Mario Tennis Fever Is Good… But Not $70 Good - NVC 799

Nintendo Voice Chat

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Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Mario Tennis Fever is a fun, solid Mario sports game, but it doesn’t live up to Nintendo’s promise of “variable pricing” for its games. This week, join Logan Plant and Brian Altano as Logan shares his thoughts on Fever, which leads into a wider discussion about Nintendo’s pricing strategy this generation. Then, Logan played Pokemon Pokopia at a preview event, and he’s super impressed with everything he saw! Stick around to hear Brian’s impressions of Dragon Quest VII Reimagined and all the juicy details from Nintendo’s latest quarterly financial report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on Nintendo Voice Chat, we played Mario Tennis Fever and Pokemon Popopia.
0:06.0	We'll talk all about it.
0:07.1	Plus, the new quarterly financial results are in.
0:10.2	NVC starts right now.
0:15.4	You've switched to Nintendo Voice Chat for the week of February 12th, 2026.
0:23.4	I'm Logan Plant, joined this week just by Brian Altano.
0:25.9	What's up, Brian?
0:26.9	How are you?
0:28.2	Doing good.
0:29.0	I know you're a little sick, but I am.
0:30.9	I'm powering through it.
0:32.5	Yeah.
0:33.0	So if you've heard me on Beyond this week and then on NBC this morning and then I'll be on another PlayStation show later today. Thank you for putting up with me, all of you. Yeah, we're always happy to. Yeah, everyone's out this week. Seth's on assignment, Reb is at Dice. Jada is still at IGN. I've seen your comments. She still works at IGN. She's just too busy right now to be on podcast, but we hope to see her again on NBC soon. So just me and Brian this week to talk about Pokemon Pocopia, Dragon Quest 7 reimagined, the quarterly financials, which we're very excited to get to. But we'll start with Mario Tennis Fever, which is out today. I reviewed it. I gave it a 7. You can go check that out, up on IGN.
1:10.9	And Brian, this game is a, it's a Mario sports game.
1:13.6	It's a fun Mario sports game.
1:16.0	It doesn't quite take the steps forward that I kind of was hoping and thought it was going
1:20.7	to based on the really great trailers that they were putting out ahead of time.
1:25.4	And that comes down to just a lot of the single player content being, ranging from fine to really, really bad at times. And so it's just kind of like what you expect for Mario Sports. If you have friends to play with, if you want to play online, it's good. It's a really good time. But if you're looking for anything beyond that, you're not really going to get it here. Does it feel to you like this has
1:44.2	sort of been like the running theme with Mario sports games for quite a while now where I think that
1:48.5	like it was the exception, not the rule that they had really great single player campaigns back
1:53.7	of the day, but there was just enough of them to kind of set the bar high where people just were like,
1:59.6	why isn't this as good as it used to be?
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