The Short, Pathetic Life of Nintendo Switch Sports

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Ай бұрын

Just in time for Switch Sport's 2nd birthday, this is the step by step story of how Nintendo fumbled what could have been the Switch's greatest title. RIP 2022 - 2023

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@nessexceptless Ай бұрын

I like how when Switch Sports was announced on that direct, i was so unbelievebly happy until the characters popped on screen and i processed the idea for longer than a second.

@HauntakuTV Ай бұрын

The sportsmates aren't bad, but the whole idea of miis is that they are as simple as possible to make players feel as close to the characters as possible.

@BomberDuck Ай бұрын

This is basically everyone's reaction

@nintendowolf Ай бұрын

People overhate sportsmates. All the costumes and accessories you can put on them is cool, and you can still be your mii anyway. The problem is the severe lack of contact compared to other games. I still play it to this day because playing online competitively is fun on Golf and Bowling. Still a very much active community, but it could have been so much more. I thought with updates they would improve the game, but they just gave up on it.

@rinnnnnnnnnnrin Ай бұрын

@@nintendowolfyeah but the shit is locked behind fomo if you actually wanna unlock stuff for your character

@444knuffelmac Ай бұрын

@@nintendowolf It just seems different, i don't remember having an wii (i think i had one like a bit ago, but don't use it/don't know where it is) so i don't have the feeling of nostalgia of it, but the wii's look more customisable, and are just funnier to look at, i don't want to get humilated by myself of how terrible i play, but if a funny man does it i don't mind that, wii's just seem nicer, the humannesss that they were going for was to high, and naturally the cancelation made it even less customisable, it just does not feel well, they shouldn't change everything, they should do more like disney in that way, or they should completely make new games that feel grand enough, may have sports, but should be far enough away from the wii sports so the image of wii sports isn't going to impact it, or just make wii sports, mii's and everything, and even better, they went with the middle aproach, going for the to close to wii sports, to little, to low amount of everything, and once the servers are down, switch sports is down, wii sports isn't ganne get fully wipped if their servers are ganne get deactivates / are deactivated, they also shouldn't have gone for the scummy mobile game tactic / f2p game tactic, fortnite does it good, as they are f2p, and if your an high enough rank you get rewarded, always new things, events, and everything, this was a p2p game, what shouldn't have paid battlepasses imo, and there are 2 rewards max per week, like said, if it was 1 reward per x level for the people just having the game, and 1 reward per 1 level for the ones with online as well, i would think it would still be even more active then now, they just chose the wrong choices in manyt departments, if you disagree, i would like to know at what point it is, and your explanation for disagreeing, to know if i would change my statement, thank you for reading my small rant, and hope you have an great day

@Rihcterwilker Ай бұрын

Nintendo is losing it's "embracing" identity. Where the wii had comforting menu music and miis, the switch is silent, cold, sterile.

@sonicsillies Ай бұрын

yesss! i saw a video once that compared the eshops of the other consoles compared to the switch. the wii u had music, bright colors, and was embracing, as you said. and then the switch...it's quiet, laggy, consists of only orange and white, and just feels boring. its so sad

@wockio205 Ай бұрын

Who cares? You buy it to play games, and Switch has more and better games than any previous Nintendo console

@xerobeat9142 Ай бұрын

you are SOY if you think this matters at all

@CottonBunn Ай бұрын

@@wockio205 we care because we enjoyed it in the past, and its just been getting worse. go away, fanboy.

@wockio205 Ай бұрын

@@CottonBunn I enjoyed it too but its really not a big deal

@crumple_bumton8933 Ай бұрын

They focused so much on online play that they forgot about the sports themselves, the other modes for the sports and the cpus that made the sports more lively. It’s honestly a shame

@dpv007 Ай бұрын

And Nintendo's online friggin' sucks at the best of times, so all those compromises were for nothing. 😡

@dpv007 Ай бұрын

And Nintendo's online friggin' sucks at the best of times, so all those compromises were for nothing. 😡

@ravkhar927 Ай бұрын

@@dpv007um, i play this game very often n have no issues online, what are you talking about?

@nintendowolf Ай бұрын

@@ravkhar927 Very true.

@Chineseisntalanguageapparently Ай бұрын

They focused so much on online play that they forgot some people (everyone) don’t want to play this game for the online, but for the fun of it, and the online should’ve been the only thing they gave it as dlc, and it should’ve had it by the end of the release month, so it actually got to be a good game with success

@NintendoHero Ай бұрын

"Ah yes, the brutal consequences of optimism" is my new go to line for whenever Nintendo pulls a Nintendo. This game really just feels like a bad dream. It consumed my life for a few months and then I just moved on and have been happier ever since. I truly hope the words "live service" and "Wii Sports" never get near each other again

@NickMario1 Ай бұрын

Definitely the biggest monkey paw ever 😅

@anonymouslucario285 Ай бұрын

You're acting like this game was traumatic for you

@awsxedc3 Ай бұрын

@@anonymouslucario285 a bit of a dramatic read, but it stems from realizing Wii Sports as a brand ended with this game. Switch Sports is almost guaranteed to be forgotten, and Miis playing sports is too tainted of a property to ever return. It is truly the end of their era.

