Nintendo is missing out on such a great opportunity and NEEDS to bring back Mario Super Sluggers

Looking strictly at the numbers, the MLB and baseball as a whole is growing at an unbelievable rate right now.Yes obviously baseball has always been America's past time but it has been exploding recently, as well as in Japan. The reason why I bring up Japan is because another thing they share in common with the US is, they LOVE Nintendo. Mario, Pokemon, Zelda, you name it, both countries love it.

Not to mention the 2nd Mario movie released into theaters and hit a complete home run at the box office. I saw it and thought it was a fun movie, and the asshole critics who went and saw it expecting it to be absolute cinema are idiots. But back to the main point of this, BRING. BACK. MARIO SUPER SLUGGERS.

Mario Super Sluggers was a game for the Nintendo Wii and even to this day is still popular as ever. There are legitimate competitive leagues for this game. It had an unreal character selection, great ballparks (with Bowser Jr's playroom being my personal favorite), and the best part an awesome story mode. You actually went around this baseball island doing challenges and beating enemies to unlock characters and build a team to play against Bowser. It was absolute peak.

But the best part of the game were the controls, with it being on the Nintendo Wii, it was motion controlled based. You were swinging the remote like a bat and pitching a baseball, not sitting down with a controller rotting. This definitely made it more competitive and the thing is, you can do the SAME THING with the Nintendo Switch! The controllers are smaller but work the same way if not better than the Wii. 

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If they brought this back, there is no way in hell it isn't an absolute smash hit. Some of the best games Nintendo has ever brought out are its sports video games. From Mario at the Olympic games, Wii Bowling, and Mario Golf, they're so simple yet so much fun. I want to hit nukes with Funky Kongs surfboard on my Nintendo Switch, make it happen.