Wii Sports (Wii)

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Description

Wii Sports is a compilation of small sports games designed to be a showcase for the Wii's motion sensitive controller. Each game has several practice modes, and there is a Fitness Age feature to measure your daily improvement at all games.

• Tennis: A game of doubles. Swing the remote like a racket to play.


• Baseball: The computer automates the running and fielding. The player either pitches or bats.


• Golf: Swing the remote like a golf club to play through the included 9 holes.


• Bowling: Play a regular 10 frame game of bowling by swinging the remote like you're rolling a bowling ball.


• Boxing: Punch, defend, or lean, with the remote and nunchuk used to control both in-game hands.

Rather than realistic characters, each game is played using Miis, the simple characters that can be created from within the Wii's Mii Channel.

Screenshots

Part of the Following Groups

• Games referenced in movies
• Touch! Generations games

User Reviews

A more then generous introductory free game to the Nintendo Wii	STU2 (72)
Hooray For The Pack-In Game!	Guy Chapman (1744)
Eh...	Bob the Stickman (290)

The Press Says

Gamervision	Feb 20, 2007	8 out of 10	80
Retroage	Oct 08, 2008	8 out of 10	80
N-Zone	Feb 06, 2007	78 out of 100	78
VicioJuegos.com	Dec 04, 2006	78 out of 100	78
PAL Gaming Network (PALGN)	Dec 07, 2006	7.5 out of 10	75
FZ	Dec 11, 2006		70
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Nov 23, 2006	7 out of 10	70
Meristation	Dec 04, 2006	7 out of 10	70
Binary Joy	Jun 16, 2007		70
HonestGamers	Nov 24, 2006	4 out of 10	40

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Some qwiik questions	4	St. Martyne (3562) Jul 21, 2008

Trivia

1001 Video Games

Wii Sports appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

References

• The 9 holes of golf Wii Sports includes are taken from Nintendo's NES game Golf.
• The white building in the background of the tennis game is Nintendo's Japanese headquarters in Kyoto.

References to the game

In the movie Tropic Thunder Matthew McConaughey's character can be seen playing Wii Sports' tennis and bowling games. It also appears in the 2009 movie (500) Days of Summer, the 2010 movie Somewhere. and Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

Sales

In 2009 it was announced that Wii Sports had officially become the biggest selling Nintendo game, outdoing Super Mario Bros. in sales in just two and a half years. This was due to the fact that the game is bundled with the console and is counted every time a console is bought. However, by the end of 2008, Japan had sold over 3.2 million copies of the game (it is not bundled with the system in Japan).

Awards

• 4Players
  • 2006 – #3 Biggest Wii Game of the Year
  • 2006 – #2 Biggest Surprise of the Year
  • 2006 – #3 Most Innovative Game Design of the Year
  • 2006 – #3 Best Party Game of the Year
• BAFTA
  • 2007 - Winner in the Sports; Innovation; Gameplay; Multiplayer; Casual; and Strategy and Simulation categories.
  • 2007 - Nominee as Best Game
• Golden Joystick Awards
• 2007 - Family Game of the Year

Information also contributed by Apogee IV, Big John WV, FatherJack, Johia S. Slone and Patrick Bregger

Related Web Sites

• Iwata Asks - Wii Sports (NCL president Satoru Iwata interviews Katsuya Eguchi, Zenichi Yamashita & Takayuki Shimamura of Nintendo EAD's Software Development Group No. 2 & Keizo Ota of Nintendo EAD's Design Technology Group.)