@gengarguy8801 Ай бұрын

Switch Sports is like an abusive lover that extorts you into thinking they'll improve, only to consistently remain shitty for your entire duration with them.

@NickMario1 Ай бұрын

Very specific

@stale_cheeto Ай бұрын

@@NickMario1But it's true

@nobodyinparticular9640 Ай бұрын

Replace "switch sports" with "Nintendo" and you've got that right

@Blaxi131 29 күн бұрын

@@NickMario1yet oddly common

@TMS-Oddbot 8 күн бұрын

@@nobodyinparticular9640 Actually, I gotta say Switch in general is still an improvement from the Wii U…in some ways. And in other ways it’s cheap as heck in comparison

@DeterminedTorres Ай бұрын

I knew Switch Sports was a shell of what Wii Sports was by the lack of the ability of throwing the bowling ball backwards to make the Miis jump.

@functionatthejunction 6 күн бұрын

You might as well be able to throw it backwards for as well as the motion controls work. And I use the term work very generously.

@Vsirugo13 Ай бұрын

It’s actually so frustrating that this game sold over 10 million units. This is the kinda game that ruins Nintendo’s reputation for casual audiences and I hope consumers actually think before buying games in the future. I can only hope Nintendo’s reaction to this isn’t to release more slop.

@ZaiKuderz Ай бұрын

As much as I hate it too you just know Nintendo doesn't care either way

@kaiahnung4958 Ай бұрын

Yeah, I agee. But I think if it sold bad we would never see a new Wii Sports Title again…? The game is also this bad because they restarted development after a long time and had to get finished. So maybe the next will be better? I hope so.

@Vsirugo13 Ай бұрын

@@kaiahnung4958 The series definitely deserves another Resort. I do think if anything the player decline will tell Nintendo that something went wrong and I can’t imagine sports will be left to just Mario.

@therealjaystone2344 Ай бұрын

Casuals never cared for little stuff that shouldn’t be a bother. Just take it and play it because in the end of the day it’s all about fun.

@user-lr7cc8iu3m Ай бұрын

consumers don't really care about about whatever nonsense gamers are interested in. they're not gonna be like "ohhh miis are gone this is so heckin soulless!!" they just see a game called switch sports and buy it because it looks fun. in all honesty the "wii" series fell off after wii because, well. there isn't a wii anymore.

@HenrikoMagnifico Ай бұрын

The biggest mistake was not including WuHu Island

@richardwilliams4302 Ай бұрын

I've noticed it is a habit for nintendo to allude to free updates and then never deliver. For example: when odyssey came out, everyone thought that their would be a Sunshine DLC because they put it on the loading screen map. There was never a Sunshine DLC. And even more maliciously: When Mario Maker 2 came out, they'd put the only new level style (3D World) under a seperate category titled "Extra Game Styles" with an empty slot for potential future styles. There was never a new style. It sucks that very passionate devs of games like Shovel Knight and No Man's Sky, create so much goodwill behind free updates and then Nintendo completely takes advantage of it for profits.

@luckyfini7320 Ай бұрын

Nothing is really saying that these things weren't planned at the point the games first released, though. Didn't they say that Bowser's Fury was a repurposed Odyssey DLC?

@paperluigi6132 Ай бұрын

The former was literally just an Easter egg that they had to unfortunately remove when speculation became too rampant.

@lukea9854 Ай бұрын

I agree with your point but these are I think the two worst examples you could have possibly given and betray your skewed sense of optimism

@richardwilliams4302 Ай бұрын

@@paperluigi6132 you right, oddysey was not fantastic evidence.

@richardwilliams4302 Ай бұрын

@@lukea9854 ok maybe the odyssey one was not a great point. But do you think that the MM2 menu reading: "Extra Game Styles" with an "s" was not misleading? considering there was only one new theme added? This was a blatant lie to fans. And I don't care how much I enjoy their games (even MM2) I'm not gonna pretend like that was honest and blame my own optimisim. But what examples would you give since you agree?

@andreworders7305 Ай бұрын

The play test was completely public yet they tried to make it confidential? Did they expect that to work?

