Building comparison
head to head
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic GamesvsWii Sports Resort
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
Execution · Twitch Chaos
An Olympic minigame collection testing short bursts of motion-control timing.
Wii Sports Resort
Execution · Pure Mechanics
Island-themed collection of twelve motion-controlled sports showcasing the Wii MotionPlus accessory.
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games leans Execution (Twitch Chaos); Wii Sports Resort leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic GamesWii Sports Resort
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 6
Wii Sports Resort leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
Waggle timing and button rhythm decide each event
Wii Sports Resort
MotionPlus precision in swordplay, archery and bowling
Reads2 vs 2
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
Party opponents are barely predictable or worth predicting
Wii Sports Resort
Local versus duels involve mild feinting
Variance3 vs 2
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
Event RNG and motion-control noise add slop
Wii Sports Resort
Slight physics and CPU pattern randomness
Optimization2 vs 3
Wii Sports Resort leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
Per-event tricks are learned in minutes
Wii Sports Resort
Each event has small learnable technique optima
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.