Switch Sports Resort Is An Overly Familiar Vacation

It's hard to overstate the impact of Wii Sports on Nintendo's fortunes. A simple motion-controlled game concept became a cultural phenomenon and arguably pulled the company back from the brink of a flagging game business. Switch Sports Resort is now the fifth game in the franchise, and while it still finds some depth in surprising places, the novelty is also wearing thin. I got an extended hands-on with Switch Sports Resort, trying out a total of eight sports and activities from the selection, and giving me a good sampling of how this next sports game includes both competitive sporting events and free-roaming exploration around Wuhu Island. About half of the events were returning from previous Sports titles, and the others were new for this incarnation. So while there was a good sampling of new activities, my brief time with them prevented me from answering my biggest question: How much mileage will they all have collectively? Switch Sports Resort prop plane Three of the events we tried were focused on exploring Wuhu in a mostly freeform fashion with a time limit: Skateboarding, Prop Plane, and Power Cruising (aka jet skiing). All of these used the Joy-Con controllers in novel way…