Take A Look At Some Impressive Hi-Res Nintendo Switch Sports Screens

ill miss wuhu island but i do like their approach to a more city-scape sports hub, its a more industrial contrast but still pretty and vibrant. the sportsmates have grown on me too even if their customization will be more sterile and rely on outfits to stick out. ill give sportsmates a pass as a way for the game to be more marketable to modern audiences, we still have the miis so its not like we're not losing options

my main gripe is the whole "free dlc" approach nintendo games have had on switch. using online play as a way to justify the lack of modes and content on release. having tennis, badminton, and volleyball look so visually and mechanically similar isnt the best first impression for the selection either

@Royalblues it likely wasn't a launch game as it doesn't support handheld mode. Would have been a confusing proposition soon after launch to have a game that isn't "switch-able".

Where is da Boxing ?!
Boxing on it or pitchforks.

Designing an entire coastal sports complex has got to be a great assignment, even if it won't ever be built for real.

Looks good! I'm still on the fence, hoping there is a demo to check it out. It's funny that 15 years after wii sports the wii remote still feels better than joycon motion controls.

I wish you could walk around and explore the city

The Switch emulator Yuzu already supports AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution technology since last year. It's built into the emulator so every Switch games can be scaled up to 4K.

Why can't Nintendo do the same? Put AMD FSR tech into the firmware so every games can utilised it?

@MaxiPareja But that is exactly the same with the actual launch title: 1-2 Switch. This game just wasn't planned at the start of the switch lifecycle.

The character models look awful and Nintendo should have just kept using the Miis. However, I do like the sound design, which seems to keep a lot of motifs from Wii Sports (Resort). Let's see what it's like when it's released this autumn.

tried the demo
hard pass

These look very nice. I played the beta and it looked and felt great there too. Definitely getting this title as I could use a fun party game to play with friends aside from Mario Party. Plus I wanna keep playing the online bowling battle royale!

Only disappointment is that golf isn’t included at launch but at least it’s coming.

@Anti-Matter Boxing was the worst game on the original!!!!

@dkxcalibur
I like the Boxing from Wii Sports, just need some polish like Boxing on Olympic Games by SEGA and I will like it more.

@Anti-Matter I think the fitness boxing games are supposed to be solid too, but I've never played them.

Leaving me cold. No Golf no buy. Easy as that.

@TommyTendo Ugh, man, I can't stand when games like this are bogged down by making you walk around through a hub world instead of just having a menu and letting you play the game. That'd get old quick when all I want to do is just play the dang ball game.

@dkxcalibur
The only the best boxing game I have ever played was K-1 on PS2 Japan version and K-1 on GBA.
K-1 is Kickboxing in Japan and the sport still exist until today but for the games only lasted until year 2006 on PS2 Japan.

@Bret You could do both in Nintendo Land

@Serpo FidelityFX Super Resolution (1.0) is a spatial upscaler (so it only needs the image and not any temporal information, unlike FSR 2.0), so yes, it can be easily applied after the rest of the rendering in the emulators, and it could be done on Switch as well (although it does have a small impact on performance). However, this is not the best solution because then it will upscale the game view and the UI at the same time. This will result in some artefacts, so the better way to do it is to use FSR on game view and only after that render the user interface.

In fact, what you described is exactly what Steam Deck does (if you have the feature turned on). Works well enough, but it's not an ideal solution. Instead developers should implement the feature in their own rendering code. Thankfully it's open source, so it doesn't cost the dev anything else than a little bit of time.

Edit: That said, I guess it would be cool as an option. Even if it's not ideal, it could work well on some games.

@Bret It could work like Splatoon, where you can walk to the different game modes, shops etc, or just press a button to jump there directly.

@TommyTendo I barely remember. That's a nice solution.

Looks like there is no empty space around SPOCOO Square...
A bunch of buildings will need to be demolished in order to build the golf courses.

Was that a Basketball court in the background 😯.Future DLC maybe 🤔 for that sport(Also this better be free roam of some sorts cuz that would be dope as all hell!)

I just played the demo. Poor game. poorer than Kinect Sports 1 & 2. Kinect Sports 1 & 2 is better than Swich Sports (DEMO).

Very disappointed. This is a U$9,90 game, NEVER U$39,90.

I actually don't mind that it isn't set on Wuhu Island. It expands the Wii Sports world and shows us more places in the Mii universe.

Of course, the problem is that the Miis aren't the main characters of this entry, but we've already talked about that enough for now, I'll save my anger for later.

@Royalblues

And you did try to upgrade those Joy-cons to the newest firmware, right?

I want another Go Vacation! game.
That was unironically a lot of fun lol

Looks great. Just please for the love of god let the player move the character in Tennis! Wii sports handicapped tennis so bad by not allowing you to control the player. I'm worried tennis in switch sports is also gonna be nerfed by the same decision.

And it better have the training modes for each sport like the original did. I played the heck out of those golf training modes.

If they do things right this game could be amazing: Tennis character control, fun training modes, more than 9 holes of golf, and ideally add in boxing as an extra update after golf (though unfortunately I doubt it).