@lordmarshmal_0643 Ай бұрын

"Unrealistic nostalgic standards" See here's the problem with that sentiment: They already have the Mii assets Even without Miitopia bumping up the customizability to an absurd degree, the Miis work well enough in general to this day (I wanna shut the Mario Kart Miis up so badly though) that they'd be fine as the main avatars here as well I don't necessarily mind the sportsmates in isolation, but it feels like a case where the focus of initial development was sorely misplaced and wasted as a result, and that's not even taking into consideration the fact that Badminton almost definitely got in to save dev hours

@RedFriction 3 күн бұрын

Badminton is diffrent to tennis

@therealjaystone2344 Ай бұрын

Mario Strikers: Battle League is also another title that had a short life and remained an incompleted game

@NitwitsWorld Ай бұрын

And after a free update with Princess Daisy added to the game it’s not worth it

@ramenpix Ай бұрын

@@NitwitsWorld The fact that Daisy wasn't even there at launch shows how little they cared. Mario Kart 7 may have been missing Waluigi, another vital Mario character, but at least it was finished.

@NitwitsWorld Ай бұрын

@@ramenpix yup Nintendo screwed up during the pandemic I know we shouldn’t blame it on them or the pandemic but it was so weird of them to release unfinished games during the events of 2019 to 2022

@ramenpix Ай бұрын

@@NitwitsWorld It all kinda started with Mario Tennis Aces and was downhill from there, with all of the future Mario Sports games being lackluster. I really hope the next Mario Kart doesn't go down this path.

@therealjaystone2344 Ай бұрын

@@ramenpix I doubt Mario kart is getting that kind of treatment because it’s one of their big mainline IP to take it’s time for, unlike smaller IPs

@Chad_Wick Ай бұрын

switch sports (miis) look like stretched out animal crossing characters.

@EthanMickanen Ай бұрын

This game is actually $60, not 40. You have to pay 40 for the game, and then pay 20 dollars for the Nintendo online just so you can play the game

@OceanPlays08 Ай бұрын

Bruh

@RonRon0110 Ай бұрын

The game is 40 dollars.

@DannyMeasho999 Ай бұрын

you act like the ONLY fun of this game is online. you should play soccer with friends (and the pen mode if you have the leg strap). its pretty fun even with CPUs. also tennis powerhouse with friends is hard!

@EthanMickanen Ай бұрын

@@DannyMeasho999 I don’t really gaf about the game as a whole

@EthanMickanen 29 күн бұрын

@@RonRon0110 ok

@dullsunrise8820 Ай бұрын

Me and my bro grew up with a Wii (and thus Wii Sports) so when Switch Sports was announced he was hyped. He got it, played it for 30 minutes, then never touched it again. I think that says a lot when a pretty hype game doesn’t get someone to play it for at least an hour once it launches.

@xRaiofSunshine Ай бұрын

Meanwhile I’d LOVE to go back to sports resort if I had the hardware.

@PassivPsychosen Ай бұрын

@@xRaiofSunshine you can play it on pc dolphin emulator or even on the most phones these days with dolphin emulator if you have a bad pc or a good phone give it a try

@NickMario1 Ай бұрын

Nice danganronpa pfp

@justsplat Ай бұрын

I want a fucking refund I did the same thing (didnt grow up with a wii, had a wii u tho 💀) I played for like 2 days though havent touched the game in multiple months

@NickMario1 Ай бұрын

@@justsplat how was the WiiU?

@wav9686 Ай бұрын

It's weird how the items are just stock and brandless. Like imagine how cool it would be to unlock a Mario hoodie or a Kirby jumpsuit? EDIT: I forgot to mention Super Mario Maker 2 did this right with its collectibles, so I'm not sure why this was missed.

@0tterhead Ай бұрын

Oh man a kirby volleyball would actually be kinda sick

@LocalTorchwoodIntern Ай бұрын

Honestly it would've been so cool if they did brand specific items like the Mario and Sonic games or had an option to purchase certain sets (or missing items) using points collected from playing sports. Honestly those two wou;d've gotten me interested in getting the game over having to play it in a week to get items.

@AwesomeKev Ай бұрын

KIRBY KIRBY KIRBY KIRBY KIRBY

@internetguy7319 Ай бұрын

Crossovers are boring and mid

@carvman217 Ай бұрын

@@internetguy7319nice bait lmao

@plows2940 Ай бұрын

Switch Sports feels like another of the boneheaded decisions that was primarily made to push their garbage online subscription service with everything else about it being an afterthought. It honestly feels like almost all of Nintendo’s terrible decisions ever since the Switch launched have been in some way related to Nintendo Switch Online. Everything from requiring a subscription to play online in the first place to cloud saves being the only way to back up save data to voice chat only being supported via the mobile app to the closure of 3DS/Wii U eShops and Online services which was likely done in favour of making NSO the only official way to play any Nintendo games online or access legacy titles as it meant the only non-subscription alternatives were eliminated.

@lpfan4491 Ай бұрын

It is obscene how much better the Switch experience would have been if they like...cut the online access out of the NSO paywall entirely(barely anyone gets NSO for the online, lmao), aswell as having the permanent VC sales alongside it. It would improve the customer experience 10-fold, deincentivise them to make duds to shill online subs, aswell as get them more money overall. It's legit poor business for everyone including big N, lmao.

