Nintendo Switch Sports finally getting golf

Nintendo has announced that its Wii Sports sequel will finally have a golf mode added to it, after it was delayed earlier this year

Nintendo announced today that Nintendo Switch Sports will finally be updated to include the addition of a golf mode, after it was initially intended to launch earlier this year, but got delayed.

Nintendo Switch Sports, which launched in May, was announced to be getting a golf game mode shortly before the game was released. At the time Nintendo said it would be released in Q3, but it was pushed into the holiday season in a mid-September Nintendo Direct.

Today, the company announced that the update adding golf will be released next week, on November 29. The golf mode will come with 21 holes from Wii Sports, and support up to 8 players locally and online. It also comes with an online survival mode, where the person with the most strokes on each hole is eliminated.

⛳ Get into the swing of things when Golf arrives in the next free #NintendoSwitchSports update on 29/11!

Eight-player Survival Golf, returning holes from the Wii Sports series, and more await! pic.twitter.com/HClGpHUlAH

— Nintendo AU NZ (@NintendoAUNZ) November 22, 2022

Nintendo Switch Sports is a long-awaited successor to the Wii Sports series, the first game of which is one of the highest-selling games of all time, and the best-selling single-platform game of all time. Switch Sports has not been quite as successful, selling just 4.84 million copies as of June 30, 2022.

Upon launch, Nintendo Switch Sports featured three sports from previous games, tennis, bowling, and swordplay, which was renamed to chambara. It also featured an additional three sports modes that were new to the series, soccer, volleyball, and badminton. The game features an overhauled player avatar system, called Sportsmates, which are implemented alongside Miis.

An update to the game in July 2022 added leg strap support for all of its soccer modes, using the leg strap previously featured in Ring Fit Adventure.

Nintendo Switch Sports has been much less successful than its predecessor Wii Sports, selling less than a tenth of the copies. Picture: Nintendo

In other Nintendo news, the recently released Pokemon Scarlet and Violet arrived “buggy and broken”, with players criticising the games for poor performance, bugs, and glitches. The new games are the third set of Pokemon games released within 12 months, and some players have speculated that the rushed release schedule for the series is to blame for the performance issues.

Pokemon isn’t the only series to face game-breaking bugs and glitches lately. An Overwatch 2 hero was disabled over a game-breaking exploit earlier this month, when it was discovered that hero Mei’s Ice Wall ability could be used to push players out of bounds and offer an unfair advantage.

Blizzard, the developer of the Overwatch series, was set to fix the issue on the 15th, but the Overwatch 2 bug fix patch was delayed at the last second, after even more critical issues were discovered with the patch.

Written by Oliver Brandt on behalf of GLHF.