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Nintendo Switch™ Sports - Nintendo Switch - Standard Edition
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- Swing, kick, spike, and bowl your way to victory in a sports collection that will get the whole family moving
- Play online and face opponents near and far to earn in-game rewards or aim for the Pro League
- Play with friends and family in the same room or across the world
- Play Soccer, Volleyball, Bowling, Tennis, Badminton and Chambara (Swordplay)
- Golf is planned to be added via a free update this fall
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- Language : English
- Rated : Everyone 10+
- Product Dimensions : 10 x 4 x 17 cm; 140.61 Grams
- Release date : April 29 2022
- Subtitles: : Mandarin Chinese
- Manufacturer : Nintendo
- ASIN : B09KRK6C82
- Item model number : HACRAS8SA
- Country of origin : Japan
- Best Sellers Rank: #3 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
- #1 in Nintendo Switch Games
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Swing, kick, spike, and bowl your way to victory in a sports collection that will get the whole family moving Get moving with Soccer, Volleyball, Bowling, Tennis, Badminton, and Chambara (Swordplay) using Joy-Con™ controllers! Controls are intuitive, so you can hit the court (or lanes, or field, or arena) and get started. With controlled motions you can curve your bowling ball, add spin to a tennis shot, or even use a Joy-Con with the included Leg Strap accessory to kick the ball in a Soccer Shootout. Family and friends can join in on the fun on the same system* or online**. Plus a seventh sport is planned to be added via a free update this fall; get ready to Golf! Play online and face opponents near and far to earn in-game rewards or aim for the Pro League Face off against opponents worldwide and strive to reach the Pro League in every sport. As you play online** in random matchmaking, redeem points you earn for in-game rewards like outfits, sports accessories, gear, and much more for your avatar. The selection of items will rotate each week, so check back and see what’s in stock! Play with friends and family in the same room or across the world Bowl, spike, and duel with friends in all 6 sports! Pass a Joy-Con controller to a friend* for some 1v1, 2v2, or a free-for-all that will get everyone moving. In Bowling, all players can bowl simultaneously—no waiting for your turn. Play each game online**, or team up with a friend on the same system to take on opponents near and far in team sports like Volleyball and Tennis.
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Swing, kick, spike, and bowl your way to victory in 6 sports
Get moving with Soccer, Volleyball, Bowling, Tennis, Badminton, and Chambara (swordplay) using Joy-Con controllers! Controls are intuitive, so you can hit the court (or lanes, or field, or arena) and get started. With controlled motions you can curve your bowling ball, add spin to a tennis shot, or even use a Joy-Con with the included Leg Strap accessory to kick the ball in a Soccer Shoot-Out. Family and friends can join in on the fun on the same system* or online**. Plus a seventh sport is planned to be added via a free update this fall; get ready to Golf!***
A sports collection that will get the whole family moving
Play online or in the same room
Play online and face opponents near and far to earn in-game rewards or aim for the Pro League
Face off against opponents worldwide and strive to reach the Pro League in every sport. As you play online** in random matchmaking, redeem points you earn for in-game rewards like outfits, sports accessories, gear, and much more for your avatar. The selection of items will rotate each week, so check back and see what’s in stock!
Play with friends and family in the same room or across the world
Bowl, spike, and duel with friends in all 6 sports! Pass a Joy-Con controller to a friend* for some 1v1, 2v2, or a free-for-all that will get everyone moving. In Bowling, all players can bowl simultaneously—no waiting for your turn. Play each sport online**, or team up with a friend on the same system to take on opponents near and far in team sports like Volleyball and Tennis.
Leg Strap Accessory
The physical version of the Nintendo Switch Sports game includes the Leg Strap accessory to use in Soccer. Or purchase the digital version at a lower cost and buy the Leg Strap accessory separately.

*Additional accessories may be required for multiplayer mode. Sold separately.
**Any Nintendo Switch Online membership (sold separately) and Nintendo Account required for online features. Not available in all countries. Internet access required for online features. Terms apply. nintendo.com/switch-online
*** Software update required.
**** Be aware of your surroundings. Wear wrist straps and allow adequate room around you during game play.
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Massive regret buying this, just borrow it from someone for a day, it’s all you need.
Bowling for example, you no longer release the trigger to roll the ball. You hold ZR through the entire motion. Wut? Wtf ? WHY!
