Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch)
The Ring-Con item is already available in-game, so a little optional cardiovascular activity would complete the circle. Perhaps it could be tied into another update — bring back Tortimer's Island Tours and some mini-games. Or just add a gym space onto the museum building so you can do a workout before grabbing some caffeine at Brewster's (which must be coming, surely?).
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Kirby Star Allies (Switch)
The Right Honorable Mr Jon Cartwright (just one of Nintendo Life's resident baritone video gurus) suggested a rail shooter starring none other than HAL Laboratory's favourite son, Kirby.
It's an elegant and ingeniously simple concept; pull at the sides of the Ring-Con to inhale and suck enemies in, then squeeze to shoot out towards others as you're carried through courses of baddies. This could be patched into Kirby Star Allies as an additional mode, or — heck — it could even be its own downloadable title à la Jump Rope Challenge (another title we're sure you could wedge some Ring-Con action into). We'd even consider spending actual currency if Kirby's involved.
How's that for a slice of fried gold? You are taking notes, right Nintendo?
Tetris 99 (Switch eShop)
Another suggestion from Jon, how about a mode in Tetris 99 where you twist to move the falling piece left and right, squeeze to rotate pieces, pull to hold, and perhaps even rotate the Ring-Con away from you to slam your piece own into the well.
Would it offer the speed and precision of a standard pad? Obviously not, but throw in a Ring Fit theme and a bespoke online leaderboard and we'd be the first to crack out the Ring-Con with Tetris for an bonus bit of side-mode fun.
Super Mario Party (Switch)
The potential application of the Ring-Con when it comes to a mini-game bonanza like Super Mario Party could be almost anything. Who in the group can squeeze the Ring-Con the most times in ten seconds? Who can fire an arrow closest to a target? Who can wind a valve the fastest? Who can flip the most pancakes?...
Had there been a Rhythm Heaven game on Switch, that would be on this list, too. Fingers crossed for 2021, I suppose.
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Ring Fit Adventure (Switch)
Finally, if Nintendo don't want to bring the Ring-Con to other games, why not bring other games to Ring Fit Adventure? We've seen some minor crossovers in the Rhythm mode update, but there's potential for so much more.
The world of Ring Fit takes plenty of inspiration from environments in Breath of the Wild and Pokémon Sword and Shield, so why not bring marathon courses from those games as new places to run through and burn some calories? We'd love the opportunity to sprint around an Animal Crossing island while waving at our favourite residents, for example, kinda like how we jogged around Wuhu Island in Wii Sports Resort. Alternatively, we'd happily go for a run around one of the Wild Areas from Sword & Shield, spying Pokémon as the weather changed. Or how about haring around a Splatoon arena avoiding maritime hazards and jumping over pools of paint?
Bringing worlds from other games into Ring Fit Adventure would work as a clever piece of cross promotion, and add value for anyone who's already got these games and peripherals — the courses could even unlock if a save file from a corresponding game was found on your Switch. There you go, Nintendo, you can have that one.
What's that? "Just play Wii games if you want some extraneous movements jammed into your 'proper' games"? Oh no, that's waaay too much work! Effort-wise, we're aiming for more than slouching on the couch but well short of actually breaking a sweat. It's a very specific zone we're targeting which doesn't include digging through the loft and finding AAs for our Wiimotes.
Let us know below which of the ideas above sounds most fun, plus your own ideas and suggestions for little Ring-Con modes Nintendo could wedge into its existing Switch library.
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I want to play Bakugan with the Ring-Con
It would be fun as an option though I wouldn't use it for long.
While they're at it, Nintendo should also retroactively update all of these games so that they can be played with Wii Vitality Sensor, definitely maybe improbably finally coming late 2021, expected to be the hottest gift this Christmas!
Pre-orders close 31st March, 2021. Never to be repeated. I repeat, never to be repeated!
How about playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe / Super Mario Odyssey with DDR Mat ? 😆
Yeah....I don't see these happening. And if they were added they would be forgotten after 20 minutes.
Just detach your Joy Cons and start flailing! Pretend it's the Wii days and you'll burn all the calories
Better yet, add more content to Ring Fit. A few Super Mario levels where you have to fight Goombas and other enemies before Bowser at the end would be awesome.
