Wii Sports Club

How do we not have a thread for this yet?

Here's all the info you need with a very good Iwata asks: http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wiiu/wii-sports-club/0/0

(Especially those videos )

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I didn't know a lot about this until yesterday but the addition of online play & the Miiverse integration has made my mind up & I'm looking forward to it.

One question though, if you buy tennis/bowling on day one (not a 24 hour pass) will you be charged for golf & boxing separately when they release?

I am very interested in this if and only if they change the pricing structure. Right now, it's going to end up being something stupid if I want all the games, which I probably will.

Yeah, I'm pretty much with balla on this one. If they give us a reasonable way to own the whole lot, I'd probably go for that. I don't know if I'd ever even end up playing it, but it'd be nice to have it.

I'm also echoing what Balladeer said. I'm preposterously excited about this (seeing as I own three copies for the original Wii Sports and haven't bothered played it much in five years), but I can see myself just taking advantage of the free trials for the time being. At even a fiver a game I'd have probably downloaded them all, but £8.99 is tough going for a single downloadable minigame when stuff like ZombiU and Assassin's Creed III is just a couple of pounds more from the same shop.

Ditto to Balla again... but enough of Pokémon (arf). There's got to be some reduction for buying all the games, hasn't there? Not that I want the baseball again, mind.

I thought Baseball was great! It's the Boxing that I'll try before I buy. I couldn't get my head round Bowling or Golf with the MotionPlus controls in Wii Sports Resort though. I was rubbish at both of those.

Same as everyone else it works out at £44.95 for all 5 games, not buying for that. Give me a deal for all 5 and I will buy.

The Cappuccino Kid wrote:

I thought Baseball was great! It's the Boxing that I'll try before I buy. I couldn't get my head round Bowling or Golf with the MotionPlus controls in Wii Sports Resort though. I was rubbish at both of those.

Pretty much this. I never did learn how to hit splitters, but I loved Baseball simply for the joy of having an all-Mii team. Boxing was meh, but I'd still want it, just because.

Hmm... Is this going to be the game/app/whatever that gives the Mii creation on Wii U a point?

There was a stage in Baseball where I couldn't make progress up the professionalism ladder and I couldn't see why at the time, so I stopped playing. Loved the Boxing because it was silly fun but I didn't get to grips with the golf (though my Dad is a professional on my Wii!).

I used to thoroughly enjoy the baseball. But similar to most of its fans, I only really liked seeing all my Miis turn up.

Balladeath wrote:

Hmm...  Is this going to be the game/app/whatever that gives the Mii creation on Wii U a point?

Nintendoland used Miis and I thought that was ace!

Did it use your Miis, though? The collection of dictators and actors and playwrights that you/I had on your Mii in the background?

So they are definitely charging for each individual game then? It didn't seem like that when they explaining it in the Iwata asks.

Anyhow I'd probably only end up with Tennis, Bowling & Golf.

I'd probably get it if they ever do a boxed release but as a download title this will barely get played and I won't get my moneys worth from any game.

There's some things I like about this.

Golf will be like the E3 Wii U demo (ball on the gamepad at your feet... swing with wiimote.)
Anyone that opted in to Spotpass with 1.3GB free space, will get the demo automatically.

I get the feeling this is Nintendo experimenting with new business models.

Good to see Nintendo boarding the Banter Bus. 
I'm really liking the sound of this though so I think I'll at least get one or two of them, Bowling and Golf being the most likely although Tennis looks much better with MotionPlus.

So this is a flashier Wii Sports with online play? I'm sold.

We've got to do some online multiplayer on this on the 7th November.

I'm really interested in seeing how the original sports play with MotionPlus controls, very differently I suspect.

fronkhead wrote:

We've got to do some online multiplayer on this on the 7th November.

Count me in for that!  

Hurrah! I'm really looking forward to playing something that doesn't take itself so seriously with everyone else again. Haven't really done that since the Wii/DS/DSiWare titles we played (Mario Kart, Monster Hunter, Sujin Taisen, Bomberman etc.)

Fronky will be changing his Mii to Funky Kong specially, won't he?  

If you guy's are playing online then I might buy bowling, tennis and boxing if there isn't a deal with all five.

I am also up for some online shenanigans, maybe perhaps in a Skype session too?

Ooh ooh ooh - guys - guys - can I join in?

As these games require some physical co-ordination, I'm crap at them.

andyman949 wrote:

I'd probably get it if they ever do a boxed release but as a download title this will barely get played and I won't get my moneys worth from any game.

This. Given the popularity/impact of Wii Sports, not having a boxed version on store shelves feels like a missed opportunity to me.

Iwata "doesn't deny" that a boxed version will be released in the future.

(From the recent Investor Q+A.)

It seems that they haven't completed all the sports yet, so instead of waiting for all 6, they're releasing them like this.