Tennis is all about miss timing. You are supposed to hit the ball before it gets to the player, and the direction of your swing is irrelevant. Instead, direction is determined by when you hit the ball.
Again, why would you change this? This isn't nearly as intuitive and clean as Wii Sports. Terribly disappointing.
One very important factor to keep in mind with this game is while you can play Offline or just with Friends the majority of the GamePlay is held within the Online Mode as that's where you can get all the unlockables.
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If you get a physical copy, it includes the leg strap. It’s the exact same as the one you get from ‘Ring Fit Adventure’. As stated in my review for that one; wished it had double banded vecro instead of one as it can slip down. If you plan to buy digital, you can buy the strap separately for $10 (MSRP). Note that the digital version is $10 cheaper (without leg strap)
7 Sports total. Wii Sports Resort had 13, but also with more modes within individual sports
4 returning sports from Wii Sports/Wii Sports Resort: Tennis, Bowling, and Swordplay (now called chambira), Golf (as part of free update in Fall 2022)
3 new sports: football (soccer), volleyball, and badminton
Seeing that there’s free DlC. It may have live service updates (Like Animal Crossing NH, and Splatoon). No official announcement yet aside from Golf. Hoping for Basketball freethrow, and return of archery in the future at no additional cost if they plan to add more sports
Will give my impressions on each sport at the end (excluding Golf seeing this is a near launch review).
Seeing it’s a near launch review; cannot comment on any gameplay changes, future dlc (more additional sports, or added modes within sports)
Plays like Wii Sports/Wii Sports Resort as you make exaggerated movements or flick of the wrist to have your avatar do moves onscreen. For most games, you don’t really control the positioning of your character. You can do movements around the field with joy stick, but seeing how small the field is, charactgers automatically moves you most of the time. You won’t get a workout unless you play for hours at a time. If you want to sweat, I’d get ‘Ring Fit Adventure’ instead
No training mode, or practice mini-games like past Wii Sports titles. For some sports you just get a basic tutorial then just play. Doesn’t explain hidden rules and tips well
No boss battles like past titles either. You do get 3 difficulty modes: Normal, Strong, and Powerhouse. If you play offline there’s no high score tracking or any progression. They are just pick-up games
Now has online. Nintendo Online membership required. Note that you need to play online to get points to spend on cosmetics. If there’s not enough players, there are CPU fill ins. Don’t get why you can’t play with CPU offline and still get points.
-Controls:
Use gyroscope in Joy-cons instead of Gyro + sensor bar in Wii/Wii U games.
Seeing I have adult sized hands; holding the small jon cons doesn’t feel as nice as the Wii Remote. Z button on joy cons are not as ergonomic to press than wii mote (especially when playing bowling).
There is a left handed mode option
Motion controls only (unlike Ring Fit Adventure which had button only mode). If you own a Switch Lite, must play on table top on small screen, and buy individual joycons. Note: you only can play table top mode (Any version of Switch console) in single player. If you try to play with more than one person, the game won’t let you play. Guess they added this feature to prevent eye squinting and people bumping into each other due to the small screen.
-New Avatars
Miis make a return (via faces), but you can also use the Sportsmates avatars (anime-esk artstyle) if you want. Now have arms and legs instead of floating arms and feet
When you play as Miis, you cannot import mii from other friends’ account, or other accounts that’s not on your Switch system
In terms of customization: Sportsmates are more focused on individual clothes than faces on Miis.
If you do plan to play as Miis; only can equip new body clothes. Cannot equip face accessories like hats, masks, beards and glasses
There are unlockable outfits. Again, tied to online modes. There are default customization options for Sportmates if you don’t have Nintendo Online, but the selection is limited. Cosmetic unlocks change out weekly (cheap mobile game FOMO tactic), so it encourages you to play regularly.
Other unlockable include name tags/titles where you select a two words (an adjective/greeting, and noun) that show above your name in versus screen. Also emotes
Everyone gets different board sets. 24 items total to unlock before they go away. Unlocks are tied to RNG/random on what unlocks first/what order.
Overall, If you own Wii Sports Resort it’s basically the same core experience, but that game had more sports and modes to play around with.
Feels like an unfinished game at launch.
