hard to known exactly how to describe Nintendo Switch Sports. It’s more than a simple remaster or remake (Wii Sports Club on the Wii U is closer to being that) but not that much more. It’s not really being