Wood, pennants, sand traps and putter… After months of waiting, the owners of the game Switch Sports for the Nintendo Switch console are finally getting ready to take their first steps on the green. On November 28, golf will become the seventh sport offered with the title.
Launched on April 29, the game Switch Sports already had six sports: volleyball, badminton, bowling, tennis, soccer and chanbara, a martial art for which swords are used.
This selection had left the followers of the successful title Wii Sports hungry, especially people who enjoyed his golf game.
Those times will soon be over, with Nintendo announcing the rollout of a free update including the sport on November 28th.
Players will be able to follow a 21-hole course, modeled on the one offered on the Wii console.
The big news: a survival golf game mode in which up to eight people participate live. The one who hits the most shots to get the ball in is eliminated at each hole.
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Golf games are especially popular on the Switch console, with titles like Cursed to Golf, Golf Story et What the Golf. Nintendo has also added the original Mario Golf title, released for the Nintendo 64 system in 1999, to the Nintendo Switch Online subscription with the expansion for classic games. It adds to the new game in the series, Mario Golf: Super Rushlaunched in June 2021.
This major update, originally scheduled for fall, is the second Nintendo has rolled out for its game. Switch Sports. The first aimed to improve movement controls in soccer using the Joy-Con controller, attached to a leg.