Wii Sports

This is your IGN review of Nintendo Switch Sports Resort by Jesse Vitale.

Back in 2022, Nintendo attempted to revive the fun and charm of the motion-controlled Wii sports era.

but it didn't quite live up to that lofty goal.

Now in 2026, Nintendo Switch Sports Resort takes another swing at that same difficult feat with a clear focus on more.

So while it may not clear the high bar

set

by the original Wii Sports in 2006, it still brings out the same childlike joy.

Nintendo Switch Sports Resort is a collection of 12 different sports minigames, ranging from highly competitive one-on-one table tennis... to leisurely cruising in a prop plane around Woohoo Island where they all take place.

for you.

Which is, we have a new Wii Sports, Switch Sports, Switch Sports Resort, whatever you want to call these games, that is

out.

And I am curious

Yeah, it's really weird.

You don't see many.

I remember when the Wii came out, all these like 2K games had all these sub labels where they were doing these kind of like Wii Sports style games.

Yeah, it's just like a very weirdly Nintendo thing.

Yeah, right.

I've got to say I've seen a lot of reviews of this reference Wii Sports and reference it as like a masterpiece.

Right.

Which it's like it's very good at what it does, that it's a pack-in.

But, yeah, it's got this cool like little, I forget what it's called, like championship kind of mode for single player of each of these where you start out, you basically do 20 rounds of it that get increasingly harder.

So it's like you're trying to take down the champion of the island.

Every time you play one of the sports, you're getting points, which you can use to, unlock different items of clothing and hairstyles and all this customization stuff that's pretty cool the sense of space where it all takes place on this little resort so you kind of are seeing you know oh we're over here on the volleyball bit we're over here on the table tennis bit is really cool gives it a nice little sense of space yeah um i think if you've ever liked the wii sports stuff and you have people in your life that like that kind of casual thing you have people around regularly i think it does i i don't think that the i didn't really feel like the um the uh switch sports game i think

it was just called Switch Sports? I think so,

This game, Nintendo Switch Sports Resort, follows 2022's Nintendo Switch Sports Resort.

And it brings back Woohoo Island from Wii Sports Resort.

This time, though, it is kind of a full open world map.

You can explore it freely.

All of those return from Switch Sports.

There's new games.

We have archery and table tennis from Wii Sports Resort.

We have boxing returning for the first time since the original Wii Sports.

And next one.

That shot of Bruno staring at Guy amongst the tennis crowd whilst everyone else's head swings back and forth like a me in Wii Sports is freaking glorious.

That was a good shot.

I really liked that.

And I don't know if Carl was there or not, but it was a bunch of us playing that.

And then we also played WarioWare and Wii Sports, obviously.

And then that's pretty much my entire Nintendo experience there.

Because other than the Wii, I've just never been interested in any of it.

Try to demonetize us now, Universal Music Group.

I was just about to say, you should do that to the Wii Sports song.

But then I remembered that would probably get you demonetized too.

Yeah, also that song is like five seconds long.

game stuff with AI, good.

Mac is – we love to say that, or is that illegal? He is jailbreaking Wii Sports and, like, making it so you can hit, like, 1,000-foot home runs.

And, like, he put our logo, Shiphead's

logo, in the Wii Sports stadium, and he moved the stands back 100 feet.

That's so sick.

So we need to get it so we can play it on Wii, and maybe we'll put a clip of it here.