Why Mario Sports are Dying on Switch 

Aw come on, Mario & Sonic WOG 2010 on the DS was fire! It has an adventure mode, with an overworld, and a plot, and sidequests, and collectibles... All the games in the series should've been that!

I feel the same way about recent Mario sports games. The free update model has hurt these games tremendously.

it’s so weird to see how much these games sell despite having little effort put in to improve them (or at least having them loaded with content when they launch), and yet we can’t blame the casual gamers who consistently buy these - they don’t know any better, or don’t care. it’s frustrating 🤦🏼‍♂️

my man did not just diss mario and sonic 2010 & 2012 those are the best games on the wii

The Shinzo Abe intermission made this the best thing you've ever posted

It seems like Nintendo genuinely doesn't care about these games anymore, which is a shame since there's so much potential for creativity and fun. And the fact that they're selling so well is just salt in the wound. Thankfully Switch Sports will probably never outsell Resort

Your content is incredible! This was a sad look at the Mario sports downfall, made even sadder by their financial success 😂 Also maybe it's nostalgia but the Mario and Sonic 2008/2010 games are really fun imo. And they have Daisy!

"10." "?" "10 years of crappy Mario sports games, and we will let you release Golden Sun 4." "Ok."

What happened to Battle League was just wrong, man. FINALLY a new Mario Strikers and it's gutted by Modern Nintendo's complacency. A spinoff series with so much charm, identity and spirit just half-assedly shat out onto the house money maker with promises of making the 60% finished game into an 80% finished game months down the line, and then it's just abandoned and left to rot. Makes me wonder why people are even looking forward to the next sports title, that's a level of faith I'll never understand .

The fact that these games sell well just makes it so much worse. It would be one thing if these games were selling poorly, and Nintendo used the "finish it later" strategy to reduce development cost and try to increase the game's longevity. It's more annoying when they are doing it for no apparent reason. I thought Nintendo was done making games as anemic as Ultra Smash when the Switch turned out to be successful, but here we are with Strikers Battle League. It is a damper on their multiplayer games. I've complained about the Switch not having a new Mario Kart, but if they were to bring back F-Zero or make a new racing game in the meantime, my immediate expectation is "it will be lackluster at launch, and they are going to trickle other updates over time". The Switch is touted as a golden age for Nintendo, but stuff like this is why I disagree.

It's not much of a secret. They're lacking in creativity and innovation in arcade sports game design. Mario Kart is a spinoff too, but every game they're pushing the limits of imagination and the hardware and somehow still running the game at 60fps. The other spin off games have become cash grabs at worse, and lackluster at best. Certainly not worth the same $60 that bought me Mario Kart 8 and BOTW.

A great video but I must say that Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games was very fun tho I should probably revisit it.

Im sorry but the Mario and Sonic games were NOT always shitty, the Wii had the best games, same for the winter game on the DS, when it came to the Wii u, 3ds and switch, they became way more basic and boring

Mario and sonic games have been alright imo

I feel like the Mario and Sonic games are seriously underrated especially with the ds era the adventure mode in 2010 I love it so much fun some missions are really difficult but overall it’s a blast I can fathom how the switch sports are really underselling cause we’re so happy with strikers after 15 long ass years but lack of characters the Ai is not very challenging I think charged on Wii has it better with better quality but I’ll give it one thing the gear was nice feature not any other strikers games have it I did like that improved until it first launched with no dlc Wtf next level games why remove daisy until dlc that’s so dumb I mean she’s in the game but to be a dlc character I think it’s her first game she was a dlc it’s like nobody else cares about her character wise or Nintendo once again is messed up every game not even updates can redeem themselves

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is the best Mario sports game by default simply because it had all content at launch and didn't have any updates!

I think if you buy sports games for 60 dollars that's your own fault. Just like it's my own fault for buying Pikmin 3 Deluxe for 60 dollars at release and now it's like 50% off everywhere.

Holy shit every time I watch your videos I am reminded of how incredibly good your content is! Keep it up and I'm sure you'll find success sooner or later :)

Nintendos new update model has literally been killing most of their legacy franchises

Ain't no way blud really did Mario & Sonic dirty like that 💀 (Well, besides Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016, those weren't very good)

The same thing is happening with Pokemon but nobody wants to openly admit it lest they be hounded by Pokemon fans

