Nintendo Switch Sports

April 29, 2022

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In Volume 5 of Nintendo’s “Ask the Developers” series, director Yoshikazu Yamashita said development began as a request from Nintendo veteran Yoshiaki Koizumi sometime after the Nintendo Switch was released to the public.

The developers had trouble implementing brand-new sports into the game as their spiritual predecessors had all their ideas implemented into them.

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The designs for the playable characters went through many design changes during development. The team considered having no arms or legs in a similar vein to Wii Sports. Another idea that was considered was designing “college student characters…with a theme of intercollegiate sports.”

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Concept art reveal two stages were in development. One resembled “a place where intercollegiate sports are played as well as a setting that looks like an ancient Olympian stadium,” art director Junji Morii described in Nintendo’s “Ask the Developers” series.