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If they keep putting out great 1st party games, I'd be happy with another 5 years of Switch.

@TrixieSparkle Wii U was a bad name, but Wii 2 is just as bad imho. For someone who remembers the NES 2, a Wii 2 just sounds like a new model of the Wii.

@AndyC_MK111 Oh sure, everybody hates the internet, especially for competitive multiplayer games and 10 year old a.i. on the Wii it's practically the same thing as playing against a real person.

Anyway again, which offline sport on Wii Sports Resort do you think is better than the best game on Switch Sports?

(also not sure what you mean by "can't interact with them")

@AndyC_MK111 I'm curious, you seem to act like you've played both so which sport is it exactly that's on the offline game Wii Sports Resort that you think is so much better than online 4 v 4 Soccer a.k.a. the best game ever?

@klaw4846 He's probably in there somewhere. I ran into Syoban teamed up with the champ Lucia while playing Tennis offline in the medium difficulty setting. Apparently Lucia is a lot better at table tennis than she is regular tennis because I beat them on my first try, but still cool to see them. Lucia has aged and has face wrinkles.

If people think this is a bad game, I question that persons tastes; or maybe they're just lazy people who hate to move. It's just another reminder that these game rating websites just prioritize getting videos up quick so they can get all the clicks rather than spending the time necessary to really put up a fair review.

Seems pretty obvious, and am surprised it wasn't a choice but the game should have online multiplayer and some kind of single player mode. A lot of people don't have someone to play against so having online multiplayer would have sold a lot more copies. I always wanted to get 1-2 Switch but I just didn't think it would get enough use as it is, but online multiplayer would add a ton of replay value.

I seem to just play Soccer (my favorite), Volleyball, and Tennis the most. And Chambara and Bowling are alright, but I didn't like Badminton, it just feels like a slower version of Tennis.

Switch Sports deserves the top spot easily, nothing is more fun than Soccer online. I can't believe Nintendo decided it was a good idea to release Mario Strikers in just a few months. Compared to Switch Sports it looks terrible, like why would someone choose to play an inferior product, and who's going to buy both? I think they would have sold better if they had waited a couple years between releases.

well at least tv's are cheap these days

seems like a weird limit, but also playing 2 player or more on that little screen doesn't seem ideal for most of the sports. And as was mentioned, people would be hitting each other because they'd have to be close to each other to look at that little screen. Lots of people would be injured or worse, and Nintendo would get tons of lawsuits over something like that. I'm sure their many lawyers made sure to nip this in the bud before it became a problem.

I thought it was a lot of fun but the song selection wasn't that good.

This is ridiculously fun, Nintendo Life had the right idea in waiting for online to rate. The online is the main mode here and after playing a while, I'd rate it a 10/10. The Tennis is awesome, and so is the Soccer, and the Bowling, and I love how there's all those collectibles and leveling up, and how you can unlock new taunt messages and 2 word titles. It's got this progression system that was sorely missing on the previous entries. If you don't like Wii Sports you won't like this, but for fans of the franchise, this is as good as it gets.

The Tennis back on the Wii U and Wii you'd have to hit up on the controller often to recalibrate it in the middle of the match, and that never came up here, it just worked the whole time. Being a 2 player game controlling both characters gives you a lot of control and of all the games I've played (only about 3 hours so far), the game is completely lag free, never once pausing, or slowing down, or anything (which was a huge problem on Wii Sports Club online). The Bowling where everybody all bowls at the same time is quick and fun, rather than boring waiting for your turn. And the Soccer 4 vs 4 is really unlike anything and probably the best thing I've played in a long time, you get massive satisfaction when you can block a goal or score a point for your team. Once I got used to it, I didn't want to put the game down. I can't express what a massive improvement this is over the previous games.

Oh no it plays like Wii Sports and Wii Sports Club, and I'm incredibly disappointed that it doesn't have 50 games included. This should be a pack in, don't they know how poor I am right now?

Maybe they'll recreate scenes from the Ron Jeremy Mario movie in Lego form

Weird seeing them discontinue online support for OnLive games, especially since the service hasn't been operational since 2015.

Is money not a good enough reason? You'd think if a company made games, they'd want to port them to every console available; to get a piece of every market.