I have less nostalgia for previous entries but I fuck with Aces and Super Rush, at least as someone who got a switch a couple months ago lol. However, definitely understand why folks who paid full price at launch wouldn't be fond of them, although the updates being free always makes me less kerfuffled about the practice. Just odd they do it so often with these games specifically. Even i decided to use a $20 gift card and some gold points on Aces after looking at how it compared in terms of things to do with Power Tennis. But I will say, yeah the actual gameplay of both are very addicting and very fun. Its not like I'm a golf fan or anything, but the speed golf and the battle mode are always fun, and the unique mechanics to Aces i find engaging enough. Plus everybody has mad drip in these ones and Tan Daisy bonus points. But yeah, I doubt they plan for these games to be played for hours on end by little to no social life schmucks like us, so to them just a small trot in a story mode to act as a tutorial and unlock shit is enough for single player action and i mean i don't blame them. Anytime i think of Mario sports, i see games primarily played during family gatherings or just casual fun play sessions between siblings/friends. So I think its more a rising disconnect with a specific sect of the audience than anything really super deep or conniving on the dev's end. Except with Battle League, now that one is an atrocious example. This one i feel more strongly towards cause i do have a lot of nostalgia for charged, and its crazy how aside from the graphics, this game is worse in almost every way imaginable. I get that very few if any of the people that worked on the first 2 strikers were on this one, and no hate to any of them but man... I waited 14 years for a comeback and it's just embarrassing even AFTER updates. They only got 2 new characters at all, and didn't even manage to bring back every veteran as we're missing Petey and technically many previous sidekicks since they took the time to make Toad and Birdo standalone. The stages are nothing but visual changes, the original charm and personality of the series is heavily reigned in. Either this new team leaned too far in trying to differentiate themselves from the first 2 or Nintendo was really breathing down their necks to sanitize it a bit which idk so much about after learning from the guy behind the first 2 games that Nintendo were the ones that encouraged the original attitide in the first place since they didn't want it to be another happy go lucky sports series. Maybe views changed, but man. If a new one happens hopefully they can capture that energy again and of course add actual content beyond armor. Also Mario and Sonic Olympics are great, you missed me with that one lol. Granted i missed out on London and Rio but the first couple i loved as a kid and have been enjoying the latest one. Not perfect but good times for what they are and the newest story mode is very lovingly made i feel. Im sure past ones are too from clips I've seen.

3:14 earthbound beginnings music here is good

aw yeah another banger video from voyan

Chris Pratt main series Mario Pickleball game when???

Excellent Review

Please talk about Mario Golf World Tour. It frankly deserves more attention. I even made an entire Reddit post on r/Nintendo gushing about it.

the reports about a delay regarding severance season two really concern me

Mario Sports games are just getting lazy. No cutscenes and just basic things you can do over and over on pass consoles

Everyone that didn't have a Gamecube growing up or are just too young has heard how good the spin off games are. Now that the Switch has sold super well they all want to check out the hype we've been feeding them for years.

Holy fuck I was not ready for the "playing with yourself" joke. 😂

this is a good video and i love paper mario music

Mario kart: hello? 😡

i agree i still want a new mario baseball but i am ready to be disappointed

Because they’re bad games. Mario Baseball is gonna suck because they core gameplay for both originals is damn near perfect and they’re gonna add some shitty gimmick to ruin it while also making all your players generic characters because they don’t feel like adding characters.

Based. Destroy the sport games. People shouldn't be able to enjoy things I do not like.

6:07 Wow, did someone say Game Freak?

This was the dark souls of mario sports game reviews

Sega made better sports games than Nintendo

What point was he trying to make at 1:10?

Mario sluggers was good

Honestly Mario & Sonic at Rio on the DS was a very fun game.

If they fixed the economy in mario strikers I'd enjoy it more

I agree but come on mario sports mix wasn't that bad

The Mario sports games on Switch are actually not that financially successful. The sales are dropping off a cliff over time, even according to the charts you used in this video, because even casuals are catching onto the poor quality of these games. Being the best-selling in the series is not impressive either, because the previous best-selling games were on the N64, GameCube and 3DS - systems with a fraction of the install base of the Switch.

Woah woah woah what is that Dreamcast diss thrown in there for for no reason? This guy is trying to lose half his audience over here.

on the whole i feel nintendo has just sat back and given up with doing anything this generation thats actually for the fans

honestly they should just bring mario sports mix to the switch.

mario sports mix is good

Bro Mario Tennis aces is good

i also think the games themselves are just 10 times worse in terms of gameplay (except aces) super rush is so dumbed down it’s crazy with absolutely garbage and barren course design and one of the worst single player campaigns I have ever seen battle league is so generic and also dumbed down with literally 0 unique stadiums and less stadiums than the gamecube game (all of them are the same and way too small)

I can tell you why- they're terrible. There you go, end of video. I bought Mario Tennis Virtual Boy this year and it's my favorite Mario Tennis game, period. Even beating out Mario Tennis 64 and GBC, two games that have Nostalgia Bias, Recency Bias, and Not Being on The Virtual Boy Bias on their side. I can totally like games that are new to me as long as they aren't terrible.

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The games are still good, but they lack content. Still, better than FIFA.

I kinda wonder if the next console will be Wii U'd once all the casuals go "Uh, why should I buy a new console? I have a Wii" "Because 4K!" "I don't care I have a wii" "Oh the wii stopped working guess I'll play games on the phone I already own" Like I kinda expect that with te next console, but will Nintendo learn that you can't rely on casuals or will they SEGA this bitch

Mario sports games were never good

The only good mario sports game is the first strikers game fight me

Mario Tennis Aces was great...

The games are perfectly fine. They get the job done. They put some undercooked spin to it or some side mods and bam half backed and it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t that memorable as well.

Toadstool Tour was the absolute worst, besides Shadow the Hedgehog, I think that was the only game I ever returned.