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By no means am I saying the game is going to be bad. I'm glad this was even thought of all.

But what hurt me the most was that it wasn't Mii based, they're SIDE ADDITIONS more than anything. They flat out trolled us.
Why Nintendo T^T
We more so wanted Wii Sports "3".
Literally replace the Avatars with Miis and make it Mii Themed and then I'll feel better.... I can live with no Wuhu Island or Limited Mini-Games.... just make it Mii Themed.....
The Switch needs more Mii Games.... Miis need some love.....

@2ruffles You are so right! All us Mii lovers have is Miitopia and a minor playable character in MK8 and Smash! Also, respect for the fellow Mii Profile Pic have-er!

@minecraftemery Likewise (I decided to change it to my Mii today to fit the theme more).

I can't believe that since nintendo released this game they decided to explode everybody's wii console. Yes you herd that right I found an article about it here: https://hard-drive.net/nintendo-announces-all-still-functioning-wiis-will-self-destruct-in-2023/ Nintendo life WHY haven't you talked about this? This is completely outrageous.
(I'm joking plz dont come after me)
Edit: they just posted an article about it now

@2ruffles @minecraftemery
I couldn't agree with both of y'all more. These new avatars are just so lame and can't replicate the perfectness of the miis. It hurts me to see how nintendo is trying to phase them out. Like why is the mii maker on the switch hidden away? It should be an icon on the bottom.

@zap-switch No kidding, not to mention Switch Sports is missing some of the magic from the Wii Sports series. Being focus on Miis, the Themes, even the UIs

@2ruffles right. switch sports was great but it wasn't bringing enough nostalgia, and i understand some people don't like miis but they were PERFECT for the sports series and Nintendo needs to start listening. the wii sports music should've been a direct transfer and the UI should've been similar. honestly i would be happy with a direct port of wii sports with HD graphics..

@zap-switch No offense, but that was a troll post. Hard Drive just does a REALLY good job at trolling.

@willatschool sorry for necroreplying but what you're looking for is Wii Sports Club. It's much worse than Switch Sports for a multitude of reasons.

@wutadam its fine about the necroreply, and how is wii sports club worse than switch sports? or did you mean to say that it's better than switch sports? i never got to play it so just curious.

@willatschool No, Club is much, much worse than Switch.

The game had a confusing release strategy--you could rent all 5 sports for 24 hours for $2, buy each sport individually for $10, or buy the whole package physically for $40. The game released with Tennis and Bowling, and Golf, Baseball, and Boxing came through free* updates. *Free being if you rented the sports or bought the full game.

The gameplay was a mixed bag overall. In Tennis, you had full control over the position of your racket, but it was much slower-paced, and the motion controls had to be recalibrated nearly every swing.

Bowling was pretty much unchanged from Resort, which isn't a bad thing. However, the "throwing the ball backwards" happened way too often, which is likely why they removed it from Switch Sports.

Golf was also largely unchanged, except you had to put your GamePad on the floor so... you could see the ball, I guess. Instead of replays only happening after impressive shots, a replay happened after every shot, which got annoying fast.

In baseball, the batter is basically the same from OG, but the pitcher both pitched and controlled outfielders' gloves with the GamePad, which was cool, until you had to repeatedly switch between the two.

Boxing was definitely the worst out of the bunch. Punches are much slower than the original, and your Mii stopped dead in its tracks when it threw a punch. You also needed two remotes for each player, so if you didn't have two remotes, you had to do one-handed boxing.

Every sport had online play, but instead of online actually functioning like online play in Switch Sports, it was basically pretending that the other players were in the next room. You had to take turns in Bowling and Golf, and in the other sports, the game literally slowed its frame rate to account for lag.

Every sport also had 3-6 other modes. It sounds cool having nearly 20 modes, but when you account for the gameplay being the mixed bag it is, I really couldn't bring myself to try every one.

Obviously graphics don't make a game. But they're still just as necessary, which the Wii Sports Club team didn't understand for the most part.

The Miis use basic lighting and texturing, despite having better lighting and texturing built into the console. Their animations are also largely copied from Resort and OG, with the exception of Boxing's stiff mannequin movements.

The environment, apart from the bowling alley, is pretty generic and colorless. Grass looks like someone poured soda on the fake grass they put on soccer fields, dirt and rock looks like they stole the textures from Google Images, and the city background looks like a Roblox game.

If that wasn't enough, the game sold horribly--currently, it clocks in at around 380,000 copies. For comparison, Switch Sports has sold 8.61 million by the end of December 2022.

So yeah, Nintendo gave the fans what they wanted: an "HD" remake of Wii Sports with new modes, but they screwed it up and it sold horribly. That's probably why Switch Sports is so different: they don't want to just rehash the same game for a new console, they actually want to make something new. And clearly, it worked.

@wutadam i feel like by your description, Sports Club was a failed attempt of what could've been great and now i kinda see why they wouldn't try it again. i just wish we had stuff from the original game like the training mini-games, boxing and baseball, and that iconic music. but i do appreciate some of the new things in Switch Sports, so it's a mixed bag. (sorry for replying so late, i didn't see this notification)

This game was a bit disappointing but a charming game overall

Unpopular opinion - xbox one + kinect (and why not, xbox one x + adapter + kinect) are marginally better than the joycons.
Also the kinect sports rivals is much better and cheaper (and refundable)
why did I even get a nintendo ffs