If you can believe it, it has been one whole year since we first got our hands on Nintendo Switch Sports and immediately decided, "Huh, it's just like Wii Sports. Only smaller. And £50."
Of course, some of these impressions were improved somewhat by the free addition of Golf in November of last year, but for the most part, many would agree that the game, while solid, still feels like not quite enough bang for your buck.
So, what would alleviate some of these concerns? It's all well and good having online play and a whole bunch of odd-looking, non-Mii avatar options to be unlocked, but we reckon that the real way to bring people back around would be by adding another sport — because that's what we all got the game for, right?
There's even one extra arena (two, if you count the central building) on the game's main selection screen that sits taunting all those who care to look closely enough, promising another sport to come but not telling us what it is. Come on, who would leave a menu with four options along the top and three off-centred ones on the bottom??
Of course, this is Nintendo that we are talking about so we shouldn't take menu gaps as confirmation of more content to come (*cough* Mario Maker 2 *cough*), but it's fun to speculate all the same.
Looking at the shape of the remaining building down at the bottom right (yep, we're going that deep) and cross-referencing it with all of the events available on previous Nintendo sports titles, we'd say that baseball or basketball would be in with a shout — the overall outline kinda resembles a baseball field, while the circle kinda resembles a basketball. Kinda.
Ok, so yes, we are very much reaching here, but the prospect of another sport or two being added doesn't seem impossible. Below, we have gathered all of the options from both Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort that are yet to make the Switch Sports lineup (removing Resort's 'Swordplay' because it's basically Chambara) and put them into a poll for you to choose which you would like to see come next. Of course, the next sport to be added (assuming there is one) might be something completely new, so you can use the 'Other' option at the bottom and then take to the comments with your prediction.
Here's a list of what might come next:
Which sport did you vote for? Get warmed up and then leave us a comment to let us know.
Comments (78)
Question : Which sport did you vote for?
Me : BOXING !!! 🥊🥊🥊
Could be hockey... If we're going by shape, then it resembles a hockey stick hitting a ball. Before anyone lambasts me, non-ice hockey does exist.
Baseball! With actual people in the stands!
I think Nintendo is done with this game. I really doubt anything more is coming.
The shape of the building looks like a baseball field, but those lines in the circle look too curved to be it.
Honestly it feels like the game should have most of the Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort games in it. I like it, but it definitely feels lesser.
Personally I loved Boxing, Archery and Frisbee. Also that sword fighting game where you fought hordes of Miis. Baseball seems a real no-brainer though. I don’t know why it didn’t launch with that?
Remember when basketball and dodgeball references were datamined in the online play test? Sure would be nice to get those (and baseball, too)
Free DLC:
This game needs 8+ sports and New game modes to be a $39 game.
Boxing. Boxing should have been included from launch.
Nintendo is so clueless… I think they think that all is fine and dandy. Same with Strikers…
I'd prefer another new one that's not on Wii Sports or Wii Sports Resort. Curling comes to mind. For the poll, though, I'm with the majority and chose baseball. Boxing or basketball would be cool, too.
Agree with all of the sentiments. Boxing, Archery, Baseball, and Basketball should all be on there by now. TBH, I really don't understand why Nintendo has not supported more DLC for this or either of the Switch Mario Parties (more boards!!!).
how about let the game die and be forgotten about alongside all the Mario sports games
@KBuckley27 yes. No matter how much Nintendo can spend in advertise for next Mario Sport games, using beaultiful images and people smiling. I'll never buy another one.
Really not a fan of the way Nintendo have handled this and other sports titles.
It doesn't feel like they are releasing a full game and adding to it, it feels like releasing part of the game and finishing it up later...
Removed - foreign languages
Golf was NOT enough. I wish they added other sports more often.
I’d like them to add a fitness routine so I could ‘yes, honey, I did my routine today’ after pressing the button ten times.
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Yes, I’m lazy and I could actually use the exercise.
@Anti-Matter,
Your wait to be battered around the ring continues....
Cash grab. Not even close to Wii Sports Resort.
There is no chance that bottom eighth building isn’t a baseball stadium
I keep forgetting this game even exists...
Airplane stuff. Hands down. One of my greatest gaming memories is flying around Wuhu Island.
