Nintendo has announced that it will be releasing a new iteration of Wii Sports for the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo Switch Sports releases in April.

The game is a new iteration of Wii Sports and builds upon the 2006 original title by bringing back some of the already existing games and improving upon them.

Nintendo Switch Sports will include the sports games soccer, volleyball, bowling, tennis, badminton and chambara. In addition, the game be getting game via a free game update this fall. This brings the total number of sports games to seven.

According to the announcement, the controls are intuitive just like its predecessor Wii Sports: motion controls to swing and kick - although this time with the Joy Con controller instead of the clunky Wii Remote from 2006.

Perhaps the most notable improvement for the existing sports games is an improved version of bowling: players can now play simultaneously without having to wait for turns.

An online Play Test event is also scheduled to take place on February 18 - 20, 2022, for which registrations open on February 15, 2022. The Play Test event is said to be used to evaluate various technical aspects and help improve the quality of the game by testing out online random matches for tennis, bowling, and chambara.

Nintendo Switch Sports will release on Friday, April 29, 2022, for Nintendo Switch.