@paperluigi6132 Ай бұрын

3DS and especially WiiU was because numbers had reached the lows that would’ve made further server maintenance not worth it. Why keep the servers up for like the thousands of people still there when the MILLIONS of others have already left? Like it or not, it’s business at the end of the day, and Nintendo knew that it was time to pull the plug.

@Porcupine2009 Ай бұрын

@@paperluigi6132Luckily we still have pretendo though

@jaxsterminator8634 Ай бұрын

NSO IS PERFECT. SWITCH SPORTS IS PERFECT.

@nobodyinparticular9640 Ай бұрын

@@jaxsterminator8634kindly hold your breath indefinitely

@Pheicou Ай бұрын

A simple Wii Sports + Wii Sports Resort bundle would've sold more than this.

@paperluigi6132 Ай бұрын

13 million sold says otherwise. And remember most Wii Sports sales come from the fact that it came bundled with the Wii.

@lpfan4491 Ай бұрын

@@paperluigi6132It really does not. There is absolutely negative shot that the game sold those 13 milion on its own merits. It got 100% boosted by technically being part of the Wii Sports-series.(and the fact that there was a boundle, which had its own Wii Sports-effect on the gamesales)

@RayoMcQueen95990 Ай бұрын

@@paperluigi6132that’s because casuals just buy everything that has the switch logo on it, not because the game is good

@fgfhjfhjfbhfghf5771 Ай бұрын

Literally the only time I've ever felt excited over this game was the Star Fox asset names left over in the files

@sahaprocks7751 Ай бұрын

Wait really? Ok yeah that is the most exciting thing about this game

@NickMario1 Ай бұрын

Oh yeah I forgot about that

@lpfan4491 Ай бұрын

The Mii2.0s will never not be funny in a cursed way. I can remember when people in the german community made fun of them for having "zoomer haircuts". (They only stopped because the game lost all relevance after 2 months.)

@barelyhere7200 Ай бұрын

People give games like hey pikmin and federation force a lot of shit which is funny because they’re not even bad games. Games like Mario strikers battle league and Nintendo switch sports deserve the hate way more

@OriginalGameteer Ай бұрын

As someone who's played through the entirety of Hey!, this is very true Hey wasn't... great imo, but I definitely have more positives to say compared to Battle League and Sports

@quangamershyguyyz7166 Ай бұрын

Hey Pikmin and Federation Force are fine enough games that came out at a bad time. They at least had some charm in them. Switch Sports and Battle League just proves that Nintendo pretty much stopped caring about their quality and people will still buy their games anyway.

@GribbleGob Ай бұрын

Metroid Federation Force is legit a clunky awkward mess that treats Samus like a useless sack of potatos lmao

@barelyhere7200 Ай бұрын

@@GribbleGob i’ve played Federation force and that is not true at all💀

@GribbleGob Ай бұрын

@@barelyhere7200 you have shit taste then lol

@lupeylycan Ай бұрын

honestly the character customization was pretty cute, it just was like............ not at all what anyone asking for a new wii sports wanted in the first place. its like if nintendogs was rebooted to look like littlest pet shop like, i guess thats a cute dog, but its also not what i wanted from this particular product

@PKLuver944 Ай бұрын

This made me laugh, yet it's also very true

@Kyarchuu_draws Ай бұрын

Honestly it would have been really fun if it was with the original miis as well as if it wasn't locked to online players. I loved being able to customize my miis in Tomadachi life so I can imagine how fun it would be to be able to unlock outfits by playing sports

@rustyshackleford234 Ай бұрын

If the next console doesn’t include Miis and amiibo functionality, I’m gonna be sad 😭 I just miss when Nintendo had soul.

@NickMario1 Ай бұрын

Even if it does they probably won’t use them much still

@Level_Eleven Ай бұрын

“Soccer is just running towards the ball the whole time” That’s basically every sport

@modables Ай бұрын

2 comments is crazy you really got his dick in your mouth

@sander303 Ай бұрын

The soundtrack to Switch Sports makes you feel like you're in purgatory

@juliannocartagena2007 Ай бұрын

How?

@sander303 Ай бұрын

@@juliannocartagena2007 Listen to it for an hour while nothing happens in the bowling game

@mps64 Ай бұрын

Knew the game was gonna flop when one of the dev interviews had one of the devs state that they couldn't recapture the charm of the original games I actually hate the switch era man

@lampshade7189 Ай бұрын

That is an insane thing for a dev to public admit 💀, not even Batman would’ve gotten that outta me

@NickMario1 Ай бұрын

How much do you hate it? I wanna hear it all lol

@lulin2546 Ай бұрын

@@NickMario1 nick i can see u own switch sports how do u like it!