@PikaPhantom dodgeball!
Its also brutal how in the modern age we call games we don’t like or approve of things like “cash grabs” when people literally spent 15 years begging and fussing at Nintendo to make a new strikers, and 10 years for them to make a new Wii sports. When Nintendo finally bothers to make new entries for those presumed dead franchises, people spit on those games and say they are inferior to the older entries. Battle League and Switch sports aren’t even bad games. People will always play the “lack of content” card against them. Just because you hate the games for not having stupid amounts of content doesn’t mean the games are unplayable and bad. They are family tailored games and they can still be quite fun.
There could have been a lot more single-player, offline material.
I'm not too fond of the FOMO structure revolving around customization options that encourages you to play the game online during spans of time in order to unlock items.
That said, the game is fun on its own. I really like volleyball.
This game should have been a free pack-in with the Switch.
@TheBigBlue They aren't bad games but honestly, Nintendo are not doing these games a service launching them in this sub early-access state.
There's no real reason why people should wait for Daisy to appear in a Mario sports game when they're selling Smash Bros. with 70+ characters right out of the gate.
Perhaps if these games were sold at a lower price point, but the price and slim options available don't scream good value when Nintendo themselves release massive games for the same price.
@TheBigBlue If Nintendo chooses to take 10 years to make expensive games with little content, and that don't have the same quality as previous games... Nintendo better not make them anymore. Who asks for new games, asks for better games, not worse than previous versions.
Nobody needs to accept the full price average quality and lack of content, just because the game has graphics with Nintendo characters. Being a Nintendo game doesn't mean more than a game being by Capcom, or Sony, or Microsoft. It's all the same, and when a game isn't good enough, it deserves criticism. Nintendo is not blind to criticism. Nintendo's neither better nor worse than the others, Nintendo's just one more. Nintendo does not deserve “special treatment”.
I played this game much more than I care to admit but haven’t since earlier this year. The lack of sports is a shame, let alone the absence of the classic boxing. The “Sportsmate” avatars aren’t as good as the Miis. They look and sound like kids yet they can be customized to look more adult, which I find rather uncanny.
I absolutely hate the way you have to unlock customization items. Forget about the “unfinished game” complaint about it, I just think it sucks to be forced to grind just to get the CHANCE of the item you want. It’s like gacha, only free. Why not have a store with in-game currency earned from playing? I’ve just played bowling and chambara because they’re the quickest sports to get points, but bowling takes so long to start.
The rarity of these items sucks, too. Once they’re out, they’re gone seemingly for the rest of the year. When Nintendo revealed a tweak to returning these items under such limited conditions, it felt like a slap in the face and made me want to drop the game for good.
It might still be worth it for some quick offline play but I don’t see them making anything better.
The 3-point shooting was my favorite activity in the Wii Sports series so I'd like to see that return here. Really disappointed in the low amount of sports from the start until now. No reason basketball and baseball shouldn't have been in on day one.
the unlockables are finished now, so the game is finished... it was one of my most played games of last year, so got my money's worth...
although I would like baseball, I just don't see it happening..
@Dev9417 This game has virtually no offline content. I have not renewed the NSO and will never renew. The service is horrible. So I can't even unlock items on Nintendo Switch Sports.
I only pay NSO again if Nintendo copies Steam and allows us to see WHO IS ONLINE WITHOUT PLAYING A GAME, so that I can invite someone who is idle and waiting to play with someone else. Just like on Steam, it should be possible to invite any friend online to play. As long as that doesn't happen, I don't care about NSO's existence.
They should add progression to Nintendo Switch Sports that can be earned offline and online, and allow players to reach Pro and Superstar Classes for each event. While the game is fun to play, without that sense of progress it's hard to say NSS is any better than the original Wii Sports. There's obviously a lot more to be added to be up there with Wii Sports Resort. I think Go Vacation too blows Nintendo Switch Sports out of the water, and is available on the Switch.
Nintendo Switch Sports shouldn't have released without Boxing AND Baseball events. I prefer Boxing to finally be added first, and then Baseball.