I'm disappointed, this looks just like the other Splatoon games. Why don't they fly around in hovercars and use space lasers to do each others taxes or something. Or how about a turn based hot dog selling game where you have to use fancy LED displays to get more customers than your opponents. The same reason I didn't like the new Mortal Kombat, it's just like the other Mortal Kombat games, but why don't they change it up a bit so it plays more like Peggle. More blood and gore and fighting, come on, we've all played that game already, how about something fresh.

I miss Table Tennis

I'd never buy a game from Konami after all the NFT scams they've been up to, but KGC, I've never heard of them let's see what kinds of games they've got. /s

Could be interesting if there was Jet Grind game in a city online, but if you play the Crazy Taxi game it's the same city online but you're driving people around while people in the background spray paint buildings.

I can think of a few I'd love to see, Drill Dozer, Digidrive, Soundvoyager, and my favorite, Dotstream.

That's great if true, but all I want is some random matchmaking for all their emulators. I'd play a lot more Mario 64 if it had that or some lobbies. Same with Original Mario Bros.

Those are good games if you haven't played them before but I was really hoping for something like Sonic Mania 2. Or a Sonic Adventure collection would be awesome.

I think my favorites are Enter the Gungeon, Neon Abyss, and Blazing Beaks

@dcstud You start over each time but you usually get to keep something that rolls around next game like a special kind of currency, so you lose but you're next run you might be better or have access to more guns, etc. In a rogue-lite the items, enemies, and level layouts are all randomized so each game plays different. Or take something like Hades, and each character says something different each time you die (or win) so if you want the full story, you have to keep at it. With a lot of rogue-lites just getting to the end of the game to see the credits is not really the end at all, Enter the Gungeon has the Ammonomicon to fill out, secret characters to unlock, gun parts for the special gun that lets you go to the true ending, which must be done for each character, there's the real last level Bullet Hell, a boss rush mode to unlock, quests from NPCs, a level-skip elevator to fix, etc.

There's a lot of good ones there but I think the Wii and DS were the best. When traditional video games had become stale and redundant the Wii and DS showed that with new control setups, there could be new genres that never existed before. And not just that, but Nintendo brought back 2d Mario, and for the first time put out 2 3d Marios on one system, and Galaxy is easily one of the best games ever made.

And they finally got into indie gaming, so if I wanted to play another platformer I didn't have to spend $60 like before. Then Mario Kart DS was online (incredible at the time) and brought back retro tracks (a first for the series), and the Wii eshop had old retro games. I could play video games with my family and my grandparents for the first time ever, they never would have tried games if it weren't for Wii Sports, Bags, TV Show King 2, or Wii Play and it was always lots of fun. I love to draw and the DS actually let me do it or play things like Brain Age, Cooking Mama, or Tetris DS, and both the Wii and the DS were backwards compatible so that gives it an edge over the Switch.

I'm just really happy it's nothing like Mario Tennis, I just couldn't get into that at all. As long as the tennis plays like Wii Sports and Wii Sports Club I think that's how it should be, I'd be disappointed if they complicated things and made it like some other franchise.

D Pad fan all the way, all the other buttons wish they were as cool as the d-pad. Unlike the other buttons, the d pad is reason alone to purchase another controller (SNES d-pad ftw!).

@ModdedInkling A remaster is an enhanced port. If you want to disqualify Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, you'd have to remove Skyward Sword, Final Fantasy VIII Remastered, Katamari Damacy Reroll, and Grim Fandango Remastered from the list also, as they all are enhanced ports with a few QoL improvements.

no Mario Kart 8 Deluxe? That seems like the best of the bunch. The remake has battle mode, labo support, you can get 2 items at once, the resolution is bumped up to 1080 instead of 720, and it includes all the dlc from the original.

Mario 3d All Stars was a great remaster as well, if you were going to play those games again, 3d all stars is easily the best way to play them.

meh, I do not care at all. Just seems expensive for a lot of games that I have no interest in playing. After a couple years with PS Now I realize I'd be happier and save a lot of money just buying the games I like, and since I like Nintendo 1st party games and indies the most, this gamepass deal offers me nothing. Not that they don't have indies on gamepass, but they're a lot cheaper to just buy once in a while, than to pay for several years of service.