@Cute___E Ай бұрын

I'd say that the Switch era overall has been pretty good, but a lot of the smaller projects like this have been disappointing. Still, things like Odyssey, BotW, TotK, and Smash Ultimate have been absolutely incredible. These last few years have definitely suffered a bit, though

@staringcorgi6475 Ай бұрын

@@Cute___Ethe gamecube era was better though as it was more riveting

@troin3925 Ай бұрын

When I think about it, Wii Sports is probably the best launch title for a video game console ever made. Not only does it show what the Wii is capable of, but people (especially families) still play it to this day.

@andreworders7305 Ай бұрын

Why did they chose to go from like 12 sports to six

@CuteRedPanda64 Ай бұрын

Not to mention the 12 sports they have 2 to 3 different mode each, Switch sports has only one each.

@RayoMcQueen95990 Ай бұрын

Not only that, but Golf, a sport that was there since the original Wii Sports, TOOK A LONG TIME TO BE PUT ON THE SWITCH ONE

@NickMario1 Ай бұрын

@dragonslayer10000 Ай бұрын

@@RayoMcQueen95990 no boxing :(

@AvatarNeo Ай бұрын

The fact that the Wii's pack-in game from 2006 launched with more content than the Switch's "successor" from 2022 is depressing

@Avm371998 Ай бұрын

They could've just ported wii sports and it would've been more successful

@andrescube64 Ай бұрын

Most people believe that switch sports killed the Wii Sports series but if you were there back in 2013. Wii Sports Club killed the series and switch sports made it more apparent that it’s even more dead.

@derpoltergeist8265 Ай бұрын

I agree with this take.

@andrescube64 Ай бұрын

@@derpoltergeist8265thanks!

@ArbitraryOutcome Ай бұрын

We don't talk about Wii Sports Club

@isaiah4820 27 күн бұрын

The series isn’t dead. People still love it. It’s simply been abandoned and replaced by nonsense.

@theotherjared9824 Ай бұрын

If you go into the official financial data, Nintendo Switch Sports has sold more than you would expect. It has a really long tail and has sold at a consistent rate for years, seeing an uptick in late 2023 when all the content released for it. It has likely crossed 13 million copies by now.

@themaskedwander Ай бұрын

Would the numbers of the bundle console count to tho? I technically have 2 copies as I pre ordered it but recently got a console bundle that Switch Sports came free with for €299.99

@theotherjared9824 Ай бұрын

@@themaskedwander It would mainly be physical copies because of the leg strap.

@themaskedwander Ай бұрын

@theotherjared9824 never thought the leg strap made much of a difference since it's only for the one sub sport

@themaskedwander Ай бұрын

@@theotherjared9824 the bundle includes the strap with it

@paperluigi6132 28 күн бұрын

And it has officially crossed 13M as of March. By now, there are officially more people that own Switch Sports than there are people that own a WiiU.

@NathAnarchy45 Ай бұрын

All they had to do was port wii sports resort and original to the switch 💀

@GravityTrash Ай бұрын

I was excited for Switch Sports until I realized that Ring Fit exists and is a game that quite literally takes advantage of all aspects of the joycon in a way that 1-2 Switch and Switch Sports just couldn't.

@somehow_a_wizard Ай бұрын

Thumbnail image has two right hands. Perfect.

@GregCubed Ай бұрын

That blue ball line went egregiously hard

@NeonIceyy Ай бұрын

Honestly, Go Vacation being re-released on the Switch had me way more excited than Switch Sports ever did. I knew immediately by that launch showcase if it would appeal to me or not. And I causelessly decided to just wait, and see how well the game does in a year and, how much gets added. I got my answer very fast. Glad I never jumped in.

@NickMario1 Ай бұрын

LMAO SAME

@AslgamingOffical 27 күн бұрын

Honestly if Nintendo just re-released Wii sports for the switch and maybe added a few new features like online play and being able to rome the island I'd be happy

@heroicgangster9981 Ай бұрын

i love switch sports slander, also i love going savage each time Nintendo tries to ripoff the success of Splatoon

@HauntakuTV Ай бұрын

Splatoon is also finished now. There's no more Splatoon games planned in the future. The devs are done. We weren't even supposed to get a third game, but the devs worked really hard and it paid off. I hope they're doing okay.

@heroicgangster9981 Ай бұрын

@@HauntakuTV the fact that splatoon games get expansion dlcs, story modes, and crossovers really shows the actual soul splatoon got. if more games were like splatoon, i wouldn't be savage. but it's like Nintendo thinks being Splatoon means to just update the game with new content to play around with. i mean it is. but also so much more added to the surface.

@ramenpix Ай бұрын

@@HauntakuTV There is no way Nintendo's just gonna let the Splatoon series end

@koveltskiis8391 Ай бұрын

@@HauntakuTV??? Source?

@RayoMcQueen95990 Ай бұрын

Agreed. Splatoon works because it’s a multiplayer shooter game, and most of the fun parts come from the online, so it makes sense to give that game free updates. But sports games? REALLY!?

@NintendoTransformer Ай бұрын

I was in such denial when I got this game. I thought I had to unlock all the other games (which actually would have been fun) but then after an hour or so I was just like, “This is it…. isn’t it.”

