Game News Nintendo Switch Sports: already an accident barely a day after the game was released!

Wii Sports: an already dangerous game

It was one of the scourges that plagued Wii players in their time: throwing the wiimote, the Wii controller that allowed the console to detect movement, in the walls of the living room and especially in the televisions that served in the game. It is in particular the Wii Sports title which has caused the most accidents: in addition to its presence in many households (more than 80 million titles sold), Wii Sports served as a showcase game for motion detection. Players could practice tennis, golf, bowling, baseball and boxing with their wiimote, and some of these sports required having the hand well hung on the controller: otherwise, the controller would fly away as a result of a movement a bit too lively! Even if to avoid this kind of accident, Nintendo had added a wrist strap on the controllers: a kind of fabric cord in which you had to pass your hand, linking the controller to the arm and which prevented any slippage.

Nintendo Switch Sports, a faithful heir

But now more than fifteen years later, the scourge is back! “The fault” partly due to the release of Nintendo Switch Sports, the sequel to Wii Sports but for Nintendo’s latest console. It uses the same concept as its elder: with the Joy-Cons, players can practice different sports including football, tennis, volleyball, badminton, bowling or even chambara (and golf is planned for this fall) . And inevitably, rebelote with accidents: Witness this clip from streamer 63man, who lost his screen after an unfortunate Joy-Con throw:

It will therefore have been necessary to wait barely a day to already see an accident linked to Nintendo Switch Sports (the clip Watch it in full on Twitch). Further proof that sixteen years after the release of Wii Sports, it does indeed serve as an heir: with the first sales figures which have fallen in Great Britain, Nintendo Switch Sports is starting off on a high.