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Meta’s mixed-reality attempt at a Wii Sports knockoff is coming

A picture of a person wearing an orange longsleeve shirt, jeans, and a Quest headset, swinging a virtual bowling ball toward a floating image of a bowling alley.
Home Sports remembers that bowling was the best part of Wii Sports. | Image: Meta

A new game called Home Sports is coming to the Meta Quest 3 and 3S on December 11th, and from its aesthetic to its music, this $19.99 title is clearly trying to be the Wii Sports (or Nintendo Switch Sports if you like) for mixed reality.

The Home Sports Logo (top) and the Wii Sports (bottom) logo compared. Both names feature a bluish gradient going from a darker color to a lighter color from the bottom left to top right. Both have smaller text on top, with SPORTS in big letters on the bottom.
Images: Meta / Nintendo
That logo looks very familiar.

Like Nintendo’s simplistic motion control-based sports series, Home Sports offers several games: hockey, badminton, pickleball, mini-golf, and bowling. It’s playable solo and multiplayer, where your Meta avatar represents you in a match. Meta says the game can adapt to your play space, but it also uses the Quest boundaryless mode for those with access to wide-open spaces.

A blatant knockoff of Nintendo’s Sports series it may be, but I’m not mad.

It’ll be hard to replicate the crucial component of a group of people holding Wii remotes and watching each other fail at bowling. However, this could be a good time, assuming that developer Revolution Games otherwise got the feel right and you have enough headsets to go around.