@PikaPikaLOL Ай бұрын

It’s sad because I think the game could’ve easily been great. 2 things brought it down - a lack of games (considering Resort and having to wait for an extra one to be added) and perhaps the even bigger problem, it got caught in the crazy for online multiplayer battle royales when Wii Sports is best when you’re in the same room

@lasercraft32 Ай бұрын

Games like Nintendo Switch Sports are just reminders that Nintendo isn't the same as it used to be. That inner child is dead.

@NickMario1 Ай бұрын

Unrelated but do you like sonic more then mario?

@Daralexen Ай бұрын

This is how I feel with Xbox as well with games like Redfall. It is hard to decide what is worse though.

@Level_Eleven Ай бұрын

“Like having jail time on your resume” I am stealing that

@kylespevak6781 Ай бұрын

I forgot Metroid prime 4 got announced. I feel like that's going to be the swan song of the console like Breath of the Wild for Wii U

@TheChurchOfDeadMetal Ай бұрын

Remember Nintendo’s Switch Sports Playtest Policy? Now we know.

@DarthRaichu Ай бұрын

This game had so much promise. So sad to see how much it disappointed me when I got my hands on it

@mylifeisadumpsterfire5194 Ай бұрын

How did they not add basketball? That was a top tier sport in resort

@lukeskywalker9507 Ай бұрын

Thanks for making a video covering this, because this is my most hated game of all time, and I loathe it with a burning passion.

@utopes Ай бұрын

Good vid dude :) the “out of the park” bit during the golf stall and the godot theme with the voice trailing out were two masterclass editing techniques, well done. I like ur craft, u have a new sub :D

@simaomartins4723 Ай бұрын

When I bought my Switch for Christmas 2022 I considered buying the game because of my love for Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort but I went with Zelda and Pokemon instead best decision of my life

@Fenyxclips Ай бұрын

When I heard Switch Sports was coming, I was worried. Then watched Smii7y (was the first video I saw after release) play it and was not happy with the direction. Borrowed a copy from a family member who owns the game and gave it a spin. Made someone rage quit in tennis which was funny, but it didn't feel the same. Went as far as to getting my Wii out and getting Wii Sports Resort to relive the memories. Even as far as to getting more controllers so my younger siblings can experience the "Golden Age" as I consider it. The confliction was something to see. Both have a Switch (yet never play it) and in the matter of moments, they couldn't decide on whether Switch Sports or Wii Sports Resort was better. The simplicity was just better. Plus the modes...That moment you load up 100 pin bowling and see them all standing there for the first time. Or flying around the island. Or Wii Sports with Baseball or training. There was so much more choice!

@peter7596 Ай бұрын

Harvest moon magical melody music in the background…excellent choice

@shaolinotter Ай бұрын

all I want is an expanded wii sports golf or a solid mario golf. switch mario golf broke my heart

@quangamershyguyyz7166 Ай бұрын

I do not have any hesitation or exaggeration in my mind to honestly say Nintendo Switch Sports is the worst Nintendo game ever made. Sure, the game looks great, the character designs and artstyle looks nice, everything plays well, there’s no major bugs or glitches and the gameplay is solid overall. But, when it comes to how much it left an impact, the game is for sure, one of Nintendo’s laziest, most soulless, factory produced, corporate waste they ever put out. Everything about it screams lack of effort or care to put the slightest bit of actual love in it. It’s a little insulting that they market this junk as the sequel to Wii Sports Resort when that game was peak charm and fun game design, made 12 years before.

@hullstar242 Ай бұрын

Super emotional and exaggerated opinion lmao it’s a fun sports game. It wasn’t trying to save your marriage or stop climate change.

@NickMario1 Ай бұрын

There are far worse games out there lol, like I don’t like switch sports either but saying all of that is kinda reminding me of the old demeech thumbnail

@Loner098 Ай бұрын

While I don't agree that Nintendo Switch Sports is the worst Nintendo game ever made, because there are FAR worse Nintendo games out there (like Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Paper Mario: Color Splash, Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival, Chibi-Robo: Zip-Lash), I still agree that it is just not a good game.

@quangamershyguyyz7166 Ай бұрын

@@Loner098 Paper Mario Color Splash is pretty good and at least Zip Lash and Amiibo Festival are fun to make fun of how terrible they are.

@juliannocartagena2007 Ай бұрын

@@NickMario1I respect your opinion but I don’t wanna be reminded of that Demeech video.

@superrob1500 29 күн бұрын

I only really ever played Tennis and Bowling on this game and the fact that Online bowling doesn't let you choose if you want normal or obstacle bowling (which I hate) was enough for me to give up. No Baseball or Boxing on a console with motion controls, criminal. This video did give me a new perspective, I had never thought how useless the game is in offline mode, I always played online and never gave it a second thought.

