It's Official, The Nintendo Switch Sports Free Golf Update Arrives Next Week

Im glad Nintendo was able to get this substantial and never seen before sport out nearly six months after the game released. Truly an accomplishment in the gaming landscape.

"Once again, this is a completely free update ..."

Like my permanent teeth were a completely free update to my body.

I skipped the game due to the lack of golf and I don't plan to buy it now.

Maybe if I get it cheap second hand.

I have something like 80 hours in this game from playing for cosmetics weekly. Having Golf finally here is exciting, but I’m wondering if this is the end for gameplay updates. Nintendo is typically pretty good at letting us know when the update-drip will cease or not, but that still seems to be up in the air for Switch Sports, if you exclude the weird cosmetics that get added every week.

im happy its finally coming but annoyed a mode with reused maps took 7 months to come out

i hope they give us the courtesy of telling us when major updates end the same way acnh did, with the slow pace of updates they could easily silently kill it

I forgot this game existed.

Nice to get an update to get me into the game again for bit just like Mario kart and the booster pass. I feel like this mode will be a big disappointment though and it won’t be much different than anything we’ve seen before. I don’t think there’s any new course either.

Still no boxing. 🙄
This business practice by releasing incomplete game was turned me off.

Good, glad to have more free content. If only they had a frisbee golf mode too like Wii Sports Resort.

I might pick this up later now that golf was added in. But I’m really happy just playing Easy Come Easy Golf.

It was never "completely free". You paid upfront with the assurance that you would get the content later. Buy now. Play later. Golf was promoted during the announcement trailer for crying out loud (though they were upfront about it not being available at launch).

Switch Sports should have been delayed until the holiday season after all of the sports were ready (Nintendo doesn't seem to have any other holiday titles coming up anyway, so, something like this would have been a great stocking stuffer), but Nintendo got greedy and wanted to start cashing in on an unfinished game like they did with virtually all of their Switch sports games before it (ARMS, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Mario Strikers). They get away with this sort of anti-consumer behaviour too often and I'm quite fed up with it. Wii Sports Club on Wii U launched unfinished at launch as well, but at least that was released digitally first, with the complete experience issued on disc once it was good and ready. Now that sort of business model I would not necessarily object to, but releasing a physical product with much of its best content not on the cart? Screw that.

I predict that It's only a matter of time before Nintendo reissues Switch Sports in a revised box that includes the sports that weren't on the cart at launch, in which case, I'll finally consider picking this up (and hope that they don't issue any more updates beyond that). I don't mind waiting as I found the pre-release demo to be quite underwhelming. Frankly, I would have preferred a port of Wii Sports Club.

EDIT: Just to clarify my last point, Nintendo usually includes all the latest patches on the cartridge in reprints, but it would be nice to also have a box that adequately reflects all of the sports that were added in later.

To quote from Reddit's comment :

released just long enough after the playerbase has fell off, now they have no reason to add more sports because not many people play it now.

@whatupbiatch

Might be the same with Mario Strikers (much worse because it's 60$)

EASILY my favorite gaming experience of 2022 is Soccer from Switch sports with the leg strap. (Seriously, I only tried it out because I thought 'why not?' I would never have imagined how fun it would be to play with the strap online, it's really amazing)

I'm happy to check out Golf... when it comes out...
And now back to the leg strap!

I feel like we’re going to look back at this era and see the lack of fleshed-out multiplayer games as Nintendo’s biggest fly in the Switch ointment. I don’t think it’s that much to ask for a game to eclipse content from a PACK-IN GAME ON THE WII, much less a full-price Switch game in the year of our Lord 2022, to the point that we’re just happy to have GOLF after it’s been delayed so many times…
Yet we continue to shove this down our throats because we’re just so happy to have these games on the Switch at all, and casuals won’t play it enough to notice a dearth of content. And thus the cycle continues.

Happy for people that are enjoying it, and what’s here does look quite fun but this is one of the few games I will not buy for full price on principle. Maybe someday if I get a crazy discount or the game gets a lot more modes I might jump, but I gotta take a stand somewhere…

Waited 7 months for a basic feature to be added that should've been there at launch. This better come with a free meal and foot massage

@JakedaArbok : While I loved the idea of pack-in games from years gone by, considering my preference for physical copies, I'm more apprehensive about it nowadays as most pack-in games are now digital. I wouldn't mind if the game is offered as a download code and I can just sell it and put that money toward the cost of a physical copy, but if a game like Wii/Switch Sports had been digital only? No freaking thanks.

