After spending "several hours" with Wii Sports, IGN's Nintendo editor Matt Casamassina doesn't like the game due to flawed controls with the exception of Wii Bowling which he calls "totally rocking." Regarding Tennis, he had this to say: "You don't control anything except the swing of your player's racket. The movement of these Mii-alike athletes is all done automatically by the game. You simply swing the Wii remote back and forth to make your on-screen character do the same thing."
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
Relive the glory days of Wii.
The Switch just isn't equipped for a killer sports title like the Wii was
A lot of the points made here are true, yet let's give it a chance, because like the author said, the Wii was a motion control console and everyone did view it as such while the switch is not, so the way people view the game determines how much they invested in it, so again let's give it a chance and see
Wii sports was truly atrocious and you're saying Switch Sports will be even worse? It does not bode well for Switch Sports indeed.
Wii Sports was ok for screwing around, but the games lacked depth. Also I'm not sure why it seems like they decided to stick with the automatic player movement so all you need to do is swing to hit something. Very noob friendly but not as much fun IMO.
Wii Sports was THE game for casuals. I don’t feel many casuals own the Switch. I can’t see this doing the numbers Wii Sports did.
Course it won't, the Wii was a phenomenon. Something new with the motion tech. A curiosity to almost everyone. Obviously Switch sports won't create the same impact.
Finally someone else is saying this. I tried Wii Boxing here at the local Nintendo Fusion show about a month ago, and it was crap. It only seemed to recognize certain motions, and I couldn't figure out for the life of me what the motions were. Tried doing small and compact motions, tried flailing away at the screen. Point being, after our time on it, my friend and I both agreed that it was interesting having a new control input, but we would have both preferred having a regular controller where we weren't getting frustrated by not being able to do anything.
it was just a show how it works, and beside it was E3 software, in other words it was just for the show.
it was made simple, just to SHOW how it could work.
...I'll let you know how it is for real November 19th :)
i do like nintendo, but not a fanboy, i like the 360 and ps3 too...
and yess, they could have done it on the GC but they came up with it after the GC.
and the reason i want the wii is becozz after 16 years of gaming....i really want something new.
but hey to you its gimmick allot others think its not.
and its all about mario/zelda/wario inc/supersmash....and i bet there is gonna be a new F-zero .... and more good nintendo games.
even if it turns out as a gimmick, i know the games would be fun to play.