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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.

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…

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