I used to like Pokemon but the battles are just too boring for me after all these similar games. I'd play it if they had some kind of arpg thing going for it instead of turn based battles but I just don't feel like the series has evolved enough over the years for me to consider picking another one up.

@BanjoPickles If you're looking for Elevator Action Returns, it's free on Ant Stream Arcade and it has global leaderboards and challenges. They also have regular old Elevator Action and tons of other classics as well.

Day one digital for me, I'll just use the Ring Fit leg strap I've already got and download it. Seems like the kind of game I'd want to always have available for a quick match rather than needing a cartridge change each time.

I don't like it, but I get it. If it's copyrighted material then of course it's not okay to upload and share it around. That's kind of the point of having things copywritten in the first place. Not that it really matters much since they don't sell it anymore, but I'm sure it's some kind of company policy made up by the lawyers that says copyrights are active for however many years the law says.

I know gamers hate pushing buttons but if you just hit left, A, L it takes you right there in less than a second. But I get it, I'm sure people could use that half a second to do other more important things. Life is so hard.

I'd rather have a sequel but would love some more ARMS dlc. That's the only Switch game I have that I play just about every day and am happy with what's there, but it would be nice if they added some more arms to the arm catcher and added more gallery items since I'm at a point now where I have no new arms to get and extra in-game money and nowhere to spend it. And some new characters and stages wouldn't be bad either.

I'm sure they just need that so they can put out some rad Silent Hill NFTs and maybe some more old ports.

I tried it out, but the demo was super boring, it's just another endless runner with really simple gameplay. And even if I liked runners, there are much better ones out there. I'm really not sure why they put out articles about this, when there are loads of far better games more deserving of coverage.

It's a good thing they have these tournaments, otherwise nobody would ever have picked up a game like Super Smash Bros. Nintendo really needs these guys, otherwise I'm sure they'll get bought up by Sony any day now. /s

it just looks generic, just because things can look realistic doesn't mean they should. Some people think realism = good graphics but I just think it looks boring and uninspired. Just looking at that water or the grass on the ground and I'd have no idea what game it is, could be anything at all; the real game has identifiable textures for everything that give it it's own charm.

@Mgalens old ports are fine, I reject that their new business is focused on NFTs and won't be contributing to them continuing this practice. Far as I'm concerned they could create the greatest games ever (though clearly all they are capable of is putting old roms on some emulators), I still wouldn't buy them. Konami is dead to me, and unless they want to proclaim that they are done with the world destroying NFT swindle, that's the way it's going to stay. I have loads of games to play, I don't need this nonsense.

All Konami knows how to do lately is make NFTs and put up some old ports. They were fine games but I'm not buying this. They're all easy to get for nothing, have been for decades, the only reason to buy something like this is to support the company and I don't think there's anything about modern Konami that I want to support.

Wow, they add new features and comments full of complaints. I'm just happy it still costs 1/3rd for a year of online compared to MS or Sony. If you don't care about all those bells and whistles, $60 is way too expensive just to play games online. At a dollar something a month I don't have anything to complain about. I'd probably still be signed up for PSN if they were that cheap.

That's okay, I'm sure if they're anything like Nintendo, you can just take the controllers off and send them back in the mail where they'll fix them for free, lol

The best game ever! I'm not allowed to talk about it, but it's going to be a huge hit when it releases.

I find it odd that someone would expect a beta test to allow footage to be shown before the game releases to the public. I occasionally do beta tests, and for every game I've played, mums the word, can't upload videos or screenshots or tell anyone anything.

I was looking forward to recording this, but it's no big deal, I can wait until it launches. Still excited to try it out.

@Anti-Matter I can understand where you're coming from, a fan of more all ages content rather than a lot of guns and whatnot, but Portal and Portal 2 are great games well worth playing for anyone who has yet to play them. It's about as unviolent as it gets, you're gun doesn't even shoot bullets, and even if it did, there are no humans in the game except for yourself, and no bad guys really to speak of. And at 20 bucks it's drastically undervalued, and probably the best games on the system (assuming they're ported properly).

Yeah I played and I agree with the review. It's not so bad, but the thing is Dead Cells and Neon Abyss are much better games of this style and if I'm going to play a game like that, might as well play the best. I didn't get that far I guess, but what I played felt a bit repetitive and didn't seem to offer anything very original, but what can you expect for a remake.