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Basketball cover artvsWii Play cover art

BasketballvsWii Play

Basketball leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Wii Play leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION5 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
BasketballWii Play

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads4 vs 2

Basketball leans harder on reads: Against a human, anticipating drives matters

Variance1 vs 2

Wii Play leans harder on variance: Find Mii crowds and target spawns randomise lightly

Optimization2 vs 2

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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