Wii Sports has a charm and simplicity that Nintendo Switch Sports has to live up to

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After Nintendo Switch Sports was announced during the last Nintendo Direct, I literally jumped out of my chair. I am sure many other viewers did the exact same thing. The trailer tugged on my nostalgia string with just the phrase “it’s a new iteration of the Wii Sports series.” After my initial excitement waned, I scoured the video once again for more details and a question dawned on me: there is just no way that this game can live up to just how revolutionary Wii Sports was, right?

Now that the next iteration is releasing at the end of this month, I thought I would dust off my old Wii U, that I proudly still have plugged into my TV, and jump into the original game. After popping the same disc that I got back on Christmas of 2006, I was immediately taken back to my childhood.

Right from the jump, the game provides one of the most charming and iconic tracks to ever appear in a video game. If you were to just play that sound for a random selection of people, I believe most, if not all, would be able to point out what it was from. Everyone knew about Wii Sports back then. You were playing it. I was playing it. Even your grandparents were probably playing it. The newly introduced motion controls brought in such a wide range of people to the system.

The simplicity of Wii Sports is what made the game so novel and memorable. Even though the controller looks quite off for a video game controller, it fits perfectly into your hand and swinging the remote just felt natural. I have still yet to hold a controller that fits the feel for motion controls better than the Wii Remote. To top that off, that was almost the extent of what players needed to know to begin enjoying the game.

From the main menu, the player can only select one of