{"id":12560,"date":"2022-05-11T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/uncategorized\/df-retro-on-nintendos-motion-controlled-sports-series-from-2006-to-today\/"},"modified":"2022-05-11T16:30:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T16:30:48","slug":"df-retro-on-nintendos-motion-controlled-sports-series-from-2006-to-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/features\/df-retro-on-nintendos-motion-controlled-sports-series-from-2006-to-today\/","title":{"rendered":"DF Retro on Nintendo&#8217;s motion-controlled Sports series &#8211; from 2006 to today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/df-retro-on-nintendos-motion-controlled-sports-series-from-2006-to-today_627be4b8378a8.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/df-retro-on-nintendos-motion-controlled-sports-series-from-2006-to-today_627be4b8378a8.jpeg 690w, https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/df-retro-on-nintendos-motion-controlled-sports-series-from-2006-to-today_627be4b8378a8-300x150.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nNintendo upended the video game industry in 2006 with the release of the Wii, a console that didn&#8217;t even try to compete with the high-end power of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, instead concentrating on an immediately compelling concept: motion control. Sealing the deal was the inclusion of an irresistible pack-in game &#8211; Wii Sports -key in making the Wii a global phenomenon. Can Nintendo capture that magic again? Perhaps not, but the recent arrival of Nintendo Switch Sports is a fascinating release, a clear evolution in many ways, but not quite the finished article we might have hoped for.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/digitalfoundry-2022-nintendo-switch-sports-does-the-wii-sports-magic-still-hold-up-today\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DF Retro on Nintendo&#8217;s motion-controlled Sports series &#8211; from 2006 to\u00a0today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12563,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12560\/revisions\/12563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}