Slownenberg said:
I haven't played it yet but at least from reviews it seems like a low effort game compared to what I had hoped for (like all Nintendo's sports games have been on Switch).
As it is, I see it doing <15 million which is low for what I would expect out of this game, but makes sense for the effort level they seemingly put into it (at least from what I've read). It had a good opening and will have legs but I'm not sure it'll get above 15 million. I'll get it eventually once Golf is out this Fall. I don't know the details of what all it has other than just knowing the sports it has, but it seems like the critical reception has been muted, which is unfortunate. For years I've been saying Switch needs a Wii Sports sequel and it would automatically be a 20 million seller but for some reason Nintendo has been releasing all mediocre sports games for Switch (Aces, Golf, Strikers, Sports) in which they have to add content after launch to even get the games to a competent level of content, and this seems to be another.
Hopefully it is really good and better than what I've heard, but even if it is I haven't seen the word of mouth to suggest it'll leg itself to 20 million. But just the fact that it's a Wii Sports sequel on Switch means it'll get over 10 million on brand name alone. I could see it getting close to 15 million. If they keep updating and adding content and improving it after the Golf update maybe it could have huge legs, but as far as I know the only planned updates were to finish the soccer game which already happened, and add Golf this Fall.
I'm looking forward to playing it but from what I've heard I don't think it'll be the 20+ million it could have been. |
Yeah I agree with you the sports games are not really worth it on the switch. Tbf Switch sports is cheaper than the Mario sports series but it still is a little expensive for what it is. It's fun don't get me wrong, but since I already played Wii Sports like crazy back in the day, I already experienced it all. Obviously Switch Sports is meant for newer audience and generation of people. Your wrong about one thing tho, because apparently they did take a lot of time on this game as it was planned to release way sooner. That's why I don't understand the lack of content, and reading some of their interviews made me sad because they genuinely had good ideas that was scrapped bcuz it wasn't really "Wii Sports-like". So yeah after multiple revisions, they reminded themselves to keep the roots of the Wii sport series and made it simple for "anyone" to have fun which ultimately resulted in this... I woulda loved a story/single-player mode similar to Jikkyo Powerful Baseball would have been super fun if there was.
Now I'm hoping these planned updates are good. I don't mind this update formula unlike a lot of people in this community but it should be more frequent, not like once per 3 month especially since the content is barebones from start.