At launch, aside from the updated HD graphics, and ability to play online; don’t see a reason to pick up this new game unless you don’t have Wii Sports Resort, a Wii or Wii U, or too lazy to take it out of storage.
This game like Wii Sport, and Wii Sports Resort is very fun with others. Still get that excitement when playing with people locally who you haven’t seen in a while; like playing an ice breaker type board game
Now onto my take on each individual sport.
--List of games (at launch):
1. Tennis
Same as Wii Sports games, but stricter on the on timing.
Character position automatically, only need to focus on swings
Rotate wrist for top spin or backspin
Can’t play singles tennis. Only doubles. When playing 1v1 you control two people and it feels like a tennis foosball fusion game
Able to set match length/sets. Not sure why there’s no option for it in badminton and volleyball
Wished it was more options like Mario Tennis Aces.
2. Bowling
Same bowling in Wii Sports and Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics
Controls a bit different. Need to hold the Z button throughout and not let go when you want to release, so it’s one smooth motion. For me doesn’t feel as natural
Can’t swing the ball backwards and scare the spectators anymore. Actually there are no spectators unless you count those standing very far away on the above floors
Able to do 4 player local split screen. No need to take turns. Can play 8 players online (up to 2 people local can joining in)
Special lanes return with ramps, obstacles and hill slope lanes. Sort of like Spin Control in Wii Sports Resort
No (up to) 100 pin challenge or Spare Pickup mode
Online only mode Survival is a 16 player Bowling Battle Royal. Highest score progress to next stage while others are eliminated. Aside from the high score tennis wall ball mini-game in the credits, this is the best mode in the game at launch in my opinion
3. Chambara
Plays like Sword Play in Wii Sports Resort
Can select type of sword this time: Standard, Charged or Twin Sword
Press ZL to block or guard.
Standard Sword has best base attack.
For Charge Sword , you build up charge attack meter every time block perfectly (position block perpendicular of opponent’s attack). When meter is full, you can do one strong attack. Note that base attack is weaker than Standard Sword
Twin Sword is basically duel welding. Need two joycons per player obviously. Able to block with one sword and get ready for attack with other. Cannot attack and defend simultaneously. Able to spin attack when sword is charged. Unlock Charge Sword it’s based on how many times swing an attack than block
No showdown mode like in Wii Sports Resport
4. Soccer:
Two modes:
Traditional Soccer match with a life size ball: 4v4 or 1v1. Use two joycons per person. One you swing with your arms to kick and shoot. Heard they’re adding in leg strap/kick support in later patch. With other joycon you move/run around joystick. ZL to dash, ZR to pass, B to jump. Swing two hands down for head dive.
The field is too big in comparison to character’s movement speed in my opinion. Stamina bar doesn’t help. Not as fast as Rocket League, but has better control than Lucio Ball (Overwatch)
Soccer Shootout-Mode. Basically, a penalty shootout. Use leg strap, able to kick with leg this time instead of swinging your arms. Careful not to kick the TV. Ball will be thrown at you and you must kick it at the right time to get a goal
5. Volleyball:
Game positions your avatar for you like in Tennis. Most of the time the game auto positions you, but can make slight move adjustments with joystick when blocking. This mini-game is all about timing and knowing which motion to do at the right time. Game will tell you if you’re doing it too early, or perfectly
Main motions to focus on are Bump, Spike and Block
Shake down or swat down movement to spike
Two hands in the air to set and block
Serve by swinging arms up or down
Underhand lift up to Dig or Bump
Game will give you tips/prompts suggestions on what to do
4 player split screen if you play local co-op. Shows each player on 4 separate screens. Don’t get why they don’t do double split screen for each team
6. Badminton
Like tennis but more involved and faster. Need faster reaction time seeing the smaller field
Need to press ZL for a drop shot
Only can play singles. No doubles
There’s a hidden stamina system. If you swing frantically your character will get tired and accuracy will lower


Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2022
If you get a physical copy, it includes the leg strap. It’s the exact same as the one you get from ‘Ring Fit Adventure’. As stated in my review for that one; wished it had double banded vecro instead of one as it can slip down. If you plan to buy digital, you can buy the strap separately for $10 (MSRP). Note that the digital version is $10 cheaper (without leg strap)
7 Sports total. Wii Sports Resort had 13, but also with more modes within individual sports
4 returning sports from Wii Sports/Wii Sports Resort: Tennis, Bowling, and Swordplay (now called chambira), Golf (as part of free update in Fall 2022)
3 new sports: football (soccer), volleyball, and badminton
Seeing that there’s free DlC. It may have live service updates (Like Animal Crossing NH, and Splatoon). No official announcement yet aside from Golf. Hoping for Basketball freethrow, and return of archery in the future at no additional cost if they plan to add more sports
Will give my impressions on each sport at the end (excluding Golf seeing this is a near launch review).
