I played Wii Sports Resort last month. It’s awesome. I think Wii Motion Plus is awesome, and the next step in motion control games. And yet, I fire up the original Wii Sports today, while researching a story I’m working on, and I’m still blown away by how “magical” the experience is; how responsive bowling, tennis, and to a lesser extent, golf controls are, even in light of Motion Plus.
As a testament to its enjoyfulness (sic), I played longer than I needed to. It was a reminder that the original Wii Sports still holds up to this day—nay, it’s still an awesome game—one you can’t keep coming back to. That said, I will be shocked if it’s not widely regarded as the best, greatest, most influencial game of this generation. Being designed by Miyamoto himself, that should come as no surprise.
Wii Sports is a great game and an even greater liar. I went bowling a couple of weeks ago and I sucked. Barely cracked 140 more than once.
Obviously it’s get remembered because it was first, but it’s looking like Resort is going to one up it pretty much every way.
It’ll never win if core gamers have any say.
Remember, “It’s just a tech demo!”.
I’m so tired of hearing that. I love Wii sports, and I’m not afraid to say it, I love Wii Play too!
Wii Sports has infinite replay value, great variety, FANTASTIC controls, surprising depth, and it was 100% free.
I don’t see any reason why it won’t make it up there quite high on ‘best game ever’ lists (it already has).
It seemed obvious to me that Wii Sports was this generation’s “killer app”, the one game that enters the general public consciousness and actually moves consoles. In importance, it’s the equivalent of Super Mario Bros or Grand Theft Auto.
Nintendo should have included all these Sport games with Resort with update using the wiimotion .
I think other than the game lacking depth, it was amazing
Wii Sports has little depth and gets old quickly. Game’s like Wii Sports revolve around replay value. Unless it’s the first game you’ve ever played (OH DOH HOH) you won’t be very interested in it for very long.
Go ahead and flame me. My opinions won’t change.
Wii Sports is still a great game that I still play!
Wii Sports is a good game, but I only played it for a week before getting games like Super Mario Galaxy, Super Paper Mario, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. After getting those games and others, I don’t think I’ve played it once, and this one over a year ago. Those games kill Wii Sports.
Wii Sports is still the best use of motion control on the Wii and it was the first bloody game!
Saying that though, Wii Sports Resort could top it…
I don’t agree. Altough I thought wii sports was fun, especially with a few friends over, the motions controls were in the end quite disapointing for me. Tennis and bowling was fairly good, but golf, boxing and baseball was just an unresponsive mess. Frustrating and boring. I’ve had better times and more replay value from free flash games on the web. I’ve yet to try motion plus but I really hope that it will bring what I thought I was getting when I first bought the Wii.
I threw in Wii Sports and I was amazed all over again at how revolutionary it was the day it came out. The training modes are amazing. The golf and bowling are my faves. It’s amazing how it’s sooo good and also sooo accessible
Yes, Wii Sports is the greatest motion control on Wii. It basically birthed every type of motion controls you’ll find on the consoles games.