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RolStoppable said:
spemanig said:

Off topic, but did you know that Wii Sports is pretty much a carbon copy of some of the old "sports" games of the NES, like Golf, Baseball, and Tennis?

The gameplay (and some maps) is nearly identical, making Wii Sports generously a spiritual successor and discourteously a direct sequel to those games, rather than a brand new IP like many have fairly assumed.

Just a bit of trivia lol since it blew my mind when I put 2-and-2 together.

Yeah, congrats. Great achievement. Normally I would follow up these words with a sarcastic comment, but this time I really mean it. Even the majority of Nintendo fans is oblivious to what you posted, so it goes without saying that the entirety of the gaming community has an even lower percentage of people who are in the know.

Technically though, Wii Sports is indeed a new IP because of its execution. It's just not a new idea to make video games based on sports, not even for Nintendo. Semantics.

Haha, thanks.