The news swiftly travelled across the community, with industry observer Stealth, for example, tweeting that “Sports Story is out now!” Stealth discussed how “this is an enormously huge independent release for the holidays. Golf Story was fantastic, and Sports Story is even more ambitious.”
“It was shadow dropped, but once Nintendo announced this five-day indie announcement event on Monday, we all kind of just thought it would premiere Thursday or Friday,” Stealth said in response to a follower who pointed out how “they shadow dropped it.” However, the industry observer noted, “still enormous for the holiday weekend!”