Seeing it’s a near launch review; cannot comment on any gameplay changes, future dlc (more additional sports, or added modes within sports)
Plays like Wii Sports/Wii Sports Resort as you make exaggerated movements or flick of the wrist to have your avatar do moves onscreen. For most games, you don’t really control the positioning of your character. You can do movements around the field with joy stick, but seeing how small the field is, charactgers automatically moves you most of the time. You won’t get a workout unless you play for hours at a time. If you want to sweat, I’d get ‘Ring Fit Adventure’ instead
No training mode, or practice mini-games like past Wii Sports titles. For some sports you just get a basic tutorial then just play. Doesn’t explain hidden rules and tips well
No boss battles like past titles either. You do get 3 difficulty modes: Normal, Strong, and Powerhouse. If you play offline there’s no high score tracking or any progression. They are just pick-up games
Now has online. Nintendo Online membership required. Note that you need to play online to get points to spend on cosmetics. If there’s not enough players, there are CPU fill ins. Don’t get why you can’t play with CPU offline and still get points.
-Controls:
Use gyroscope in Joy-cons instead of Gyro + sensor bar in Wii/Wii U games.
Seeing I have adult sized hands; holding the small jon cons doesn’t feel as nice as the Wii Remote. Z button on joy cons are not as ergonomic to press than wii mote (especially when playing bowling).
There is a left handed mode option
Motion controls only (unlike Ring Fit Adventure which had button only mode). If you own a Switch Lite, must play on table top on small screen, and buy individual joycons. Note: you only can play table top mode (Any version of Switch console) in single player. If you try to play with more than one person, the game won’t let you play. Guess they added this feature to prevent eye squinting and people bumping into each other due to the small screen.
-New Avatars
Miis make a return (via faces), but you can also use the Sportsmates avatars (anime-esk artstyle) if you want. Now have arms and legs instead of floating arms and feet
When you play as Miis, you cannot import mii from other friends’ account, or other accounts that’s not on your Switch system
In terms of customization: Sportsmates are more focused on individual clothes than faces on Miis.
If you do plan to play as Miis; only can equip new body clothes. Cannot equip face accessories like hats, masks, beards and glasses
There are unlockable outfits. Again, tied to online modes. There are default customization options for Sportmates if you don’t have Nintendo Online, but the selection is limited. Cosmetic unlocks change out weekly (cheap mobile game FOMO tactic), so it encourages you to play regularly.
Other unlockable include name tags/titles where you select a two words (an adjective/greeting, and noun) that show above your name in versus screen. Also emotes
Everyone gets different board sets. 24 items total to unlock before they go away. Unlocks are tied to RNG/random on what unlocks first/what order.
Overall, If you own Wii Sports Resort it’s basically the same core experience, but that game had more sports and modes to play around with.
Feels like an unfinished game at launch.
At launch, aside from the updated HD graphics, and ability to play online; don’t see a reason to pick up this new game unless you don’t have Wii Sports Resort, a Wii or Wii U, or too lazy to take it out of storage.
This game like Wii Sport, and Wii Sports Resort is very fun with others. Still get that excitement when playing with people locally who you haven’t seen in a while; like playing an ice breaker type board game
Now onto my take on each individual sport.
--List of games (at launch):
1. Tennis
Same as Wii Sports games, but stricter on the on timing.
Character position automatically, only need to focus on swings
Rotate wrist for top spin or backspin
Can’t play singles tennis. Only doubles. When playing 1v1 you control two people and it feels like a tennis foosball fusion game
Able to set match length/sets. Not sure why there’s no option for it in badminton and volleyball
Wished it was more options like Mario Tennis Aces.
