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Mario Tennis Aces demo goes live later today

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Mario Tennis: Aces will be launching near the end of this month, on June 22, but if you're excited to try the game out before it releases, Nintendo has you covered. A demo for the game has been available to download on the Nintendo eShop for Switch owners, and later today, you'll be able to finally try out Ace's offline and online gameplay modes.

For those in European/UK territories, you'll be able to access the game at 3 pm BST, and will run to June 3 at 11:59 pm.

North American players can start playing from 9 pm PDT until 11:59 on June 3.

Those that play the demo and eventually purchase the game when it releases will get a bonus classic costume for Mario.
 
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Progress... I want to play more ;O;
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Sonic Angel Knight said:
Time for mario tennis, wish me luck :)
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Nice, it's playable earlier than expected. I've only had time to do some CPU matches so far, but this game feels amazing to play even then. Controls are tight, music and sound effects on point, and Mario and co have never looked so detailed.
 
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Absolutely loving the game so far.

As someone who loved the older GameCube era Mario sports games, this is a return to form imo. Camelot absolutely did terrible with Mario Sports Superstars, and they dropped the ball with Ultra Smash, but this game has me hooked. Totally sold on it.
 
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I had a really good time, but most players I fought were really, really bad. Maybe a network issue? It was slowing down at times...
I also didn't notice many players using the new features. Especially the risky one (already forgot the name) that you use by tilting R.

But the only guys who gave me some kind of challenge were in the final round :/
 
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deinonychus71 said:
I had a really good time, but most players I fought were really, really bad. Maybe a network issue? It was slowing down at times...
I also didn't notice many players using the new features. Especially the risky one (already forgot the name) that you use by tilting R.

But the only guys who gave me some kind of challenge were in the final round :/
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I think that is the result of the demo being available to literally everybody with a Switch. You will have an overwhelming amount of players with little to no interest in the game aside from it being free. If Nintendo instead offered the pre-release to people who pre-order, you would be mostly left with players who take the game seriously enough to learn and improve over time.

Maybe as time passes, the hype will die down and the weaker players will move on so the pre-release tournaments will become more competitive.
 
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Chary said:
Absolutely loving the game so far.

As someone who loved the older GameCube era Mario sports games, this is a return to form imo. Camelot absolutely did terrible with Mario Sports Superstars, and they dropped the ball with Ultra Smash, but this game has me hooked. Totally sold on it.
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100% agree, I kept playing until I unlocked all the characters and then kept playing for a good couple hours after that (because everyone knows Chain Chomp is a boss). Definitely a buy.
 
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Zanoab said:
I think that is the result of the demo being available to literally everybody with a Switch. You will have an overwhelming amount of players with little to no interest in the game aside from it being free. If Nintendo instead offered the pre-release to people who pre-order, you would be mostly left with players who take the game seriously enough to learn and improve over time.

Maybe as time passes, the hype will die down and the weaker players will move on so the pre-release tournaments will become more competitive.
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For what it's worth, there are some incredibly good players on the demo. You'll generally see them in semi finals and finals, so just beat up the weaker ones and work your way to a good match lol
 
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the_randomizer said:
Makes me wonder why Nintendo screwed up the last iteration but did well with this one.
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Some end-of-life Wii U titles got screwed by the fact Nintendo *already knewù* the Wii U was a flop as early as 2013 and were focusing their efforts on Switch R&D and Switch game development. As a result, some 2015 and 2016 titles, like Star Fox Zero, Mario Party 10, and Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash, were presumably given to less talented teams, and in the end got screwed up badly.
 
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StarTrekVoyager said:
Some end-of-life Wii U titles got screwed by the fact Nintendo *already knewù* the Wii U was a flop as early as 2013 and were focusing their efforts on Switch R&D and Switch game development. As a result, some 2015 and 2016 titles, like Star Fox Zero, Mario Party 10, and Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash, were presumably given to less talented teams, and in the end got screwed up badly.
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They were better off not making those games IMO.
 
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This game is sooooo bad ...

In the offline training it was "okay" but I already got pissed avout all those stupid slow motion and super skill stuff :/
Havin one "super attack" or whatever is okay but this is to much nonsense for me and online it got so extremely wobbly and laggy.

They should do something like the GBA Mario Tennis and Mario Golf adding rpg elements and make a nice offline story mode than I might be buying one of those again but this ? no thanks

Not even worth pirating.
 
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