@TheBigBlue the mechanics of Nintendos sports titles are amazing, but when there’s nothing to do and they drip feed content, that is a serious issue that people are justified complaining about. Nintendo has done this with so many games in the switch era and it’s just pathetic how much is cut from these games at launch and dripfed later.
BASEBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why isn't Baseball on already?!!!
Just insane to me how pared down this game is in comparison to the 15-year-old Wii Sports Resort. Give us a proper sequel to THAT and I’m on board
this is such a weird game to talk about. theres a lot to be said about its lack of modes and sports, but i still got so much value from the game and its online is FAR better than wii sports club.
with how successful that game was they shouldve supported it longer. nintendo this generation has been bloated with "less modes and content but you can play online now" games and this couldve been so much more
It’s such a real shame that they haven’t added a single sport since golf. I feel like boxing could’ve been a no-brainer considering ARMS uses the joy con functionality extremely well.
@TheBigBlue
Yeah, but like.. Mario Strikers doesn't even come with a compaign, like the first two games did. Count to that the fact that they didn't bother to make extra characters unlockable by playing through the campaign (if it had it anyway) but waited until people's interest begin to fade away.. Well, it's just scummy. Same goes with Nintendo Switch Sports.
It actually saddens me that there are people like you that defend this kind of practice.
@RainbowStarFlower Switch Sports is sold at a lower pricepoint though.
It took golf way to long to get added to the game. It really feels like this is a very low priority game for them.
@TheBigBlue @Mauzuri battle league is a bad example tbh. i bought both games and switch sports is the far better deal. BL is not a big enough evolution to warrant all they cut from previous games. literally, its just one mode. its a fine game that should not be $60, and this being the only mario sport that nintendo offers a free demo to months after it came out tells me nobodys been playing it
i can argue switch sports is a complete $40 game after its updates. less modes, but still far more variety and replayability. the game didnt need to be wii sports resort + more, all the side mode wouldve bloated the online aspect tbh. and the game already shines in its simplicity and ease of use
thats harder to get away with in mario sports, theres needs to be a bigger hook than "main mode and online mode". it failed in ultra smash, and failed again in battle league
Where is the option for “all of them plus a few new ones”?
I want Baseball in Nintendo Switch Sports.
ADD games? I think they should REMOVE some! Who plays badminton, soccer, or that stick fighting thing?
@TheBigBlue,
Ah but these games not only have to be made by Nintendo, but they have to conform to some very vague and yet specific formulas. They have to be both new and exciting, yet at the same time offering all the older games content, but if they are too similar they accuse the developer as lazy.
The games have to offer bonus DLC content, and will be called out often when they do not, but when the developer does offer some free bonus extras, they should have been there all along. So a very specific and none contradictory road map then.
Of course the mass market will just buy Switch sports for what it does offer, not what it does not, and will be very grateful for extra free sports, when and if they appear.. of course these gamers will be labeled as sheep, easily pleased, or indeed celebrating mediocrity... seriously you could not make any of this up if you tried.
@johnvboy bleats loudly
I'd be curious to know if those that complain the loudest have actually played the game. I'm all for utilizing reviews and what not for making decisions on whether to purchase a game, but if I ultimately decide to not purchase a game based on said reviews, I don't spend my time in comment sections reiterating the negatives for a game I've never played. I don't mean to create straw men, but this is the internet, so I'd wager at least a majority of the complainers haven't played the game.
I've had a lot of fun with Wii sports boxing, i'd love to see it on switch. i also think archery could be a great addition as well.
Air Sports would be KILLER, though another part of me hopes it comes back in the form of a PilotWings Resort sequel.
It should have all the wii sport club games in it! But if I can only choose one it would be boxing.
archery could be good,
and seems fairly popular in Japan from what I can tell.
Only way I can see Nintendo doing anything more with this game is through paid DLC.
It'd be called the Resort Club Membership Pass - either a one-off purchase or part of the NSO + Expansion Pass à la Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass.
Certain sports to be added over different waves and it'll be announced in next month's June Nintendo Direct
The game is underwhelming but it will sell more than all of the Mario Sports games combined. I wish they would retire them to be honest.
