‘Wii Sports’ finally added to Nintendo Music: “Absolute perfection”

13 November, 2024

Gamers play Wii Sports.

Nintendo’s own music streaming platform has finally added the fan-favourite soundtrack from Wii Sports.

Released in 2006 alongside the Nintendo Wii, Wii Sports was designed to introduce players to the motion-sensitive Wiimote controller with a number of virtual sports. Its simple gameplay made it a family favourite racking up over 86million sales while the charming soundtrack, composed by Nintendo legend Kazumi Totaka, has become a cult classic. There’s even a bootleg vinyl edition of the Wii Sports music.

However to make listening to it easier, Nintendo has finally added 30 tracks from Wii Sports to its growing Nintendo Music library. “About fucking time,” wrote one fan on Reddit. “Love that they are adding music so fast. Nintendo is FEEDING us,” said another. “Now to disassociate for up to 90 minutes at a time,” added a third.

Nintendo Music launched last month and featured 24 different soundtracks, including Super Mario Bros., The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, Super Mario Galaxy, Nintendogs and Metroid Prime. They seem to be adding one new album a week, with new content going live every Monday.

However some fans believe that’s not quick enough. “There’s hundreds of first party Nintendo games and 1-2 a week for 52 weeks means you could wait years for a game you want to listen to the soundtrack for,” said one player while others have worked out that at this rate, it’ll take almost 80 years for every Nintendo soundtrack to make it to the streaming platform.

Nintendo Music is available as part of the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service while the app also lets you extend and loop individual tracks. It comes shortly after Nintendo released Alarmo, an alarm clock that wakes you up to sounds from various video games.

In other news, Palworld developers have claimed Nintendo wants the game shut down while the ongoing copyright infringement legal battle is sorted out. It’s also been revealed that Nintendo are suing them for £25,000 in damages but the court case could end up costing Pocketpair millions.

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