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JWeinCom on 16 August 2020
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WoodenPints said:
JWeinCom said:

I would question the last sentence of your post unless there's some actual data to back it up. It sold less than TP, but that had motion controls to (to a lesser extent) and didn't require motion plus, and had the benefit of being available at launch.

I'm honestly not sure how this game could be done with motion controls. A lot of enemies, and especially the boss fights are really centered around them. Unless they majorly reworked the combat, they'd need at least a way for you to angle your slashes, which seems like it wouldn't work well.

I can't comment on how TP played on the Wii since my playthroughs of it have only been on the GCN and WiiU but just from people I know or general comments I see there seems to be more who don't like the motion controls of Skyward Sword or just motion controls in general than I see who like them but that's anecdotal so maybe I am wrong. There is also the Switch Lite as mentioned by Leynos above that if they were to take the motion control scheme of the original it would cut out owners of that hardware.

As you said, that's anecdotal evidence. As for the Switch Lite, you'd still be able to run it, although admittedly it'd be a bit awkward. But there are already other games, Ring Fit and 1-2 Switch for instance that have the same issue. Shrinks the user base, but otherwise they couldn't release any motion controlled games at all.