@TheBigBlue
I actually agree on you in the case of Mario Strikers. I don’t think it had any less characters than the GameCube or Wii versions did. Now Switch Sports was pretty rough but it’s not necessarily a bad game. I think if it launched as a pack in not as many people would complain about the amount of content. But for a 50$ game having 7 sports is not great. Think about how many came in Wii Sports Resorts for essentially the same price.
To be quite honest, all of the games listed as a choice in this poll would be great additions to the game. At this point though, I think I would rather take a remastered version of Wii Sports Resort. It has been a hot minute since I have played that title.
Fun needs to be added to the next update
Baseball was my favorite in the original, so I voted that.
i only have 40 hours gameplay on it . still waiting the next add on
More Sport PLEASE
Hard to believe this has already been out a year. It still seems like it isn’t complete either. Would be nice if they add more sports.
They should add cornhole. And that beanbag target game, as well
I dunno, I never played it.
@MikeJones,
Without a doubt, there are quite a few Nintendo haters who populate these and many other gaming forums, all consoles have their fan base as it were. and it can be fun for them to cause outrage in the comment sections, the difficulty is always sorting the people who have their own genuine concerns, from those who are just out to cause friction.
Hmm let me see. It’s obviously a baseball field so I’m going with baseball.
While I think that Nintendo is unfortunately done with this game it would be great if they added more sports, starting with Baseball (my personal pick) and Boxing to have at least all the sports from Wii Sports!
@TheBigBlue This, while I also wish Nintendo supported this and other games much further and it's absolutely fair complaining about that practice calling them “cash grabs” is excessive (even more so in this one's case since its MSRP is $39.99), if only actual cash grabs were as good as this!
I wanted to say Archery, but there’s more flexibility to Frisbee. Disc golf, Ultimate, maybe even a cheeky little tribute to Windjammers…?
I picked baseball because honestly yeah it really does look like a baseball diamond.
I didn't vote. This is stupid. The box says 7 games, we got 7 games. People expecting anything more are just setting themselves up for disappointment. It was a $40 game, I don't understand why people expect so much. When people buy Forza or God of War or Zelda are they expecting there to be more games on the cart? I guess Yakuza and Shenmue have a lot of games, but a year later do people still expect more games to be added? Did they get this whining for the Genesis collections? It's just so weird. Like this is the only game ever released where people expect more than what's on the box, more than what was claimed to be sold. Or at least I can think of no other game where this is such an issue. If you don't like what's there, you could just not buy it and play something else instead.
@Nintendo_Thumb Yes, so many games receive more content...including Forza. Every week I receive Steam alert that some Steam games i have are receiving more content. Usually for free or cheap DLC. Thats the usual. The most recent was Vampire Survivors (for $0,42 here). Maybe you only play Nintendo and Sony games.
Pummel Party, the "Steam Mario Party"...has New free boards and minigames EVERY year (for free). And now people can create content and share in this game. Some improovements over the original game:
And Nintendo does not have New content for Mario Party....
Conclusion:
I have 10 hours playing Maio Party Superstars.
I have 56 hours playing Pummel Party.
Yes...Nintendo Switch Sports needs more content tô deserve $39.
Pummel Party is $5 on sale here. And this game is better than Mario Party Superstars $60. And its getting better each New year. The minigames are great. Nintendo is $$lazy$$...Nintendo put the money on marketing than the fanboys.
So what? They never said they were releasing more content to the game. They've never released more content for a Wii Sports game before (aside from Golf which they say is coming soon right on the box), this isn't the norm, people are just being entitled expecting more than what was promised. They never said here's 7 games, more on the way. If you don't like Tennis, Bowling, etc. don't buy the game. Vampire Survivors didn't need more content all of the time, people weren't complaining on launch day that there's wasn't enough there, a year after launch people weren't expecting more content without the dev specifically saying there's more DLC we're working on. If you want to buy a sequel with baseball (so boring), basketball, frisbee dog, etc buy that game if it releases. Expecting more content for a game that nobody said there would be more to, is again, setting yourself up for disappointment. People just use it as an excuse to hate on the game, as if what's there is anything but great. Like it's terrible, and we'll wait to buy it until it's complete, well if it's not good enough now, why do you think it will be so much better later. These 7 games are the ones that made it through, that weren't cut, that playtested good. We don't need games that even badminton was preferred over. Adding Tetherball or whatever isn't going to make the online 4v4 Soccer matches any better.
