Nintendo Switch Sports debuts on April 29.
Nintendo Switch Sports debuted on April 29.
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Hands-on: Nintendo Switch Sports runs with the joyful play of Wii Sports

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo Switch Sports is the successor to the most mainstream sports video game of all time, Wii Sports. And Nintendo hopes this version will make gamers and non-gamers alike get excited about playing sports on the Switch.

This could be a big title for the Switch, which Nintendo said in February sold more than 103.54 million units as of December 31, a huge number of units since March 2017. The Switch milestone meant that it surpassed the Wii’s previous record of 101.63 million consoles sold. And Wii Sports was a huge accelerant for the Wii.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.