I admit I picked this up hoping Golf would be only the first of many sports added to this game. Now, it feels like this may the the end of the updates. Really too bad. Nevertheless, I am excited to play Golf!

@Xiovanni There were 3 extra courses on Wii Sports Resort.

Switch Sports is great online. Golf will be a blast.

But...we need more sports!

I’d originally planned to pick up this game once golf was added…but now that it’s here, months later, I find myself wishing it was all on the cart. And they’re probably not going to reprint it like that.

Even if they did, I think I might find myself underwhelmed by the offerings here. Not many sports, not tons of variety with the sports they do have. A bit of a missed opportunity all in all.

That's why I didn't bother buying this game yet. I'll wait until it contains everything it was supposed to have during launch. I really dislike this new practice of Nintendo to release incomplete games and add "free content" later as if they're doing everybody a favour. It's pretty transparent, if you ask me.

6 months after launch despite all courses taken from the Wii game and not a single original course made for it. Poor show Nintendo.

It took six months for a single mode to come out?
Do people even care at this point?
Everyone I know seems to have move on to other switch titles like splatoon and pokemon.

@Xiovanni There is a bonus 3 courses you can unlock.

I’m really excited for golf

Like free is something huge... It should be a norm to get free updates after you paid a huge sum of money.

DLC and payable upgrades are a complete ripoff.

How someone can be mad about this is beyond me. Just enjoy the f***ing game and stop complaining.

It's seven months after launch. Why do so many people here say six? Not like that makes it better. Why did it take so long if the courses aren't even completely new?

This might be the most fun sport in the game. I will wait a while longer, because I hope every update will be on the cartridge.
If not I will purchase it anyway. The tone of the game is really relaxing.

No new courses? What is this, Mario Kart?!?

this and strikers just didnt need to exist in this current form

Awesome news, the best thing about these sports titles is the golf, in my own opinion of course, hoping we get all the classic retro courses at some point.

@Duffman92,

You would think so.........but no, on here some have to complain about each and every game.

@iLikeUrAttitude,

I care, and it's not like Nintendo lied and said that Golf was available at launch, yes they did delay it slightly, but that was to improve the games overall performance.

You are on the Pokemon thread suggesting GameFreak should have delayed the latest games release so it was less buggy, and so the overall game ran better, then when a company actually does it you still complain.

You seriously could not make any of this stuff up if you tried.

@blindsquarel hahahaha brilliant! You need to get that comment to the guys at Nintendo. Well played sir

Nintendo made a brilliant Golf Game with Wii Sports. Then destroyed it with Wii Sports Ressort. Then made a time trial Golf Game with Mario Golf: Super Rush.
Interested to see wich route this one takes. But my lessons learned are: Do not rely on Nintendo when it comes to a Golf Game.

Wii Sports Golf was probably the best golf game for the Wii despite being a throw away title, so this might actually make Switch Sports worth buying. Bet you can get this game dirt cheap on the used market.

I sure wish they would have delayed this game until later, I have been having a ton of fun playing it every day or so, I just wish I could remove that fun I had and forget it ever happened. Fun games are the worst.

I thought
Wii sports 9 holes
Wii sports resort 18
Wii u club sport 27
Switch sports would have previous 27 plus 9 new... Hmmm

@Duffman92 Some people like their games finished, it is what it is.

@johnvboy

Good for you, and I didn't insinuate that Nintendo ever lied about the golf mode, you're just being overly defensive as usual.

Yes SV released in a broken state and preferring the game to be delayed so it wouldn't be a mess at launch isn't anything out of the ordinary.
Instead of Nintendo Switch Sports delaying the game so people wouldn't be starved for content they just delayed a single mode 7 months after it's release while interest dies significantly.
Seriously if the launch was going to be this barebones they should've just delayed it, at least it runs well unlike SV.

@iLikeUrAttitude,

So they should delay it, or they shouldn't, at this point am so confused as to what you actually want.

@johnvboy Whats so hard to understand?
I just said if it took so long for a mode to come out they should've delayed the game altogether.

@iLikeUrAttitude,

Ah I see, do not agree, I have had more than enough fun with the initial sports on offer, and now are looking forward to the Golf, a difference of opinion, not the first time, and I am sure it will not be the last.... no biggie though, we can't all like the same things.

I've been waiting for this! Sweet!

@iLikeUrAttitude
The era of finished games died in 2006 with the ability to provide patches through an online connection.
As far as I know the game was perfectly playable in its initial state so what you‘re getting is a free bonus that is added to the game. I see no reason for complaints here.