Mario Tennis Fever preview: Mario’s sports game curse might finally be over

The Nintendo Switch generation sent many long-running Nintendo series to new heights, but it wasn’t quite as kind to Mario’s athletic ambitions. Mario Tennis Aces, Mario Golf: Super Rush, and Mario Strikers: Battle League were all varying degrees of fine; each one played well enough but struggled to evolve familiar gameplay. If that’s going to change in the Switch 2 generation, Nintendo will need to come out swinging with the console’s first Mario sports game: Mario Tennis Fever.