Meta’s mixed-reality attempt at a Wii Sports knockoff is coming

Nov 26, 2024 04:17 AM - 1 week ago 16070

A caller crippled called Home Sports is coming to the Meta Quest 3 and 3S on December 11th, and from its artistic to its music, this $19.99 title is intelligibly trying to beryllium the Wii Sports (or Nintendo Switch Sports if you like) for mixed reality.

The Home Sports Logo (top) and the Wii Sports (bottom) logo compared. Both names characteristic a bluish gradient going from a darker colour to a lighter colour from the bottommost near to apical right. Both person smaller matter connected top, pinch SPORTS successful large letters connected the bottom.

That logo looks very familiar.

Images: Meta / Nintendo

Like Nintendo’s simplistic mobility control-based sports series, Home Sports offers respective games: hockey, badminton, pickleball, mini-golf, and bowling. It’s playable solo and multiplayer, wherever your Meta avatar represents you successful a match. Meta says the crippled tin accommodate to your play space, but it besides uses the Quest boundaryless mode for those pinch entree to wide-open spaces.

A blatant knockoff of Nintendo’s Sports series it whitethorn be, but I’m not mad.

It’ll beryllium difficult to replicate the important constituent of a group of group holding Wii remotes and watching each different neglect astatine bowling. However, this could beryllium a bully time, assuming that developer Revolution Games different sewage the consciousness correct and you person capable headsets to spell around.

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