https://www.engadget.com/2011-04-18-wii-sports-resort-wii-party-drop-by-10-on-april-25.html

This article from 2011 says that Wii Sports Resort and Wii Party would be getting a permanent $10 price drop down to $40. So it wasn't more ecpensive than other games and went for $50. Still Switch Sports is cheaper, especially when accounting for inflation, but as of what we know now will feature less content.

If you enjoy Wii Sports but haven't played Resort yet, you're in for a treat.

It's one of those sequels that's bigger and better in basically every way, building on the foundation laid by the original while pushing the envelope further with much more content and a level of control nuance that wasn't possibly with the base Wiimote.

Resort was the game I got with my Wii in 2009, and playing it for the first time back then was one of the most "next gen" moments in my gaming life, playing games like the kendo/swordfighting with 1:1 motion controls felt like something from the future. Even today it holds up remarkably in my opinion.

This can be big!!

For me are very few sports and most of them are about to passing a ball above a net...

The deal would have been to have all sports from the first, some from Resort (ping pong, archer...) and some new additions... Maybe if it sales a lot would have extra sports via DLC

I have some question as to how good Switch Sports will be, with my main problems/questions being: Golf coming very late might hurt its sales, will you be able to actually move your character in Tennis, will it have good training modes like Wii Sports, no boxing, not many sports like Resort had and doesn't seem likely more sports will be added after Golf.

Regardless, I agree it'll at least do 10 million. But, if what is there is great and it gets really good word of mouth I could see this thing blowing up to 30m+ Wii Sports Resort type numbers.

Because I could see it appealing to the Ring Fit crowd which looks like it'll eventually hit 20m, but Sports will have more general appeal than a specifically fitness game that costs more with the peripheral. So with really good word of mouth, Ring Fit numbers would be my absolute bottom estimate. Then on the high side I could see this appealing a lot to the Animal Crossing casual crowd. In 2020 I bet a ton of casual gamers and non-gamers bought a Switch for Animal Crossing, and I could see a lot of them picking up Switch Sports, but also Switch Sports will appeal to plenty of people like me who aren't into that super casual play of Animal Crossing but love more active casual gaming like Wii Sports. With AC clearly heading toward well over 40m it is reasonable to conclude Switch Sports could at least go over 30 million. Again this assumes it is really good and therefore gets great word of mouth.

Could definitely have a big launch, be a big holiday seller this year for kids, and be a strong evergreen game.

But on the low side if it turns out to be sort of a low effort product with a lack of great sports (like maybe bowling is the only great sport and Golf coming out half a year later is too little too late) then yeah just 10+ million would sound about right.

Seems like a another great Mii Sports game! I hope they add football eventually into one of the installments but I digress it looks like a 9/10 trailer.

I absolutely love Resort, it really is a similar expanded experience to Wii Sports, as RingFit Adventure is to Wii Fit. There is a lot that drove the title forward, I personally love the most, how every event is on one island, Wuhu Island and you can explore the sites via airplane.

As Nintendo in the early days of the Switch showed no interest in revisiting these games, I bought one of the 3rd-party efforts that were ported from Wii to Switch: Go Vacation. The game is butt-ugly and most events are kinda boring, so I cannot recommend it, but it had one aspect that was glorious: you could freely roam around on the resort you played in, in a variety of vehicles. If the area would'Ve been more interesting with more stuff to explore and discover it would have been more fun, still just driving around in a quad was fun. The single sport events were on the map and you could start them by driving or walking to them and interact. The most fun was the jet-ski, as they built in obstacles and ramps on the water, so I could freely make jumps and drive around.

So my dream game would be a mix of resort and Go Vacation. A Wuhu island in HD, which I can freely explore at foot or in vehicles at land, water and air with stuff to discover and quite some sport events. Maybe even owning a flat on the island you can customize and show off to friends in online.

But well, we get what we get. I hope they don't stop at golf at least and add more events over time. I would love shooting arrows like in resort again, that was fun.

Yeah Resort was unironically one of the best games of 2009 for me, and I had a 360 and PS3 at the time as well as a Wii so it's not like I was limited for choice.

Hopefully Switch Sports can carry the torch forward successfully so that the franchise can re-establish itself and grow.

Registration is open for the playtest on the 18th-20th:

https://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-switch-sports-online-play-test-registration-open/

Man!! Did I have fun with bowling survival mode!! So cool!!!

Played tennis bowling and chambara. The standard of the bowling was so high! Tennis was really cool. Much more precise than the original and hitting hard shots down the line was so satisfying, Chambara i found myself to be strangely adept at. All in all, great fun!