It is legitimate for people to question the content of this and other Nintendo sports games.
Nintendo, over the years, has been incorporating more content into its games.
However, in this generation, especially sports games, came with much less content.
When people have a perception of low value in relation to the purchased product, they tend to complain (rightly so). Vampire Survivors has too many content for its price tag. That’s the gamer perception. Nintendo Switch Sports not.
Most people who have bought a Switch, have other video games as well, play them on Steam as well. Nintendo is not the only gamer culture for most people.
I dare say that Nintendo's extremely loyal audience is slightly smaller than the audience that bought the Wii U (and would buy any Nintendo video game with their eyes closed). It's just a guess, of course.
All other gamers, especially in this generation, are used to talking to game developers on Discord, and getting into discussions for game improvement. And the vast majority of companies respond to their audience and improve their games over time.
Gamers who ask for DLC for Nintendo Switch Sports are already used to this dynamic of game producers, of improving their products over time, and embedding more after-sales content.
Every Nintendo release, Nintendo uses aggressive marketing gimmicks, which include posts on social networks (digital marketing), specialized press and direct marketing. Euphoria is created among players (sometimes artificially, just to get impulse sales), and euphoria generates expectations.
So the game sells, however, when playing, the player thinks that the content offered does not match his expectations, many of which are generated by the euphoria of websites like this one.
One of the most plausible solutions is to put more content via DLC. We are all used to this from other companies.
Nintendo is losing contact with its public and this communication is becoming more and more artificial. Of course, the company sells well, as it invests a lot in marketing. With Pokemon, for example, news came out and the marketing budget exceeded the budget to create the game.
Anyway, Nintendo will probably not release a DLC for this game, and players have the right to be frustrated with this distancing from Nintendo, unlike other companies.
Asking for more content, since the perception of value for the price invested is low, asking for DLC in a discussion forum is legitimate and should not be questioned. Other companies makes more for you than Nintendo.
I have Nintendo Switch Sports. I played only 5 hours. I think this game begs for more content. It has fewer options and game modes (within each sport) than the last game in the series. The formula runs out very quickly. If this game were from another company, this game would certainly have more after-sales content. But…Nintendo….lives in their own bubble. This is not a reason to be proud. The company makes a profit, but so what? And I agree with you, soccer is terrible in this game.
You just said you played it 5 hours, how would you know how good or bad soccer is? That's like 45 minutes per game. You wouldn't even know how to play the games at that point, that's not enough time to even figure out if you prefer kicking or swinging your arms. You're not even going to be ranked at that point. Why in the world did you spend money on a game you had no intention of playing? It says 7 games there, did you not read the box? Or do you just like buying whatever because money is just so useless for you that you buy games you don't even plan to play? And then you're so invested in the topic, you come here to complain about a game you don't play. When you bought it what exactly were you expecting? Are you going to try to act like Tennis and Bowling are anything but as good as they've always been? Sorry, I just don't understand your logic at all. If I didn't like a game, I wouldn't have bought it, and sure wouldn't go on a rant about a game I don't like endlessly. You don't see me in the Call of Duty (a game I have no interest in) forums complaining about Call of Duty. Isn't that a tremendous waste of time?
[edit: 190 hours here]
@Nintendo_Thumb I used to love Wii Sports Resort. Here It shows 5 hours on my Switch. It may be longer than that, but it doesn't matter. I've seen everything the game has to offer. I played online these hours, several sports and the gameplay is obvious and simple. There isn't much to learn. It's super easy and limited. Kinect Sports has more depth than Nintendo Switch Sports. As soon as my NSO ran out... I played it once or twice with my wife's friends' kids and never again. I buy about $6000 worth of games a year. mostly for Steam, which is my main gaming system. I usually make little mistakes in the games I buy. For Switch, I only got it wrong with Nintendo Sports and MotoGP2018. On Steam I only messed up with Nights into Dreams and Race Arcade. Can't get them all right. At least the day kids come to visit my house... I play Nintendo Switch Sports for them. I still have 7 free days of NSO (i ve never used it). Want to play Nintendo Switch Sports with me online? I feel Wii sports resort much better and more complete than this game...but we can try to play it online...if you want...the game has not much content...but what it has is so-so near Wii sports resort. My wii sports resort memories is why i bought this game for switch. And..7 games should be enough..but not..cause you dont have much content inside each game. Probably you will win when you play with me (190 hours...)
