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Jumpin said:

The thing I’m looking most forward to is I work from a home office now. I usually take a 5 minute break every half hour to stretch and do a few quick exercises, get a coffee, or something. I can hardly wait to fill those five minute breaks with Wii Sports bowling and tennis. That’s the one thing Ring Fit Adventure lacked for me, was a satisfying casual mode. It HAD some casual mode stuff, but it wasn’t the same potential as Wii Sports or Wii Fit.

When I think of casual games, I’m thinking of those I pick up for 2-5 minutes a time maybe like 3-10 times a day, and do that over a period of months. Wii Sports wasn’t necessarily designed for that, but it can be used that way.

Nintendo royally effed up the value proposition of Wii Sports.
It never should have been bundled for one.
They should have done 'New Play Control' for half the Gamecube games. Mario Tennis, golf, baseball etc and then released Wii Sports. MK DD should have had motion control added too and then MKWii should have released 3-5 years in.
Wii Sports is classic games like Pong w/motion control + pick up n play (small bursts) + solid local multiplayer + party game + fitness game + accessibility. Totally undervalued.
Nintendo seems to be 'copying' what MS did with the 360. Start off high-end core (handheld console), move to casual (motion control home console) and have plenty of 'casual to core' experiences ready for when the casuals want more instead of doing it arse-backwards like Nintendo did with Wii.



Nov 2016 - NES outsells PS1 (JP)

Don't Play Stationary 4 ever. Switch!