I’m stunned at how excited I am for Nintendo Switch Sports Resort. I plan to 100% this game, which is not something I would have said two weeks ago. I’m still not entirely thrilled with the sports lineup – I would trade Table Tennis and Volleyball for things like Swordplay, Baseball, or Frisbee – but what is here is shaping up to be really fantastic. Don’t sleep on this one: I think it’s going to be an enormous improvement on Nintendo Switch Sports and a fantastic return to one of my favorite settings in Nintendo history. I’ll see you on Wuhu Island.
Nintendo Switch Sports Resort takes us back to my favorite vacation destination for a new era of motion-controlled sports action, and I was so happy to be back. During a demo at San Diego Comic Con, I got to try four of Resort’s 12 sports: archery, bowling, power cruising (which is a trademark-free way of saying jet skiing), and thumb wrestling, which Nintendo’s Yoshiaki Koizumi famously demonstrated for us in last month’s Nintendo Direct.