Nintendo Switch Sports Version 1.4.0 Now Live, Here's What's Included

For those wondering: These special items are 7 different crowns that you get awarded for achieving A Ranks on each of the sports. If you’ve already achieved A in the respective sport, play once more and it will be unlocked.

They also updated the Home a menu icon to include Golf at the bottom, which I know irked some players.

Pretty small update, but good news for those who might have missed out on past content. I feel like they’re winding things down in terms of content, with the Nintendo standard of 1 year support.

@Kyloctopus Thanks for the clarification. I too expect they are winding down, which is too bad - it is a really fun game, online anyway. Offline it is really lacking depth, but online - I'm still playing it 10 months later and enjoying it quite a bit.

Loved the Golf update it’s easily the best sport for me now! Be cool if we got at least one more sport like Baseball

This game gets a lot of content to this day. It shows Nintendo has great aspirations for it

There are also 14 different outfits that can be unlocked through offline play: 7 gold and 7 rookie, for each sport. The gold outfits can be unlocked by beating a Powerhouse CPU, scoring >200 points in bowling, and scoring under par in golf. The rookie outfits can be unlocked by playing a sport online or offline 15 times.

Still no boxing on it.

oh we're finally at the reissue wave, the games cosmetics must be winding down now

ive enjoyed my time with the game but i do wish it came with more surprises. its massive popularity had me hoping for more sports and side modes, shame those datamines for dodgeball and jogging never led anywhere

@Hero-of-WiiU I need to try out the golf. I was looking forward to it and then forgot. Glad to hear it is good.

@Anti-Matter Boxing would be great! It would probably have to be free DLC.

This game would reach a larger audience as a free NSO subscription game. Then they could add sports to it over time (and add value to the subscription).

First they left out golf, because of this I lost instantly any interest and now I don't care anymore.

@TheBigBlue welll this is basically the end of it. Putting you into collecting old stuff i’m afraid…

now that golf is added i really wanna give this a try. I really hate exercising but that all the more reason to play this game!! xD

Good news about items. I want more golf holes

From a pure gameplay standpoint, Switch Sports is fantastic and really does feel like a culmination of 15+ years of the Wii Sports franchise. Such a shame then that the single-player aspect was neglected, ultimately leaving things feeling slightly hollow.

Considering the game mechanics are light years more complex than they were in Wii Sports, it's baffling that there are no training mini-games to teach you expert mechanics. Instead relying on you reading the relevant loading screen tips.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I love games where you chase your own high-scores, so it's sad that there's no way of to do this outside golf and bowling. A points-based skill system and challenge stamps would help enormously.

Game could also do with a couple extra sports at least. I think baseball, table tennis, archery and basketball would round out the package (bin volleyball if you have to). Hell, I would just take a new 18 holes for golf.

@Kyloctopus Nintendo generally says when an update is the final content update is so I feel there's still a content update incoming. So like with Mario Strikers, the announcement tweet was:

"Some familiar faces are returning to the pitch…

The final free update for #MarioStrikers Battle League Football arrives this Wednesday 14/12!"

I got Switch Sports after Golf was added to it, as that was the sport I was most interested in and loved playing the in Wii Sports and Sports Resort. However I was disappointed it was just the basic 18 holes (not even the mad extra holes from Resort) and while being graphically better they lacked the character of the originals. Switch Sports really needs an extra sport or two

@TSR3 The Special holes from Resort actually are in the game. You can access them in single-player by selecting '3 Holes'. Online they only appear as a final round (I think only if the final 3 have a particularly high score, but it might just be random).

Cool to see them bring back old cosmetics. They’re a pain to collect them all since it involves so much play time so keeping this system would be a good idea.

The crown for A ranks is also a neat idea. Don’t know if I’m A in any but I know I’m at least B in a couple of the sports. Haven’t played in a couple months but I might boot the game back up this weekend.

@tjhiphop Thanks for the tip. I hadn't thought to select just 3 holes!

I've had this game for almost 7 months and I've only played 4 hours.

Wii Sports Resort is far superior to this game.

I didn't renew the NSO subscription, because I find this service awful.

For me the biggest issue with the online aspect of the Nintendo Switch is the difficulty in matching up with people I don't know personally to play online.

The Nintendo switch only shows "friends" who are ALREADY PLAYING a game. And they won't leave their games to play with me. They have no way of knowing that I want to play with them, because it's impossible to communicate with them.

It should be possible to see WHO IS ONLINE, but NOT PLAYING. People who are waiting for invitations to play. Like on Steam and any other video game. But, wait, there's no way to invite them to play on Switch either. That is, it is a useless online.

I have about 50 friends, I use Discord, and even then, it's really bad to play with online. And when I can play, the quality leaves something to be desired in 80% of Switch games.

That is, I abandoned Nintendo's online.

And with that, Nintendo Switch Sports became, by far, the most useless game in my collection.

All because Nintendo doesn't make an effort to make its games complete, and full of options. Wii Sports Resort was great and I only played it offline obviously.

With each passing year I lose my interest in Nintendo branded products. I do not intend to buy another Nintendo console. For me, playing on Steam is much more fun these days. And my virtual friends are on Steam these days. The nintendo ecosystem is increasingly useless to me.

Wonder what happened to the datamined text strings for dodgeball and basketball from the online play test...

I always thought they would add other nintendo brands to weekly rewards. I.e kirby items the week return to dreamland was announced.

@wutadam Can you tell me exactly what mode I have to play in golf to earn the outfits? I got under par on a 3 hole course, but that wasn't enough. Do I have to do all the 3 holes, or do I have to play all 18? Is 9 enough instead? I can't find the answer anywhere

@wutadam this is incorrect. As someone who frequently bowls over 200, I have yet to see the gold outfit. My 7-year-old daughter got it just last night when she bowled nothing close to 200. The re-issued items are a joke too. My husband, daughter and myself got the re-issued card/items last week after completing the current one, but this week only my husband and I did. I sat and watched my excited 7-year-old as she completed the current items, only to get no re-issued items (she finished on Sunday, so timing has nothing to do with it). Nintendo support is a complete joke and waste of time, so trying to resolve it with them went absolutely nowhere...

@WookAttack
1. The gold outfit for bowling over 200 is only available in the Play Locally mode and cannot be obtained by guest accounts.
2. The reissued items only count cards you've started but not completed. You have to have at least one item from a card to get it reissued.

@TopazLink You have to get under par in an 18-hole game offline. You don't have to get under par for every hole, you just have to finish with a score under par.

@wutadam We don't have a guest account. My husband and I were both watching as our daughter played online last night and received the gold outfit (for bowling) with well below a 200. Also, I play far more than my husband and daughter combined, so she should have the most re-issued items yet to earn. Seeing as we just got our Switch a week before Christmas, we definitely have a lot of items we have not earned yet.

@wutadam Thank you! Do you know if the 3 hole courses count towards unlocking the Rookie outfit? It's the only one I don't have.

After that the only gold outfit I'll be missing is the badminton one but I don't think I'll be getting it anytime soon, I can't even score a single point against the powerhouse cpu...

@TopazLink Playing in any mode counts towards the rookie outfit.

@wutadam Thanks again! Got any tips for beating the badminton powerhouse cpu it's the only one I can't seem to beat

@TopazLink Try to make the CPU think you have a pattern: do repeated smash or drop shots, then do the opposite to throw them off-balance.

In other words, you want the CPU to think they can stay in one place, then hit the birdie as far away from them as possible.