Pyo puyo tetris with the ring con LOL
Zelda does seem perfect for Ring Fit, I would like to run around that world using it and shoot arrows, too.
Nintendo hasn't even added any content via patch to Super Mario Party, the last thing they'd add to it is ring con compatibility lol.
The only thing I want in Ring Fit Adventure is a download of the full game, this is one of those games that you will play every day, and having it digital will make it easier to go in train a little and tune out into another game. One of the few games I regret that comes in a cart.
There was a Tetris game on the Wii which used the Balance Board, but sadly that is locked behind the defunct Wii Shop.
How many games supports Labo VR after years?
Exactly. Nintendo don't care.
oh man, LM3 almost fits too well. i was holding out hope we'd at least get more songs for the rhythm game, so many great nintendo soundtracks to pick from
ARMs! Could be it’s own character.
@boxyguy plus the luigi’s mansion arcade was a rail shooter.
It's easy said then done. Nothing is free to just patch there has to be submission and testing and then testing and then release this is not a easy as 1,2,3 done.
I want to play doom eternal with the ringcon!
I'd Love for this to happen.
Mostly Mario Party.
@KingMike That was Tetris Party. I'm pretty sure there is a physical version of it for wii.
If it's a free update I'd check it out sure. Though I don't think it's really needed considering Ring Fit sells really well on its own. Labo didn't really sell all that great I think so it needed the boost.
I don't see this happening
Please Nintendo. Announce some new games so these people can write something worthwhile.
There was a silly little attachment for the Wii. It was basically a pedometer and disabled the joystick if you weren't jogging in place. No software interaction or anything... but it felt like you had to move for the character to move.
I used mine for HOURS playing games like Galaxy... and I actually lost weight! Something as simple and not especially difficult to pull off would be a godsend for Ring Fit on the Switch.
This seems like a waste of money to invest.
The novelty of using this would quickly wear off and you go back to original controls it’s like soul calibur with a fishing rod it is fun but the controller is always the best option
First of all... TETRIS 99 already has a RFA theme. Secondly... WHY DON'T WE HAVE A NEW Wii SPORTS RESORT!?!?!?
I like all those suggestions! Make it happen, Nintendo.
Cadence. Of. Hyrule.
Seems like there could be a really fun flying mechanic that is controlled with the ring con. Could be in Zelda, or a new Pilot Wings game that allows ring con control.
@KingMike you can get it with cfw but pshhhh
@Muddy_4_Ever how was the attachment called ?
@T0biasCZe There were lots of different ones. This one was probably the most known.
https://purenintendo.com/umove-turn-any-wii-game-into-a-fitness-workout-with-the-blaze-u-move-nunchuck-controller-video/
Ring Fit Resort! They could do some Ring-Con games and also include some that use the base joy-con.
Ring-Con games: archery, volleyball, shooting, flying
Leg strap/joy-con: jogging, rock climbing, kickboxing
Joy-Con: tennis, bowling, golf
But Ring Fit Adventure is designed to give out paced exercises in sensible doses. Slapping Ring-Con support on something like Zelda breaks that and leaves people much more open to hurting themselves. Plus let’s be honest, it wouldn’t be that fun and everyone would moan “why are you doing this and not BotW 2” (even though that’s not how game development works).
Mario Tennis and Party could be fun though, I’ll concede there.
A creative way to get your sponsored links in though I guess.
I want literally all.of those because I'm nearly finishing Ring Fit's story and I don't know what will be of my sanity
maybe for the new world ends with you , and a zelda skyward port
Whilst I appreciate this is a very good tongue in cheek article I would probably appreciate Nintendo making the Joycons work properly with regular games without extra peripherals involved!
Ring Fit Adventure 2
That would be better than tacked on mini-games...
I got the Ring-Con working with Fall guys and Subnautica on the PC and think it works pretty well. It would be awesome for Nintendo to follow some of these suggestions though, they just need to add the Ring-Con to the controller button remapping menu so the user can decide how they want to play.
I wanna play hades with the ring con
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