@Rykdrew Yeah probably, you've barely scratched the surface. I played 190 hours of it because shockingly it has over 190 hours worth of content. You played it for a few hours expecting it to be something else and then gave up before getting anywhere. You've got $6000 worth of games per year, that's $500 for games per month, that's wild, no wonder you don't play the games you buy, the fomo must be insane. But what I don't get is you can easily spend $500 per month on games, but the $20 a year for Switch online is too much for you and you complain about a $40 game being too expensive, despite it containing hundreds of hours worth of content. Do you usually buy online games with the sole purpose to play them offline? And then, here you are talking about a game you don't like when you've got more games to play than anyone, that should give you more fomo than playing a game you paid for.
The game is not called Wii Sports Resort Remastered, they never mentioned it was a follow up game to that spinoff, it doesn't even take place on Wuhu Island (as in the Resort). None of the games in Resort were online, there no titles to earn, emojis to earn, clothes to earn, Sharks, Astronauts, etc. No competition except for the a.i., and the a.i. wasn't that good. Were you playing Soccer against the CPU? That's an 8 player game, you're supposed to be relying on team work and reading your opponents, without the internet you're missing the whole point of the game.
With $500 per month, you get 8 AAA games per month (that's 2 AAAs per week), you're just spending too much money, you can't even play that many games it's a complete waste. If you only have time to buy and not play, that's not the games fault, it's your fault for wasting money when you clearly don't have time to devote to a single game.
The game is easy to play, it's not easy to win. You likely don't know any strategies, have no practice, know no tricks. Just being able to play something doesn't mean you know anything about how deep the gameplay gets. I play for a challenge, I'm A rank on Tennis, Bowling, Soccer, and Volleyball, you're most likely not even ranked yet and still in the random matchmaking. I feel like this will be rather one-sided but who knows, maybe I'm being overconfident. If you're up for a game my code is in my profile.
@Nintendo_Thumb Hello. Honestly, I'm enjoying this conversation, even though we have very different thoughts.
I buy a lot of games, accessories and consoles. I collect. I have about 40 video games and many accessories. It's part of the hobby. And yes, I can't play all the games for so many hours. Only favorites is that I have 1000+ hours like Dirt Rally, Gears 5, Tekken 7 and Street Fighter.
Adding all this up is something like $6000/yr. This year, a good part of this amount was used to complete two cockpits with Fanatec accessories, one for my PC gamer and one for my wife's PC gamer. But I didn't say that to brag. It's just a gamer-to-gamer chat. I've been at this for over 40 years.
About Nintendo Switch Sports, I did know what to expect. However, buying on day-1, I imagined that, at least within each sport, there would be more variation. At wii sports resort, for example, there were more bowling options, such as the 100-pin challenge. Even Kinect Sports had more variation and it was also possible to play online.
Nintendo, in its sports games, included the online, but left the games with little content. Does not deserve their prices. Can't deny it.
I like value for money. I was on NSO for 1 year and hardly used it. I don't know anyone who has the Switch, except for my sister, who lives in another country and hardly ever plays.
Playing with unknown people online on Switch is not practical. On Steam it's very quick and simple. On Switch, you have to look for a discord, schedule an appointment..exchange codes…and hope that the person be online the same time that you (but you can not see online people waiting for invites, only playing people on Switch)…..usually people have different nicknames on Discord and Switch…..for me it's impractical. I like the simple thing, because I have many options available for me to play. I don't like to be kept waiting.
I don't like playing old games, I never played any SNES and NES games on my NSO subscription. They don't amuse me anymore, I played a lot when I was a teenager. I have almost all these games on their original consoles. These games no longer mean anything to me. The quality of online multiplayer and connection leaves a lot to be desired on Switch compared to Steam. ’ So I didn’t, and I probably won’t.
I must have about 40 games, backlog, between Steam and Switch right now.
