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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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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.
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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