Japanese Switch Bundle Containing Nintendo Switch Sports Tees Up For December Release

Agreed, seeing that box gives me Wii-generation vibes and I love it. I’d love to see another motion-controlled party game from Nintendo, just make sure it has more content lol.

Nintendo is after the blue ocean stragglers now. Should sell well for the holidays.

Ever since Switch Sports was announced I thought a bundle was inevitable. Only surprised it seems to be a Japan only thing.

"Right in time for the addition of the hotly-anticipated golf mode to the game"

You mean to tell me the $39.99 re-boot launched with only 1/2 the amount of activities as the original title and they just recently added golf as a "free update", bringing the total number of activities to 7? Oh, and they also plan to release even more activities in 2023 as paid DLC? Neat.

That's a stark contrast compared to Wii Sports Resort that included 13 activities the day it launched.

Love, love, love Switch Sports - easily my GOTY of 2022.

@Astral-Grain That's cool that you never played Wii Sports before, you outta try it, it's a lot of fun. But, it's got less content than Switch Sports, and nowhere near as good. I get that people love to complain about Nintendo games, especially motion controlled games but you should complain about real problems not lies that make things sound worse than they are. The first game had...Baseball (boring), Boxing (ARMS is way better), Tennis, Bowling, and Golf. That's FIVE games.

Launch Switch Sports has 6 already, Golf will make it 7. It's even more games than the last game, Wii Sports Club had 5, and unlike that (or Smash Bros.) thanks to the rollback netcode it has fantastic online. But don't let reality get in your way, you keep on hatin' if that's what makes you feel good.

@Nintendo_Thumb Yeah but half the games in switch sports are somewhat similar to tennis, so there’s far less variety. Also Wii sports resort had far more games with far more variety

@Nintendo_Thumb "I get that people love to complain about Nintendo games, especially motion controlled games but you should complain about real problems not lies that make things sound worse than they are."

The "Nintendo Hater" might would work if I actually hated Nintendo, but I don't and haven't said anything to indicate I do. I'm just a normal consumer that noticed a re-boot of an old title includes less content and is generally less fun than the original title(s).

I will admit I mistakenly named Wii Sports when I actually meant Wii Sports Resort - which launched in 2008 including 13 activities to play through.

Please feel free to elaborate what other "Lies" I am spreading.

People need to play Switch sports before criticising it. The controls are spot on, with far more nuance than I remember on the original.
It’s also good fun online and even more so in local multiplayer.

It still have no boxing on it. 🙄

Regular Switch and not an OLED? I know I would've gotten an hypothetical OLED bundle, even if it costed a bit more.

The average family would probably prefer a price cut on the hardware rather than bundling a rubbish game and charging full price.

Nintendo are being very naive if they think this is going to perform like Wii Sports. We all know that's not going to happen.

If they want to improve install base... drop the price. The software, and especially digital sales, are more than making up any shortfall.

@Astral-Grain Wii Sports Resort has 12 sports, not 13.

@BTB20

1. Swordplay
2. Wakeboarding
3. Frisbee
4. Disc golf
5. Archery
6. Basketball
7. Table tennis
8. Golf
9. Bowling
10. Power cruising
11. Canoeing
12. Cycling
13. Air Sports

@OnlyItsMeReid Which game(s) play similar to tennis? Did you determine this using purely your imagination or what?

Because none of the games play the same. If you're thinking of Badminton, it's clearly built off the Sports Club tennis engine with the free moving motion controlled 1 to 1 racket that always needed to be reset by pushing down on a wiimote, except when you hit the ball it just kind of floats around for a while giving your opponent ample time to hit the ball no matter where it lands on the court, so there's literally zero strategy and it's boring as hell, also only 1 on 1.

Volleyball uses two joycons to move your character left or right in addition to side spikes, jumps, spikes, hits, and you always have a partner in 2 v 2. The score goes up to 5 (not 7). You really have to watch where your opponent is aiming to block their shots if your in front, and be left or right enough to dive for the ball if it passes your front player. Tennis or badminton you have to move your wrist as if there were a racket attached but here you need to reach up with your arms to hit the ball so it's a very different motion.

Tennis has a more refined swinging form from Wii Sports, not 1 to 1 like the mess that was Sports Club Tennis, it always has 2 players on each side so you get a ghost player on your side if it's just you and that adds to the depth tremendously. You can act like the front player isn't there but only if you're not good at the game. Once you get good, you need to look at the shadow of the ball and use your front person if the shot looks like it will be in, but out of reach of your back player. It's crucial to use both players, because unlike Badminton the ball goes fast and if you barely hit a shot that will allow your opponent to spike it. You can recover from a spike if you use your front man to swing just as your opponent spikes. What you want to do to win, is hit the ball back and forth to opposite sides of the court to where your opponent is running back and forth sweating and can't keep up and they miss, barely hit it giving you a spike chance, or they screw up from the pressure and hit the ball out. There's also spin you can add to the ball while swinging, and if you change from front player to back player often enough those kinds of things will mess with your opponents head and lead them to swinging early or late causing a out of bounds.