After revealing Basketball would be coming to Nintendo Switch Sports recently, Nintendo has now officially released this free court sport update.
As already revealed, it comes with a trio of different game modes including two-on-two matches, a solo three-point contest, and a 'Five Streak Battle'. Included with this is local and online multiplayer support as well.
Here's the full rundown, courtesy of Nintendo's support page. In addition to Basketball, "several issues have been fixed" to improve the overall gameplay experience:
Latest update: Ver. 1.5.0 (Released July 9, 2024)
Basketball
- Basketball has been added. It can be enjoyed in all modes: Play Globally, Play Locally, and Play with Friends.
Overall
- Several issues have been fixed to improve the gameplay experience.
As you can see above, Nintendo has also uploaded a new overview trailer featuring both Basketball and Golf. The free update for Golf was added to Switch Sports in 2022.
Will you be returning to this game to try out Basketball? Let us know in the comments.
[source en-americas-support.nintendo.com]
Comments 13
It's honestly super fun. Already played some 2v2 matches online teamed up with my brother. Probably the new best sport in the game IMHO.
Excited to try this tonight. Hopefully it compares favourably to the clever basketball mini game in ARMS (which is just great IMO).
We still jump on the Switch Sports Golf mode from time to time, that was a great addition too!
Still no Boxing. 😕
It’s fun. This whole game is fun. The haters just hate. Glad to have basketball in this version. 3 point shootout is sublime.
Due to the motion requirement it's not the game for me (play almost only handheld). But cool for the people that like it.
man would it kill Nintendo to say what those "several issues" are? what's the point of not saying what are these issue that were fixed?
Nice, should consider adding this game to the ones I play in the morning to exercise at some point and even more so now that Basketball has come!
@_Figo_ Could be for a different reason, but it's certainly food for thought that when you list the issues fixed like for TTYD in the other article that came out today some people start complaining about games being unfinished nowadays unlike in the past, the original looking better because of it and so on...
@Anti-Matter "Please buy Arms"
Wii Ballin’ is finally real… two generations later.
Played it with my dad last night. Both of us really loved the Wii sports resort basketball and we both thought this was pretty fun. The shooting is a bit different, the dunking is weird and stealing the ball is way too easy, but besides that it was pretty good
@Yousef-
Basketball was included in both Wii Sports Resort and Wii Sports Club.
@Kehkou - Basketball was not in Club. Club only had the original 5 (Tennis, Golf, Baseball, Boxing, Bowling) w/largely worse controls and terrible online.
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