Nintendo Switch Sports Resort is sitting on top of the Switch 2 eShop chart. Nintendo Everything's ranking for October 25 has the motion-control sports collection holding off Call of Duty for the top spot, which is either a heartwarming throwback or an alarming sign for the shooter genre, depending on how much you enjoy waving a controller around.

The reviews arriving alongside it make the chart position look less like a fluke. Game Rant's write-up singles the game out for making "great use of the Switch 2's motion controls," and the emphasis is on feel rather than sheer content volume — swinging, rolling and lobbing instead of thumbstick nudging.

Switch Sports Resort Holds Off Call of Duty on Switch 2 Charts
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Depth is where the Wii Sports Resort playbook shows. TheGamer has already mapped all 12 hidden targets in archery, scattered across every range — the same "there's more here than the tutorial admits" trick that kept the series' predecessor in living rooms for years. Polygon went further, ranking every sport in the game from worst to best and still finding room for it in its 25 best Switch 2 games of 2026.

Nintendo Everything's impressions piece rounds out the coverage, and the tone across outlets is consistent: this is a sequel that knows exactly what it is. Wuhu Island nostalgia, motion tracking that behaves, a stack of sports that are easy to start and quietly hard to master.

Keep the chart in perspective, though. An eShop ranking is a weekly snapshot of a storefront with a thinner library than the PlayStation or Xbox shops, and Nintendo gives its own games prominent placement. Beating Call of Duty on Nintendo's store in late October is a real result; it is not a global sales chart.

The timing is the funny part. The same week brought reports that hackers had jailbroken the Switch 2 and begun dumping games online — the kind of story that normally eats every headline going. A family sports collection outselling a shooter while the platform's piracy drama rumbles on says something about who actually buys Nintendo hardware.

The formula hasn't changed much in twenty years: approachable sports, motion controls, a bright island, and a group of people in one room. Nintendo keeps shipping it because it keeps working, and the Switch 2 chart is the receipt.