Serena And Venus Williams To Play In $1 Million Mario Tennis Aces Charity Tournament

Wow I don't even think it's that great of a tennis game but this is a really cool thing for them to be doing. Considering how the game has pretty much nothing in common with real tennis it should come down to who has the best gaming skills.

Brilliant!! I LOVE Mario Tennis Aces and can highly reccomedn it to anyone...the play style is so tight and has made for some nail biting matches...
I played one online a few days ago that went on for almost an hour...it was brilliant!
I hope we can watch this match in UK. I read tat Justin Bieber will be playing for Hailey.

You know that gaming has become mainstream when this happens. Sports stars? Celebrities? Facebook? If Nintendo aren't involved in this, they must be very pleased with the free publicity.

@Toads-Friend I agree, when you come up against someone evenly matched it is brilliant. I lost an absolute epic once in the final tie-break after being neck and neck the whole way through and I didn't even care because it was such a great match.

That’s actually a pretty good lineup of tennis stars and celebrities. Okay, not all household names, but lots of familiar faces.

This will be great for the game and Nintendo, even though it looks like they didn’t have much involvement.

I don't really have much interest in Tennis, Mario or otherwise, but I use Naomi Osaka as an example in my English lessons all the time. She's a great role model, she's a multi-lingual female athlete with varied interests and the kids love her. I couldn't possibly ask for a better celebrity to use in examples as an American teaching English in Japan.

Super glad to know this. I'm gonna try and stick this story into a lesson! Thanks NL!

Oh this was about Serena Williams? I don't know anything about her.

Again celebrities using Covid-19 to let people know they still exist and think they are important.

News flash, they are not important. And one good thing from this pandemic is that people start to notice how unimportant these "celebrities" are.

@Ooccoo_Jr aaaw thats very sport-like of you Great attitude I hope to play you one day (im not good but really love it!) great roster too!!!!

@sanderev
These are celebrities? I have no idea who any of them are

I know more tennis players than celebrities...

Gaming becoming mainstream mainstream

This is a great move, a move of marketing genius.... Money goes to charity, celebs get good pr exposure and next week Mario Tennis Ace's re-enters the top ten.... It's good mainstream viewing for Nintendo....

If they added just a bit more campaign content to this game I'd buy it as I totally loved the Demo they did. But I've heard the single-player is a bit light - would anyone recommend it anyway?

How is the online? - cos I've nobody interested in local coop.

@sanderev Or they are raising money for charity and providing entertainment which is super cool of them?

Look I share your opinion that celebrities aren't special they're just entertainers. But there's a ton of them who really and truly only care about themselves. I think it's pretty cool for these folks to do this.

That is so awesome!!

@Heavyarms55 Anyone on the list of people would have enough money to do a sizable donation to the cause. You don't need a make believe tournament for that.

i dig it, that game was weirdly intense and had me sweating

@sanderev No, instead they're raising the money and having fun while providing entertainment and employing people. So much "worse".

Look I get it. I honestly do think basically no celebrity has actually earned the immense wealth that most have. I don't think any job is worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars every year. But nuance matters. These folks are doing a lot more good than most. Lot's of people worth more money in a year they we'll even see in our entire lives are taking government handouts right now. But these folks are giving something back instead. Maybe they could do more, but they could certainly do far less.

@sanderev So how much have you donated to charity this year?

@KoopaTheQuick Agreed. In years gone by it would also have only been done with a 'realistic', officially-licensed sports title, rather than those 'kiddy' Mario sports games.

@Toads-Friend Meh, it's fun for a game or two but it isn't really that good.

It's not a competitive sports game, kinda shallow content.

It's okay for 1 or 2 games every so often but it's not a proper tennis game. It just doesn't have the depth.

Personally not a game I would recommend to anyone remotely interested in actual competitive sports games.

Seal? The Kiss From a Rose himself?

Sad no Dan Castelanetta among the celebrities. "OH NO! MY TENNIS STICK!"

@shaneoh I only know the pro Tennis Players and DeAndre Hopkins and Ryan Tannehill as they are professional American Football players. I can understand why someone who doesn't care about American Football wouldn't care.

@Heavyarms55 I thought that a lot of Japanese people didn't like Naomi because she was half black?

And I see your point about celebrities, but most of them could give a million easily instead of raising a million. A million to them might be equivalent to 300$-500$ dollars for people with an average living wage. Also I think a lot of them have massive egos and only do "charitable" things so people will think better of them. The vast majority of rich people are entirely lacking of empathy and pr stunts like this are a result of that.

SPLATOON2 got a sale with the demo. Can this not get a demo too. How about some of the money go to covid related charities

@GracefulGazelle
That would explain a bit, being in a different country, I don't get American Football on TV

Funny that you don’t count pro tennis players as celebrities. 😂

@TheRealKyleHyde Not really. iI believe it's more to do with the current situation and that now, more than ever, they aren't getting the attention they want or crave. celebrities especially are desperate, with how irrelevant they are in people's lives. you think they'd even consider this if all our lives were carrying on as normal? I very much doubt it. any media attention they can use to get public exposure, they'll lap it up at the moment. Maybe that sounds cynical but then I have no interest whatsoever in celebrities and couldn't care less about any of them. Other than that,Mario tennis is pretty good 😉

@Cool_Squirtle Naw, that's just a tiny bit of the Japanese right wing. Every country has their grumpy old racists but they don't represent the majority. She's one of the most popular athletes here. And that's another aspect, the typical backlash that anyone or anything popular gets just for being popular.

I'm shocked they're still trying with this game. It's the best tennis game there will ever be but now that Nintendo's better franchises are on the system Mario tennis seems like it should be an afterthought.

@sanderev Everybody has their own way of doing things. It's not that serious.

@PlayedNSlayed Damn dude do you know these people to make such a claim? To generalize all these people as shallow, shows just how shallow your comment is.