@marinamym3720 Ай бұрын

THAT ONESHOT FRAME YOURE MY FAV YT CHANNEL OF ALL TIMES greetins from spain thanks for ur content

@reshawshid Ай бұрын

I had enough pattern recognition skills to be wary of new Nintendo products over a decade ago. It's nice that others are finally catching on to how little Nintendo actually cares about them, but man, it sure showed how few people have basic pattern recognition.

@SKCro. Ай бұрын

Honestly, if they had ported Wii Sports Resort to the Switch completely unmodified (even without new textures), it would have been *way* better than Switch Sports - Wii Sports Resort had 12 sports, twice that of Switch Sports, including many people loved from the original Wii Sports, like Bowling. Even if some like Soccer or Tennis (the former not existing before Switch Sports and the latter being replaced by Table Tennis) were missing, it still would have been a great way to bring this incredibly underrated game into the public eye once again.

@cerberusmutt4252 Ай бұрын

I will say one thing. The Switch Sports avatars look like an extention of the Animal Crossing art style, and I like them for that reason. And there we go that was the one good thing I had to say about any of it

@fernie5686 Ай бұрын

Honestly I had fun with my grandpa with this game and thats really all that mattered to me

@user-he4ir3wj3l Ай бұрын

When you think about. This game was the “mega mind vs the doom syndicate “ of Nintendo’s catalog. We’re booth were things people were asking for but when they were revealed they were the exact opposite of what people wanted from them existing, and the internet tore them to shreds.

@juliannocartagena2007 Ай бұрын

Hey at least some people LIKED Switch Sports. I have never seen a SINGLE positive thing about that Megamind "sequel".

@JBLilPaper Ай бұрын

I took my switch on vacation a few months ago. Me and my cousin decided to try to play switch sports together. To our horror, we realized you can’t play 2 player without the switch docked. Like WHY NINTENDO? YOU CAN ON 1 2 SWITCH! WHY NOT ON THIS GAME??? I haven’t gone back to the game since

@andreworders7305 Ай бұрын

21:36 something New Horizons didn’t have besides the Mario anniversary

@HenrikMyrhaug Ай бұрын

I was really looking forwards to getting a sports game on the Switch, but when I saw they only had six sports, I was incredibly disappointed. What made the Wii sports and Wii sports resort so fun was that they had such a multitude of sports, with tons of hidden minigames. The fact there were so many options is what made the games so good, since if you got bored of one, you could just pick another sport or minigame, and you could continue having fun for hours. I also llved that WSR had a well executed theme of a holiday resort at a volcanic island, and so many of the sports had you seeing the island and exploring different areas of it. The fact they got rid of this concept and made the sports entirely disconnected again made it all look so boring. In the end, I am really glad I didn't get this game.

@DRANBOLT Ай бұрын

THANK YOU for talking about this, i wanted wii sports on switch so bad and to then see this game drop was the biggest slap to the face ever

@reindertfranke1892 10 күн бұрын

I often get commercials for this game on KZfaq (Europe) in 2024. I purchased the original Wii at launch to try out Sports. Resort was a worthy successor and now this? Wuhu island is the most underrated Nintendo character IMHO… Great video, keep up the good work (blue ball LOL).

@mimmikibilly Ай бұрын

Off topic, but I want to get a Switch to play Super Mario Sunshine, Zelda, AC and some other few titles. Do you recommend it? I never managed to get some updated gaming consoles past the DS and PS3 and I would like to have something new to play.

@HauntakuTV Ай бұрын

An easy fix would be to give everyone access to the in-game cosmetic items intead of making it a stupid battlepass thing

@TigeriPlaysGames Ай бұрын

they could've done so much with the city setting, man. especially with how willing they are in this to make games like soccer where you have more traditional joystick controls mixed in. they could've brought back basketball, done skateboarding with motion control air tricks or balancing, done parkour where you have to make climbing motions and are going for a fast time, anything like that!

@sqyx93 Ай бұрын

Whenever i see a picture of switch sports i think of SpongeBob steel sting sound

@sqyx93 Ай бұрын

It came out right on my birthday but i didnt buy it

@braziliantsar Ай бұрын

@@sqyx93Good on you. That game is slop

@Fiduciariesonio Ай бұрын

Steel Sting

@juliannocartagena2007 Ай бұрын

That overused noise?

@sqyx93 Ай бұрын

@@juliannocartagena2007 the disappointment noise

@Chineseisntalanguageapparently Ай бұрын

Holy shit that montage of people reacting to the miis was the best part of this video

@Roast52 7 күн бұрын

I feel like the building in the bottom right corner of the map could definitely be added as basketball, seeing as it looks like a basketball logo on the top.

