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Nintendo is releasing a free summer update for Nintendo Switch Sports, bringing new features to the football and volleyball modes.
The summer update launches on July 27th, at 02:00 (BST). And it will add leg strap functionality, which you can use while playing football and volleyball. That means you can really get kicking, which presents a brand-new threat to any nearby television or, indeed, people. (Depending on how the game is going, you may wish to kick your adversary.)
You will also have the Rocket Serve and Slide Attack moves added to volleyball. And the Pro League will bring S Rank and ∞ Rank for online players.
Nintendo announced Nintendo Switch Sports back in February this year. In Nintendo fashion, the game came out only a couple of months later, on April 29th. The game featured six sports to play: bowling, tennis, football, badminton, volleyball, and chanbara—in other words, swordplay.
The game was a successor to the mightily successful Wii Sports. In VideoGamer’s review of that game, Andrew Vandervell said:
“It may not win any awards for the best looking or sounding game but it’s great pure fun, and is instantly accessible to pretty much anyone. We all know roughly how to swing a tennis racket, or bowl a bowling ball—even if we haven’t done either before—and the Wii Remote does a great job of recreating the sensations of the real thing by being neither too accurate nor too forgiving, but just right.”
