WorthPlaying: "2K Sports' Top Spin 3 for the Wii is proof positive that console sales numbers in the current generation are not the best determinant in going after total market coverage. Further, in the Wii Sports pack-in title, the inclusion of simple, fun and, back then, truly unique tennis and golf Wiimote-based games have unfortunately opened the door for a parade of Wii sports titles featuring anything you can swing. The foremost problem is that the Wii Sports game included with all Wii consoles is really the only Wii sports title to feature something akin to swinging; almost every other studio has created its own definition of what it means "to swing" a racquet, club, bat, two-by-four with a nail through it, or what have you.
There's actually some good reason for this. All slights about lazy, sofa-hugging gamers aside, gamers are indeed accustomed to settling down for play sessions relaxed in physical posture, if not in mind. If you have to move all the furniture in the living room and go through an upper-body workout not entirely unlike a real tennis match, just for two players to have a go at Top Spin 3 or any other racquet sport, you're going to lose a lot of buyers right there. Instead, we get numerous variations of motion, from hacking to slashing, to other sorts of things instructed by nebulous, confusing tutorials that read something like, Pull the Wii Remote back, then push it forward, then swing the Wii Remote down. Am I playing tennis or fending off a midnight burglar with a hastily grabbed kitchen knife?"