@declanintheusa7109 Ай бұрын

You're very funny, great writing and timing btw

@sirlawrence1963 Ай бұрын

Even if the game has its problems, this is the one game I have consistently on rotation when the boys get together, the perfect casual couch drinking game. Been playing on and off since it’s come out till today. Had the boys over and played golf for 7 hours straight once, some of my favourite video game moments…

@NickMario1 Ай бұрын

How could you play golf for 7 hours straight lol

@sirlawrence1963 Ай бұрын

@@NickMario1 A mix of alcohol and a share incompetence at the game leading to 18 hole game taking 10 times longer than it should, and we played a few 18 hole games...

@HopefulBlue Ай бұрын

I forgot about this game until I saw this vid in my feed

@jamiecal11 Ай бұрын

This and Mario Strikers being very disappointing in close proximity, pretty much ended my interest in the Switch (a few of the major titles aside).

@NickMario1 Ай бұрын

And scarlet and violet

@jaxsterminator8634 Ай бұрын

Those games are perfect.

@wesleyboi2000 22 күн бұрын

I clicked on this video in the middle of watching another video of yours, and your tone was the exact same, so it sounded like you smoothly went from talking about Nintendo sins to switch sports 😂😂

@s_sunshower Ай бұрын

I feel like the 3ds/Wii U was the last era they ever had where they tried to implement some level of personality/connection to the user withij the console. There's customization on the Switch, no music, no fun gimmicks or hidden tricks, nothing fun about it other than the fact that it can play the next generation of games. If the 3ds was capable of handling the graphic requirements of the Switch, I'd still take it over the Switch any other day.

@edwardsaldana2534 Ай бұрын

Too bad, many fans on the internet trash 3ds Mario by calling it bland era, and 3ds Pokémon becoming the beginning of it’s downfall and smash 4, honestly why is smash 4 getting so much hate. And these games aren’t even bad, they just get hate for lame reasons

@zerron2156 Ай бұрын

That's cool and all, but a person that has Godot's song as an outro to a long video + Classic persona music in the bwckground deserves a sub. Good vid

@EBTheOriginalMaster Ай бұрын

15:55 I heard this music from another video and really would like to know where it's from. Can someone please tell me?

@maverickhuntersyd Ай бұрын

Thank you for explaining the importance of the miis!! They're not just avatars, they're apart of Nintendo's brand and literally iconic! We always laughed about how they turned the avatars into a franchise with miitopia and whatnot but I genuinely adored that shit!

@kylespevak6781 Ай бұрын

26:36 This parallels so many game cycles. Currently Multiversus is experiencing it

@jonato5298 Ай бұрын

I just clicked the video to check if miyamoto has 2 right hands

@goldenfleecestudios Ай бұрын

This video made me realize how much Nintendo and gaming as a whole has changed since my childhood. Imagine if there was something like the mii channel today where every single customization was already there. for free. Not only that, but each wii came with a free copy of an iconic game that, again, requires absolutely no DLC and is completely finished. something that like is unthinkable today.

@Expandedsky Ай бұрын

5:43 the song is from My Pokémon Ranch if anyone was wondering

@d3stiny117 Ай бұрын

Ayo do you know what's the song at 16:29?

@ZaiKuderz Ай бұрын

Great video what music did you use?

@Link4750 Ай бұрын

How to properly play Switch Sports: 1.) Be disappointed 2.) Be peeved for cosmetics being locked to memberships 3.) Hack your Switch and upload a 100% unlocked save file to (each of) your account(s) to spite Nintendo's greed 4.) Shelf the game for occasion gatherings that happen like once a year

@Slashser Ай бұрын

If there's anything positive about this, is that maybe this was Nintendo experimenting on the live-service mode, and them abandoning it so quickly means that they don't mean to return to it anytime soon. It's what I choose to believe anyway, I despise live-service games

@camsheet4649 8 күн бұрын

I believe this to be the best switch sports vid to date

@calamaria9221 Ай бұрын

Honestly I passed on Switch Sports because it felt like it focused so much on online play and solo play was an afterthought. Also I thought they would at least put in the original sports lineup. I also didn't like having to hold down the button the whole time in bowling and idk sometimes you just want to play a regular 'ole bowling where it's just you. Oh and hearing you couldn't party up with a friend (as I was thinking of convincing my online friends to get it). Anyway, there's no way they couldn't have put in Boxing when there's at least 3 Fitness Boxing games in the eShop. I also don't know why they didn't have Golf ready on release. I didn't follow this game, but it's also crazy how they just stopped at Golf in terms of adding more sports. Like idk, back when they announced Golf was coming soon I got the impression that more was coming. Like baseball, basketball, and modes/challenges that were in the previous Sports games. I do think the player models looked cute, though I still do miss the Miis, but it was an absolute crime they took away the animation of throwing your bowling ball behind you and everyone watching getting scared. I'm glad I played in the playtest and decided not to get this game now that I know what ended up happening.

@reagansido5823 Ай бұрын

I did not know about the NSO only battle pass. Or that it only got as far as one year after choosing to be live service. Now I see why it felt like this game came and went like THAT.