2. Bowling
Same bowling in Wii Sports and Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics
Controls a bit different. Need to hold the Z button throughout and not let go when you want to release, so it’s one smooth motion. For me doesn’t feel as natural
Can’t swing the ball backwards and scare the spectators anymore. Actually there are no spectators unless you count those standing very far away on the above floors
Able to do 4 player local split screen. No need to take turns. Can play 8 players online (up to 2 people local can joining in)
Special lanes return with ramps, obstacles and hill slope lanes. Sort of like Spin Control in Wii Sports Resort
No (up to) 100 pin challenge or Spare Pickup mode
Online only mode Survival is a 16 player Bowling Battle Royal. Highest score progress to next stage while others are eliminated. Aside from the high score tennis wall ball mini-game in the credits, this is the best mode in the game at launch in my opinion
3. Chambara
Plays like Sword Play in Wii Sports Resort
Can select type of sword this time: Standard, Charged or Twin Sword
Press ZL to block or guard.
Standard Sword has best base attack.
For Charge Sword , you build up charge attack meter every time block perfectly (position block perpendicular of opponent’s attack). When meter is full, you can do one strong attack. Note that base attack is weaker than Standard Sword
Twin Sword is basically duel welding. Need two joycons per player obviously. Able to block with one sword and get ready for attack with other. Cannot attack and defend simultaneously. Able to spin attack when sword is charged. Unlock Charge Sword it’s based on how many times swing an attack than block
No showdown mode like in Wii Sports Resport
4. Soccer:
Two modes:
Traditional Soccer match with a life size ball: 4v4 or 1v1. Use two joycons per person. One you swing with your arms to kick and shoot. Heard they’re adding in leg strap/kick support in later patch. With other joycon you move/run around joystick. ZL to dash, ZR to pass, B to jump. Swing two hands down for head dive.
The field is too big in comparison to character’s movement speed in my opinion. Stamina bar doesn’t help. Not as fast as Rocket League, but has better control than Lucio Ball (Overwatch)
Soccer Shootout-Mode. Basically, a penalty shootout. Use leg strap, able to kick with leg this time instead of swinging your arms. Careful not to kick the TV. Ball will be thrown at you and you must kick it at the right time to get a goal
5. Volleyball:
Game positions your avatar for you like in Tennis. Most of the time the game auto positions you, but can make slight move adjustments with joystick when blocking. This mini-game is all about timing and knowing which motion to do at the right time. Game will tell you if you’re doing it too early, or perfectly
Main motions to focus on are Bump, Spike and Block
Shake down or swat down movement to spike
Two hands in the air to set and block
Serve by swinging arms up or down
Underhand lift up to Dig or Bump
Game will give you tips/prompts suggestions on what to do
4 player split screen if you play local co-op. Shows each player on 4 separate screens. Don’t get why they don’t do double split screen for each team
6. Badminton
Like tennis but more involved and faster. Need faster reaction time seeing the smaller field
Need to press ZL for a drop shot
Only can play singles. No doubles
There’s a hidden stamina system. If you swing frantically your character will get tired and accuracy will lower



While I remember how much fun I had on Wii Sports growing up, we all know how iconic this game was. The music, the sports, the gameplay? 10/10 across the board. So when I saw the trailer for Switch Sports, I was ecstatic. That enthusiasm continued until today, the day it finally came in, and I actually got the chance to play it. At this point, two hours in, I’ve seen enough, and here’s what I have to say:
What I expected would be a reskin of Wii Sports (better graphics, better motion controls, maybe some new sports that weren’t in the original) ended up being a huge disappointment. The gameplay is slow. Bowling, Tennis, and Swordplay play similarly, but all three new games have glaring flaws. Badminton is basically tennis. Volleyball is so slow and offers no dynamic gameplay and comes off almost turn based. Soccer is slow, and the leg strap only applies to one very boring game mode—Shootout, which is basically just a timing game since it’s just an open net.
But it goes beyond the gameplay. Nintendo removed the rating system, instead opting for a “Normal, Strong, Powerhouse” 3-difficulty system. Normal is just easy. Strong is hard to beat. Powerhouse is near impossible. You may wonder what your incentive to play is if it’s no longer a rating. It’s cosmetics, which are only earned through online play, making the game pretty boring after a short period of time.
All in all, this Wii Sports lover was massively disappointed. My recommendation: save your $50.