If I like a game a lot, I dedicate myself to it a lot. This usually happens with sports, card games, shmups, racing and fighting games.
Unfortunately, I didn't see a lot of content to devote to Mario's sports games. They didn't entertain me much, and since I don't know anyone who likes those games, I have no one to play with. So these games are currently dead to me.
You are the first one I know with Nintendo Switch Sports. I'm not ranked, obviously. And it doesn't matter if I lose all the games, who knows, maybe this doesn't change my view of the game and I start to think that it was worth $39 in it...for the amount of content it offers? In soccer I don't need the strap to use my legs, because I use the just dance strap, which is the same.
Let's play... the point of being here, after all, is to play. My nickname is Deh. I'm adding you.
***I have 4 hours playing Nintendo Switch Sports. I haven't booted the game in a long time. I just saw now.
I'm always up for some Switch Sports, though I'm not interested in convincing anyone, I just like having an excuse to play. Sounds like you haven't actually played it enough to know about Bowling. Resort had 100 pin bowling, Switch Sports has Novice, Medium, and Expert Special bowling in addition to the traditional taking turns, or simultaneous bowling which is also new and makes it much better, faster not boring games waiting for your opponent. You'll get the Beginner Special games if you play a few matches, and then when you get good, they'll give you Intermediate lanes, and if you're really good you can play on Advanced.
As for the random matchmaking not being practical, it's perfectly practical for me. I don't care for voice chat or whatever, so none of that discord stuff bothers me at all. When the game starts it takes like 2 seconds to get into a game looking for random players, maybe a minute to find players and that's it, none of that complicated stuff you said, you just set the controller down and wait for players to join. The game has tons of unlockable emojis, of which you can use 4 per game with L or R + a,b,x or y, and everyone has different ones (you may not have earned any, unless it starts you off with some default ones, I forget now), so it keeps things interesting; people can communicate they just have to be a little creative.
@Nintendo_Thumb When I wrote about difficulties online on the Nintendo Switch, it wasn't specifically about the Nintendo Switch Sport game. Surprisingly, the top 4 games for meeting people online are: Just Dance, Mario Kart 8, Nintendo Switch Sport, Rocket League. They work like a rhodisium. These, among the ones I played, stood out.
But other games are hard to play with people on my friends list (whom I don't know personally). You have to make an appointment... go to Discord... remember the person's nickname on the Switch... hope the person is online (its impossible to know if people are online on the Switch, only if they're playing a game. Hardly anyone who's already is playing, will exit the game to play another game with you).
Difficulties like this do not exist on other consoles or on Steam. On Steam, other players don't even need to own the game or a gaming pc to play with you. I take a game that only I have, I see the list of people who are waiting for invitations to play, I send them a link to my game and they can play with me from a simple pc, steam deck, a tablet/ipad, a smartphone or even mirrored on the TV. Just have a bluetooth controller like the xbox. They don't even need to install. Just click on the link and you're already playing with me, with or without voice chat. (I don't like voice chat, I prefer typing).
How is it possible to chat with these people, if the person wants to play, but can't at that moment, the person can ask me if I can wait, 5...10 minutes to get ready to play with me. Communication is key.
I wanted to ask you a question. I see you have the Arms game. Do you think it's worth $60? I see you've only played it for 15 hours. Is the game worth it? I played the demo, I liked it, but I didn't think it was worth $60, so I didn't buy it.
Yeah I guess I'm not a very social gamer, I just play with randos generally so never noticed the issue.
But as for ARMS, I love it, I think it's great and was surprised I only played 15 hours but well worth it in my opinion. However, I got it at launch and the game was a lot more active then, and now it's a lot harder to get into random matchmaking so maybe wait for a sale. The single player is fun if you're into fighting games and like getting a little exercise (there's standard controller mode but I never used it), but it's really missing a lot when you don't have human opponents to psyche out and trick and try to mind read. Though if you never played it like that, maybe you wouldn't miss it. Then again, if you have people to play with offline, the split-screen multiplayer is pretty fun, and there's also tons of badges to collect, story pages and art to unlock, and a lot of weird modes and lots of difficulty options and arms to collect, muscles to build, and calories to burn, so it's still a fun game as is.
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