Nintendo Switch Sports Reviews

Nintendo Switch Sports is ranked in the 44th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
M3
Top Critic
May 11, 2022

The Nintendo Switch Sport is the Switch's answer to Wii Sports, the phenomenon that astounded an entire world over 15 years ago. With simple controls and mini-games built for multiple players, it's a high-level family party. For a while anyway, then comes the lack of content and gameplay depth and gives pyspunka to the fun.

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3 / 5.0
Apr 27, 2022

Nintendo Switch Sports is not a bad game, but it definitely doesn’t offer anything radically new or revolutionary, and it doesn’t provide much to keep me playing for more than a couple of hours on occasion. I think there’s a lot of potential here, though, so I hope that Nintendo plans to update it with additional content regularly in order to keep players coming back for more.

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May 5, 2022

While everything appears like an improvement, at its core, Nintendo Switch Sports fails to evolve the series.

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6 / 10.0
Apr 27, 2022

Nintendo Switch Sports lives up to its namesake in that the sports are both the star of the show, and the entirety of the experience.

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Ian Howarth
Top Critic
6 / 10
May 11, 2022

I'm aware that this review may come off as particularly negative even though I've really had a lot of fun with the game so far.

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6 / 10.0
May 10, 2022

Nintendo Switch Sports is an overpriced compilation of mini-games aimed for children. It is also very polished but also sorely lacking content and even with golf, it won’t be enough to justify the lack of effort in this product. It is amusing to go online and to rob children of getting a victory, but even that becomes hollow when there are so few ways to make it compelling.

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6 / 10 stars
May 7, 2022

Nintendo Switch Sports is a great way to satisfy any urge to play motion control games. Unfortunately, it doesn't make any effort at being more than that.

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6 / 10.0
Apr 27, 2022

Unfortunately, Nintendo missed the opportunity to offer a unique experience to Nintendo Switch owners.

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INDIANTVCZ
Ondřej Svoboda
6 / 10
Jun 10, 2022

If you're looking for one-afternoon recreation or want to liven up your home party, the Nintendo Switch Sports is the best choice.

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55 / 100
May 10, 2022

Despite the prospect of fun multiplayer moments, there's just too little content in Nintendo Switch Sports, and the minigames that it does offer have been done better elsewhere in Nintendo's own library.

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May 16, 2022

"It's a sprint, not a marathon."

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May 17, 2022

It's possible that Nintendo will improve Nintendo Switch Sports with future updates, but that remains to be seen. It's known that Nintendo Switch Sports is adding golf in a future update, but otherwise Nintendo's post-launch plans for the game remain a mystery. There's a lot of work to be done to make Nintendo Switch Sports even half as fun as its predecessors, and as it stands now, it's a game that Switch owners can safely skip.

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4 / 10.0
May 4, 2022

This game should have been released 5 years ago as a free bonus to the console itself, just like Wii Sports years ago. As a stand-alone game for a full price, Nintendo Switch Sports simply doesn’t cut it.

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3 / 10.0
May 23, 2022

The price point is unreasonable, the games on display don't have nearly enough new content, and what is new has some charm but ultimately lacks staying power.

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Recommended
May 3, 2022

Ultimately, though, these games are so refined, and delivered with such odd, coffee-shop-and-library charm, that it doesn't matter how you play. My daughter is of the age where she completely missed the Wii, so when this new game arrived and we started moving the furniture around, she didn't have a clue what we were up to. But that afternoon we must have played together for hours, with breaks for when a diving header animation made her laugh so much she needed her breath back. The whole thing was intoxicating.

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Recommended
Apr 27, 2022

Nintendo Switch Sports offers some great moments and is an entertaining follow-up that will not only whet the appetite of Wii Sports fans but also anyone who enjoys gaming with their friends.

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GameXplain
Top Critic
Liked
Apr 27, 2022
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No Recommendation / Blank
May 13, 2022

The Switch has already made a name for itself as the definitive console for local multiplayer, and Nintendo Switch Sports only reinforces that fact.

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No Recommendation / Blank
May 25, 2022

Despite Nintendo Switch Sports being a very average party game, it does open up more with its online mode. For the most part, it is a fun and nostalgic romp offering nicely-upgraded visuals and well-implemented motion controls, but the solo and party play leave a lot to be desired – relying on nostalgia over fun to power the game’s value. The online mode, however, does a much better job of adding value for players to enjoy. Alas, the mode lacks too many features needed to make the online portion worthy of the cost of entry. Ultimately, Nintendo Switch Sports is relegated to the realm of only being ‘sometimes relevant’ in situations of extreme boredom or when friends and family need placating. It could have been great with more content, variety, and solo options, but settles for being average in almost every sense of the word.

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Caution
May 12, 2022

Unfortunately, although Nintendo has teased added content (with Golf coming first this summer), at the moment Switch Sports seems to offer only the essentials. The absence of even a simple single-player campaign hurts the game, depriving it, among other things, of a little personality that seems so much in need. For now, I would highly recommend it only as a party game that really comes to life and shows its quality with friends, whether online or not. In other words, it is closer to Wii Sports than to Wii Sports Resort.

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