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

Promo Images

Alternate Titles

• "Wii 스포츠" -- Korean spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Games referenced in movies
• Nintendo Selects releases
• Touch! Generations games
• Wii Sports series

User Reviews

A more then generous introductory free game to the Nintendo Wii	STU2 (72)
Hooray For The Pack-In Game!	Guy Chapman (2001)
Eh...	Bob the Stickman (299)

Critic Reviews

Le Geek	Sep, 2007	4.5 out of 5	90
GameZone	Nov 20, 2006	8.5 out of 10	85
4Players.de	Dec 12, 2006	80 out of 100	80
Gamervision	Feb 20, 2007	8 out of 10	80
PlayDevil	Apr 20, 2007		80
Nintendo Life	Nov 24, 2006		80
Edge	Nov 23, 2006	7 out of 10	70
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Nov 23, 2006	7 out of 10	70
Game Critics	Jan 31, 2007	6.5 out of 10	65
Gaming Nexus	Jan 12, 2007	C-	42

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Some qwiik questions	4	St. Martyne (3655) 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). As of September 30, 2015, according to publisher Nintendo, the game reached 82.72 million copies sold worldwide.

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.)