Talk:Wii Sports Club

Notability for its own article
I think this game is different enough for its own article. It easily passes notablility guidelines. There are already 8 in-depth, independent, and recognised as reliable sources presented in the article, and this topic has a large amount of coverage.  Dark Toon Link Heyaah! 11:34, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I also created a DYK nomination for it.  Dark Toon Link Heyaah! 09:55, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Just going to throw my hat into the ring and support the article. There's already a fair number of sources that are or can be used out there; as more games are released in this series the article will only grow since every game will be given more attention than it would have as a bundled item. Plus, it might be viewed as disruptive if we try to pack too much into Wii Sports' main article. - New Age Retro Hippie (talk) (contributions) 06:54, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, this topic definitely has notability and I agree it would be a bit confusing if it was kept in the other article. This is a different game to Wii Sports, so I felt the mixing of platforms and such in that article's infobox was really confusing. I'm currently looking at expanding the reception section, but once it's released, I guess we could add small segments for each sport.  Dark Toon Link Heyaah! 07:50, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I support it too. Partially because there's already so much at the prior articles, and partially because I'm certain the remakes have, and will definitely in the future, bring up much commentary/coverage based on its new cost structure, and how well these "casual" games hold up beyond the initial Wii craze around the 2006-09 period. Sergecross73   msg me   18:25, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Developed by Namco Bandai?
Regarding this, I'd just like to clarify a few things. I doubt NAL would confuse Smash Bros. with Wii Sports, especially since it's way too early for them to bother getting the former classified. Secondly, NAL always list their games as Multi-platform, ever since around 2006 I believe. Any random 3DS or Wii U game from Nintendo is listed as multi-platform, which I believe is simply so they don't have to get games re-classified everytime they re-release them. Super Mario Bros. has the same classification used in its 3DS VC release as was in the Wii one, but if you look before that there was a GBA classification before that, so since then, I think they found it easier to call everything a multiplat and avoid having to pay the expensive fee again, so hence that wasn't an error. Also, the 'very mild impact violence' bit is obviously the boxing. Smash Bros. wouldn't be G, and the online caution bit is due to the exchange of player-written messages. Is there a source saying the classification was an error? Because surely Nintendo would've noticed and had it fixed/re-classified. Maybe.

However, we don't have a completely reliable source saying it was Namco Bandai either, just a few smaller sites making the observation I did. So, I guess I won't re-add it, since we don't have complete confirmation and the source was challenged.  Dark Toon  Link  01:56, 20 October 2013 (UTC)


 * It is developed Namco. I've reverted the edit. And User:NOAWiki, "research a bit more next time". It would be so much easier if some people on wikipedia weren't so arrogant.-- Arkhandar ( Talk • Contribs ) 14:48, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Do you have an actual news site reporting this? Because some of the press copies might have it on the title screen credits. I'm not sure we should re-add it until absolute confirmation, since the slightly shaky source was challenged.  Dark Toon  Link  22:30, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

NAL has made errors before. They classified Brain-Age: Concentration Training as an Intelligent Systems game for example. The author listings are not uniform by any means. Only time will tell if and what involvement Namco-Bandai has on Wii Sports Club, but I see irresponsible tags of "co-developers" all the time. For example, recently HexaDrive posted a Wind Waker HD scribe on their works page and everyone jumped the gun on listing them the "developer" or "co-developer". Meanwhile, it turns out 2 measly hexadrive employees assisted Digitalscape on the texture refinement. Digitalscape is the same company hired by every Japanese developer for small polish jobs like that. There are millions of small support companies on every video game, it doesn't mean you list them as co-developers. Things should be actually researched and fact checked, especially if they are out of the ordinary. NOAWiki (talk) 18:02, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
 * NAL have made errors on many things before, but I just wanted to point out I don't believe this was confusion with Smash Bros..  Dark Toon  Link  22:30, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Final word as provided by the Iwata Asks] is that Namco Bandai did contribute.  Dark Toon  Link  06:06, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Please edit the Post release section
Hello, not many improvements have been made in the section titled "Post-Release." Please help find more sources, and please edit the chart that I have inserted. Together, we can improve this article. Thank you, -Leo Aguado (talk) 22:47, 9 February 2021 (UTC)